The five-year, Trump-initiated persecution of Hunter Biden seems to have ended yesterday. It looks like Hunter will plead guilty to two counts of misdemeanor tax non-filing and one probably dismissed count of weapons possession by a druggie.
Republicans have been frothing at the mouth to make him the lynchpin in a massive anti-conservative crime conspiracy. But these relatively minor infractions, which legal analysts say are so rare that they would never have been charged if Hunter’s last name weren’t Biden, were all that Republicans could get—from a *Trump-appointed prosecutor* in Delaware.
Not a massive international conspiracy to take down Republicans, sell sex slaves, defraud the nation of Ukraine, or impose liberal ideas by government fiat. Not, in short, a treacherous anti-conserative cabal run secretly by his father, the president of the United States.
Republicans have been tripping over their own feet for decades now. The accusations they constantly make against Democrats are outrageously beyond belief, the stuff of bad fiction. And when they have the muscle to try to put the screws to Democrats, it always evaporates in puffs of Republican hot air.
It’s reached a point that this is all Republicans do, twenty-four hours a day. They try to prosecute Democrats for the most outlandish crimes imaginable. They don’t do any public work anymore. Instead they keep proposing stupidly transparent unjust laws that will punish Democratic politicians and the people support them.
It’s obsessive behavior. They can’t drop it for a second. What is wrong with them?
I said in a previous post that Republicans are worse people than Democrats. They are twisted by their deep fears of change and insecurity. To assuage those fears, they will do well nigh anything, no matter how unjust, corrupt, vicious, or deluded.
That’s why they can’t stop. And that’s why their charges against Democrats get more fantastical every time they make up a new one. They’re such bad people that they have to continually cover up just how bad they really are. And they’re such bad people that the only way they can think of to hide it is to claim that their enemies are at least as bad as they are, but preferably much, much worse.
If Republicans want to take away women’s rights to reproductive autonomy, then Democrats must want to groom children for pedophiles. If Republicans want to cut all government programs that help anyone who needs help, then Democrats must be eating babies. If Republicans want to gerrymander congressional districts to prevent the majority from actually controlling Congress, then the Democrats must be manipulating the mainstream media to conduct completely unjust witch hunts against completely innocent Republicans.
It’s all delusion. Delusion caused by the fear gnawing at their souls. For them, their fear justifies anything. Just look at the stand-your-ground laws that Republicans love. Now they are morphing into kill-if-you’re-afraid laws. Look at the woman who shot through a closed the door because the people on the other side of it were black. No doubt she’s going to claim that she was justified in doing so because she was afraid.
So, as I said, the only way degenerate Republicans can imagine to convince others that they’re not bad people is to show that they’re enemies are worse people. This itself is degenerate because there is a much better way to show that you’re not a bad person.
The better way is obvious. Just be a better person.
But Republicans cannot do that. It lights up all their fears. If they were to try to be better people, they would first have to admit that they’re not perfect people. That would trigger a whole bunch of fears, because if they’re not exceptionally good people, then what have they been up to all this time except bad things?
But even if they were to accept that they need to improve, they would then have to work on their inner lives. They would have to examine their real motives. They would have to face the common human condition that envelops all of us—our ignorance. And that stirs up even more Republian fears. They can’t be ignorant. That would make them wrong. And that would make them bad. Oh, but wait—that’s a presupposition of accepting the need to improve.
We are all trapped in the downward spiral of conservative self-delusion. Because they are bad people, because they’re captive to irrational and delusional fears, they keep doing worse and worse things. And the more apparent it is to the world that their actions are bad, the more they double down on them because they can’t admit that they’re bad. Decent people can’t believe that we are caught in their self-destructive cycle of fear, response, fear, response, and so on.
But this where we are. The whole nation is trapped in this psychological self-destructive decline of bad people becoming worse. It’s hard to grasp rationally. Why can’t they just see what thy’re doing to themselves and either stop it themselves or get help from someone who knows how help them?
It’s not my habit to talk up compassion for “conservatives.” But it’s just a fact that all of us are inclined toward this kind of self-deception. Think of a bad habit that you have. You know that you should not do it, but when it comes back to tempt you, you find yourself giving in.
The difference between a decent person and a Republican is there a decent person feels bad about not resisting the temptation. He or she may even make a vow never to give in to it again.
Republicans do not feel bad. Republicans feel perfectly justified to engage in their political bad habits. They express that self-justification in attacks on their enemies—no matter how ludicrous, childish, outrageous, or just plain stupid the justifications are.
Look, the rest of us can see how degenerate Republicans have become. They’re driving down a chute to hell with their hands on throttle, increasing the velocity with every inch of ground covered. Why should the rest of us have to go along for the infernal ride?
Because too many Republicans are in positions of power, where they can excuse their fellow Republicans for their outrageously degenerate behavior. The rest of us can see that. Their perverted attachment to Trump is more than enough evidence to condemn their political bad habits and their twisted souls.
The majority of us can see just how deranged Republicans have become. Before the American Constitution was invented, the only way a majority could depose a tyrannical and deranged minority was to revolt. But the Framers gave us a peaceful way to get rid of minority degenerates who have managed to grasp enough control to be able to inflict their will on the majority of decent people. They gave us the vote.
Why do you think Republicans are doing their damnedest to stop Democrats from voting and to figure out ways to overturn votes that go against them? Because they know that it’s the way the majority can have it will. And it’s quite clear to them that the majority will is not their will.
It’s clear as day. Republicans are worse people than Democrats. The rest of us, decent Americans, just need to face up to that fact and take away their power at the ballot box before they consolidate it so much that the majority can no longer squash them.
Yes, I said squash them. It’s gotten way past the point where one can expect the slightest simulacrum of reasonable, rational citizenship from Republicans. They have become bugs, cockroaches leeching off the body politic. The only way left to deal with them is the squash them.
We may not be able to eradicate Republican vices from the human heart. But if we squash enough of them, those who are left will just be a nuisance rather than an existential threat. They will no longer be about to overwhelm us with their numbers and force us to behave badly just by infesting the halls of power.
So, the advice to decent Americans remains the same. We must get every last person we can to the voting booths and vote the bastards out.
Stop the infestation and get back to a bug-free democracy.
It a race now. We either get to the polls before the bugs eat them or the cockroaches overrun America.
I hate cockroaches.
Don’t you?
Yes, Tommy. It looks like Republicans just can't resist projecting their deviant souls onto others. They also seem to be unaware that the rest of us decent people can see them doing it!
Thanks, Gloria. Much appreciated!