I don’t hear Democrats saying often enough that, in addition to being democracy’s last stand, next month’s election is best chance we have to teach despicable Republicans a lesson they will never forget.
Every hour of every day, we see Republicans behaving in ways that are viscerally reprehensible. Taught by Trump that there are no consequences for utterly unethical behavior, Republicans actually think they win by acting like the snakes who snake on other snakes.
The only way to stop them is to teach them that scum behavior makes them lose. And the only way to do that is to make them lose.
If you belong to Decent America, you must vote only for Democrats next month, if for no other reason, to teach Republicans that
there is no reward for lying abominably and without compunction
there is no reward for threatening violence if you don’t get your way
there is no reward for using the courts to delay and obstruct judgment and punishment for crimes
there is no reward for public professions of racism
there is no reward for public professions of white supremacy
there is no reward for public professions of mad QAnon conspiracies
there is no reward for public professions of hatred
there is no reward for fake Federalist Society legal “theories” designed to destroy democracy
there is no reward for fake public professions of “Christian values”
there is no reward for planting brainwashed Federalist Society judges throughout the judicial system
there is no reward for electing a horrendous orange Mussolini-wannabe
there is no reward for braying about election fraud that has never existed
there is no reward for demanding that an orange fake president remain in office after the people turned him out
there is no reward for trying to overthrow the government to stop the rightful winner of the presidency from taking office
there is no reward for beating up and killing police officers who tried to defend the Capitol
there is no reward for boasting and bragging about fake patriotism
there is no reward for “owning the Libs”
there is no reward for tamping their feet like little baby sore losers
there is no reward for audacious, aggressive ignorance
there is no reward for trying to rig the certification of elections to overturn the will of the people
there is no reward for overt misogyny
there is no reward for harassing women
there is no reward for harassing LGBTQ+ people
there is no reward for harassing teachers
there is no reward for harassing reporters
there is no reward for harassing academics
there is no reward for harassing non-“Christians”
there is no reward for harassing non-white people
there is no reward for letting “religious” bigots discriminate against fellow citizens
there is no reward to letting “religious” bigots impose their “beliefs” on society at large
there is no reward for being loud, empty-headed bigots
there is no reward for kissing the ass of their orange demonic idol no matter how he demeans them
there is no reward for publicly testifying that they have no principle but power
there is no reward for electing to high office utterly unqualified creatures that hardly rank as human because they have dung where their reason should be
there is no reward for breaking any law that is inconvenient
there is no reward for speaking in word-salad language that doesn’t even make sense to paranoid schizophrenics
there is no reward for trying to make state legislators exempt from the judicial system so they can pass Republican friendly laws that violate state constitutions
there is no reward for packing the Supreme Court illegitimately with fake Federalist Society “justices”
there is no reward for lying about destroying women’s rights until they get the chance to do it
there is no reward for nuclear-powered hypocrisy
there is no reward for self-serving religiosity
there is no reward for enriching the rich
there is no reward for impoverishing the poor
there is no reward for bullying
there is no reward for whiney victimhood
there is no reward for worshipping guns
there is no reward for being “conservative”
Sure, we need to get out there to save democracy. Sure we need to repair the outrageous damage that Trump and his Republican criminals have already done to America.
But we also need to teach them all a lesson, namely, that when they behave like anti-social, subhuman cretins they get no reward. On the contrary, they get punishment—defeat.
Since unreasoning creatures like Republicans learn only through reward and punishment, we must teach them the lesson in the only way they might learn it.
We must make them lose, painfully.
Then, maybe, we can get on with the normal process of slowly purging noxious “conservative” beliefs from the body politic of an increasingly more perfect union.