I’m always astonished at the attitudes of “conservatives.” If there is one thing that American culture teaches us, it’s that assholes deserve what’s coming to them. Movies teach us that nasty, overbearing, manipulative, cheating, arrogant people deserve to get taken down. Yet “conservatives” seem to believe that such people are admirable.
And they still wonder why people don’t take them seriously?
So here we are. “Conservatives” and malicious people pretending to be “conservative” have just won a fifty-year long battle to impose their massively unpopular beliefs on the the rest of us. By gerrymandering, cheating, buying elections, and suppressing votes, they managed to get control of nearly half of Congress. And that allowed them to force Supreme Court “Justices” onto the court. Now the majority have to live with their benighted “opinions.”
So the majority now has to live with their “belief” that there is no right to privacy. And with their “belief” that women don’t have autonomy. And with their “belief” that voter suppression is just fine. And with their “belief” that corporations are people. And with their “belief” that government musn’t protect the environment.
Suddenly, every regressive gene in “conservative” DNA has been given expression in the body politic.
But that’s not enough for them. It’s not enough that they are imposing their minority, ignorant “beliefs” on the majority. They want to surfeit their hatred and vengeance on Decent America, which has always looked askance at their debased and vicious attitudes—as decent people will do when faced with maliciousness. So they are threatening even more. If they win the upcoming elections the future will be very bleak. If they have their way:
There will be no more abortions anywhere in the country for any reason, and they will rejoice over the bodies of the women who die because of their religious fury.
There will be no more fair elections in any state where “conservatives” control the legislature, and they will rejoice over their tyranny in stealing power away from the people.
There will be no more contraception available, and they will rejoice over the unwanted children that can be made to labor and die in the factories of their unrestrained capitalism.
This is just a short list—and it doesn’t even go far enough to show how completely rotten the core of Republicans is. Imagine a “Christian” theocracy in which white nationalism, racism, and violence against Democrats is all sanctioned by the state. That is the hellhole that Republicans want to live in.
Is it any wonder that I’ve been calling them “Scum” for years now?
But here is what “conservatives” don’t seem to get. Outside the red enclaves in which they never meet a non-scum person who isn’t just like them, the majority hate “conservatives” and especially Republicans.
The majority know that anyone who still supports Trump, as the vast majority of Republicans still do, is morally, intellectually, and politically corrupt.
The majority can’t stand the “beliefs” of “conservatives,” and have always been right about them when they considered them rotten, twisted, malicious, hateful scraps of human-like garbage.
And now that “conservatives” are taking their victory laps, accompanied by large doses of arrogant bullying and in-your-face taunting, the majority hates them even more. It’s not wrong to hate the hateful. They not only deserve it, they demand it, because they are, after all, hateful.
I sure hope that the majority’s hatred makes itself felt at the polls this November. Because if it doesn’t, America will fall into the hands of gleeful insurrectionists and insurrectionist enablers.
And the world will see the sunset of the Enlightenment politics that set human beings on the path to fraternity, sorority, and equality.
Michael--
I can't imagine how the lunatic, and incredibly stupid, right-wing cult in this country must look to someone who was born in another country. Even if your country of origin was not worth living in, Trumpist America will be worse, because the betrayal of America's once-great democratic ideals will plunge us into near-Nazism in short order.
I feel absolutely the same way and never expected this turn in the US political world, when I immigrated from Germany in 1985. But quickly I thought the USA is the next Rome and will fail latest by 2050. Clinton and Obam gave me hope, but since Trump I am completely lost on the USA. The GOP will steal the 2022 and 2024 elections. A fascist dictatorshipo will face us all then. Get ready or vote them all out!