Mentally Ill Republicans
By Jon Faulkner
Created Jun 29 2008 - 4:53pm
It's not difficult to make the case that conservative republicans suffer
from a form of mental illness. Americans have watched them embrace family
values and discover ethics, while stealing an election and contriving the
cir***stances for starting wars. They have worked tirelessly to undermine
the American Constitution while frantically waving the flag. They firmly
believe in the privatization of government and consistently ignore the
inconvenient history of the American taxpayer bailout of one
failed/scandalized cor****ation after the next. These things, by and of
themselves, don't make republicans soft in their heads, but as Einstein
said
of insanity, it's "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results."
There are no practical reasons that Americans, unless they are
independently
wealthy, or industrial capitalists, should belong to the republican party.
In a healthy, freedom loving democracy, republicanism would not be
tolerated, and its inherents would be shunned like the plague. One has
only
to ask, "Just what is it that conservative republicans have ever done for
the collective good of the nation?" If a rejoinder is slow in coming it's
understandable, because the answer is, not much, if anything. Republican
mental illness manifests itself in the duality that conservatives want to
turn the clock back to mom, apple pie, and that good, ol' time religion,
while unmercifully exploiting every natural resource until the ravaged
earth
will no longer sup****t life. Turning yet another profit takes precedence
over their own survival. This is not a healthy, mental state.
To attain public office, conservative republicans must lie. The truth must
be disguised because their motives for leader****p rest solely on their
ambition to material gain. Sharing the nation's vast wealth among its
people
is anathema to republicans. The idea so repulses them that their willing
to
practice any deception that will tilt the playing field in their
direction.
FDR personifies their hatred of government acting in the interests of all
Americans. Conservative republicans despised FDR because of all
presidents,
it was FDR who first showed Americans that government is a tool that
properly used, can and will improve the lives of all citizens. A rock
ribbed
republican will always argue that FDR was a socialist, or worse, a
communist. The many successful government programs that were initiated
under
FDR are dismissed as "touchy feely, warm and fuzzy" examples of wasteful,
liberal spending.
Even while FDR pulled the nation out of its economic morass, republicans
never tired of criticizing him, thundering to anyone who would listen that
FDR was destroying the business incentive to compete. They cried copious
tears when FDR made them pay employee's a livable, minimum wage. We can't,
they howled! FDR, acting against the day's anti-trust laws, allowed
business
to stabilize prices under the condition that as their profits rose so
would
their employee's wages. The National Recovery Administration brought
business, labor and government together, and for the first time in the
nation's history, these elements found mutual ground on which to cooperate
with each other. The NRA imposed sweeping regulations on business, forcing
production standards on goods and services. Child labor laws were enacted
bringing more howls of protestation from the badly frightened republicans.
Somehow, they got over it as children re****ted to school instead of work.
They learned to read and write, add and subtract, thereby guaranteeing a
future work force of educated employees. Of course republicans, to this
day,
fail to see the point.
Upon winning office by a landslide, FDR immediately closed the nation's
banks until the U.S. Treasury could move in and supervise them. The Great
Depression was in full swing and Roosevelt, quite rightly, had
reservations
about trusting the nation's bankers whose arrogance was only exceeded by
their incompetence. Roosevelt also began the Security & Exchange
Commission,
the SEC, to keep fat cat, republican capitalists honest. His New Deal
would
redistribute wealth downward, and attempt to put the nation back on sound,
financial footing. FDR's regulations on cor****ate behavior kept such
things
as today's outrageous fuel costs from happening.
Persistent poverty in the south was met with Roosevelt's Resettlement
Administration, Farm Security Administration, Rural Electrification
Administration and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Southern farmers could
bring their products to market, and enhance their lives and their work
with
electricity. The school lunch program, new roads into rural areas, and
reforestation began having significant, positive effects on poverty. The
democrats lost the south when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
Johnson put down his pen and said, "We have lost the South for a
generation." It seems the south should have been ashamed to inspire such a
comment, but no, racism thrives when it's seen as virtue.
Roosevelt demonstrated to Americans that government is a tool that's best
employed for improving the lives of citizens. Republicans like to call the
New Deal socialism and FDR a socialist. They pretend ignorance that
cor****ations are always the first in line, screaming for taxpayer
handouts,
when cor****ate CEO's run their companies into the ground and then walk
away
with their employee's pensions. Greed on a scale this vast can no longer
be
considered merely greed - the terrible need to take and keep taking, no
matter at who's expense, is a sure indication of an aberrant, disordered
mind.
Roosevelt brought Social Security into existence, largely eliminating
older
Americans cru****ng poverty when they could no longer work. Republicans
were
apoplectic with fury. Why should we pay one cent in taxes to help a bunch
of
old geezers who are better off dead, they asked. Elected in 1932,
Roosevelt,
by 1933 had steered the nation into a sharp, upward economic recovery.
Republicans, mentally ill and maddened by his success still, to this day,
hold a deep abiding hatred for FDR. They can't abide the thought that
wealth
could be distributed to benefit all citizens. Selfishness doesn't begin to
explain the conservative republican's fixation on material gain. Mental
aberrance does.
George Bush has been the crowning achievement of conservative
republicanism.
A dullard, who can't string a coherent sentence together, he gleefully
follows the lead of every traitorous republican who has his ear. Karl
Rove,
a fat, marshmallow, donut of a man, looks and acts exactly like someone
who
would like to get even for all the slights he had to have suffered when
young. A mental case in his own right, Rove thinks nothing of tearing down
a
nation to satisfying his grotesque egoism. Cheney's character is displayed
plainly across his face. His snarling countenance illuminates his mental
instability and his vast capacity for greed is unequaled. These mentally
abhorrent spectacles are anti-American and have fundamentally betrayed the
U.S. Constitution and every other trust they have been given. The Bush
Administration has long been a national embarrassment to the American
people. Much worse, they have shamed a great nation that was once a model
for humanity to emulate. Appointed by a rogue Supreme Court, these jokers
began sacking the U.S. Treasury from their first days in office. Their
neocon cohorts and partners in crime should invoke nothing but disgust in
the minds of all Americans.
At some point in the future Conservative Republicanism will be a distant
memory whose only remaining function will be horrifying historians.
Republicans embrace the political philosophy that wealth should be
concentrated to a few, at the expense of many. This mindset is
breathtakingly arrogant, or more accurately, is a symptom of corrupted
minds. At the top of the republican food chain exist such despicable
creatures as Richard Mellon Scaife, Rupert Murdock, The Reverend Sun Moon
and Adolph Coors, among others. Beneath them are the politicians that lick
their boots for elected office. Then come the jokers, the fools and
knaves.
Limbaugh, Coulter and Bill O'Reilly are a few such republican lapdogs who
trumpet right wing propaganda into the ears of the most gullible, the most
ignorant Americans. Rupert Murdoch, in a just world, would have his U.S.
citizen****p revoked, as would the Rev. Sun Moon. Coors, Scaife and their
ilk
have far more money than brains, and should be heavily fined every time
they
open their mouths.
Scaife and Murdoch became self appointed extensions of the U.S. Dept. of
Justice when they financed endless fi****ng expeditions into President Bill
Clinton's business dealings and *** life. The republican congress jumped
in
behind them spending millions of taxpayer dollars. They couldn't find the
dirt they longed to bury Clinton under and they finally gave up,
sputtering
and growling - mumbling curses and striking their heads - just as any
nutcase might. The Rev. Sun Moon has referred to his adopted land as
"Satan's
Harvest." This clown is allowed to own a Wa****ngton newspaper with which
he
spreads lies and propaganda. He and Murdoch, both naturalized Americans,
should be booted out of the country. Moon, a Korean, was given "lawful
permanent resident" status during the Nixon Administration. Moon bought
his
residency with the billions he has given away to republican, wingnut
causes.
Republican causes make an interesting study. They are never about
improving
the lives of Americans. They are always about forcing their whacky,
misguided beliefs on anyone stupid enough to believe them, and on getting,
and holding onto power.
The worst manifestation of republican mental illness has been the war in
Iraq. Local WalMarts across the nation reserve a wall on which they
display
the pictures of young American men and women. These children are offered
in
Iraq as George Bush cannon fodder. Their 18 and 19 year old faces gaze
back
from their ****traits. Their dress caps always seem too big for them. All
wear stern, unsmiling, expressions, to let the photographer know they are
going to kill other human beings, for God and Country, the viewer
supposes.
They joined the army to escape small town America - to serve their country
and be rewarded with the promise of free college.
They are babies. They are naïve and don't have any way to understand the
horror of war. They've watched Hollywood's less than realistic cinematic
efforts to capture the terror, the waste, the incredible devastation that
war visits on all who are touched by it. Innocent children have no hope of
equating burnt, ripped flesh, sudden death, a dying friend crying for his
mother, with Bush and his wholly contrived war. Republicans promise more
war, endless war, even a new front - this time in Iran. This is insanity
at
its worst. Republicans, and sadly many democrats, sup****t the wars and
endorse the incidental madness that spins off from them. Torture, the
suspension of Habeas Corpus, government eavesdropping on private phone
calls
and emails, above all the suspicion that is deliberately encouraged by the
nation's so called leaders who seek to divide, weaken, and in so doing
realize complete control over Americans who never seem to learn that war
is
the result of a complete failure of political leader****p.
Insanity has its own way of proliferating. While Americans continue to
sleep
through the right wing's hysteria, Condoleezza Rice imagines mushroom
clouds
sprouting over Brooklyn. Cheney's old man delusions, while conveniently
making him fantastically wealthy, nonetheless mark him as paranoiac. When
Cheney moved into the Vice President's residence at the Naval Observatory,
local and national news re****ted that strange noises could be heard coming
from inside the observatory. The noises, that according to witnesses
sounded
like digging, issued from the observatory night and day for many weeks.
Cheney, like Saddam, was preparing a deep hole in which he could hide and
feel safe. Freud would no doubt have some interesting comments on Cheney's
tunneling compulsions.
As for Bush, he's not crazy at all. He's not smart enough, and lacks the
imagination to be crazy. He's a comical figure. He offers his half-witted
observations, sincerely believing he's the big man. He hasn't understood
that the U.S. Presidency is not an office for his macho fantasies to gain
substance. The poor bastard is so stupid he can't feel remorse, or even
connect his egoism with the dead, and those who grieve them. After his
9-11
scare, when he flew all over the country evading imaginary enemies, he
found
a persona that has always suited him. That is -"He's a cool dude in a
smooth
mood."
Those Supreme Court Justices who voted to install Junior in office should
be
unceremoniously run off when Obama gets elected. Roberts, Alito, Thomas
and
Scalia are a disgrace. All are openly partisan and their interpretations
of
the constitution may be politely described as radical. If Americans expect
to reclaim their nation they have a very long, steep road ahead of them.
The
Cor****ate Oligarchy that replaced representative government has a death
grip
on the levers of power and it has no intention of giving it up.
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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their
spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their
government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are
suffering deeply in spirit,
and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public
debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have
patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an op****tunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are
at
stake."
-Thomas Jefferson
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