America has a real problem, and it is the absolute insanity of the political right in this country. If this group were diagnosed as an individual they would have a prety complex case history. Delusions of granduer, megalomania, a persecution complex, sociopath tendencies, free floating anxieties, pathological lying, and paranoid schizophrenia all fit the political right. They manifest all these characteristics in abundance.
The right wing has become a pack of screeching loonies who have gone completely over the edge, howling insane blither about Obama’s birth certificate and “government death panels” and such. Every day finds them blithering about one absolutely delusional fantasy or another. They are ready to secede one day and proclaim themselves the only American patriots the next. They wave the flag constantly, but are mostly too cowardly to serve in the military. Such service is beneath them and they would never let their children go off to fight the wars they proudly pretend to support. When it comes time to pay for the fiascos their insipid president got our troops engaged in, these hypocrites demand A TAX CUT. All the while the rightwingers blither that the Democrats are useless spendthrifts.
The Democrats also want to intrude into their lives with things like more choices for healthcare with greater consumer protections, but they see it differently. That’s why they insisted on the Patriot Act, to lessen government intrusion into our lives. They also want to keep the horrid Federal Gumment out of peoples’ bizness by: banning abortions, the morning after pill, gay marriage, keeping sodomy laws, and generally having the gumment legislate their false brand of morality.
Right wingers really fear government intrusion. Why no government should be allowed to enforce standards for clean air and water, uncontaminated foods, pharmaceuticals that actually work, labor laws to protect real people, hurricane relief, or any such stupidity. Instead the agencies that perform these duties should be turned over to incompetents and shills for the industry that they oversee. Why every good right wing nut job knows that government is not supposed to be about making America a better place for all PEOPLE. The gumment should instead be the agency to insure profit for the few. Instead of helping people with mortgages the gumment should insure the profits of the banks.
Those few are better than the rest of us. Why if we just shut the fuck up and do as our betters tell us then all problems would be solved. Bush didn’t completely fuck up the whole Iraq thing. Democrats did! They forced him to do political things he didn't need to do if he didn't have to answer to pussies who oppose torture and bombing the shit out of everything. Hell they even kept him from attacking the REAL enemy: Iran!
“Conservatives” are better than the rest of us, or so they delude themselves. The reality is quite different. Republicans were once the business party; the party of getting things done, building factories, creating jobs, turning America into an economic power house, and enriching themselves by making America stronger. Todays’ Republicans ( with the exception of the decent folk who still hold these values) are a pack of scum who believe themselves entitled to the good life because they are better and they are American. And these folks don’t care how many sand-n***ers need to die to keep gas at $2.00 a gallon because as Americans they deserve it. Why it in the Constitution and the Babble. Instead of actually working for a living, they prefer to fuck over other people, then convince themselves that the other guy deserved it. Hell it isn’t corruption or fraud, it’s just bizness.
Mostly the wing nuts are mad. They can’t blame themselves. It’s gotta be someone else’s fault that they don’t have that great job or million dollar business. They are mad because they failed. Personally their failure can’t be because they are drunks, or stupid, or poor business people, or such sociopaths that they couldn’t lead a Boy Scout troop in a stick rubbing roundup. Nope, it’s the gumment’s fault. Why it’s the gumment’s fault that the wife keeps doing all those stupid things no matter how many times you hit her. And Junior is a sociopath because the liberal society made him that way, despite all the two fisted loving and twice a week church attendance. It’s gumment’s fault ‘cause if those f**kin’ liberal ass Family Services people would stay out of it…
And the banker says he is a victim of gumment. He didn’t get fired for fraud and corruption and bad investments. Nope, he got fired because the gumment forced him to sell mortgages ( that earned him HUGE bonuses) to people who weren’t creditworthy. The gumment made him okay all those ninja loans. ( I heard this from a banker who I know is corrupt). And the developer isn’t bankrupt because he kept building McMansions on money he got from his corrupt banker friend and overextended himself. Nope! All the bribes to local officials to put in free of charge sidewalks and streetlights and sewers and stuff were supposed to insure he would always be rich, but it’s the gumment’s fault he went broke.
The scum on the right is mad. Why? Because they are better than everyone else and they didn’t fuck up America. It isn’t their fault. Why we should all shut the fuck up and let them run things as God intended. Why nigg (oops, those “politically correct” liberals made it impossible to say that) all them colored folk and wimmen should just leave all the voting and supervising stuff to them guys. That’s the way god demands it! And they didn’t make this mess. Not at all. We just didn’t REALLY give them any power to change enough stuff.
Nope, even though the Republiscum have essentially run this country since 1980, it isn't their fault America is so screwed up! America should be a Norman Rockwell painting of a white guy in a suit getting his shoes shined by a darkie, and the wife putting a pie on the window ledge, and the kids flying downhill on a Radio Flyer wagon with Spot chasing them. When they open their eyes and it ain't so they seethe with anger, the anger of a paranoid-schizophrenic sociopath with megalomaniacal tendencies and a propensity to pathological lying and self-delusion!
(I’m mad because I have heard just one too many lying scumbag on the right blame his fuckin’ failures on people who had nothing to do with it. This scumbag was a entitlement junkie and a lay about for years. He always got food stamps and whatever welfare he could. He always had a great scheme to make it rich one day. Always he went to family to finance yet another stupid fly-by-night fiasco. But once he got lucky. He had an opportunity to buy a business even he couldn’t fuck up.
So the family gave him the money to buy the business. This was money people had worked YEARS to save. They’d been working stiffs who built cars or labored in grimy factories. They gave because they thought that THIS time they could really help. Well they did. The scumbag got in just at the start of the housing boom. He went from being a jerk-off shyster to a neer-do-well businessman. He went from being a true liberal to a maniac rightwinger in ten seconds. Why because the whole construct fit his need to excuse himself from all his lies.
You see he didn’t pay his family back. He screwed ‘em all. When the business made money ( it couldn’t fail!) as part of the housing boom, he didn’t repay those who’d helped him. Instead he became a fancy ass Republican, a “self made man” as he told everyone. And he convinced no one more than himself!
But he does deserve a little credit. He got lucky at the height of the building boom and sold the business for a hefty profit. He did pay back - after ten years - the original sum he had borrowed ( with no interest or profit he promised). Problem is he bought a fancy house and the bust came. The Real Estate Bubble and the Credit Bubble that had allowed a scumbag to do well burst. His house is worth less than half the mortgage and his investments went down in value, not paying enough to cover his costs of being a neer-do-well. So now he complains that Obama is to blame. He did everything right and the gumment cheated him out of everything! Meanwhile the family membes who lent him his money are doing okay despite hard times. They are lucky enough to have jobs, and houses near the end of the mortgage, and a little money set aside. Instead of whining they just keep going to work. For them life was supposed to be just that. For the neer-do-well life has made him a victim.
He should be the Fox TV poster boy for the right wing nutjobs. They are mad and it is YOUR fault that their lives and America didn’t turn out as planned!)
Post Script: For Vic and the other honest Republicans out there:
These wingnuts identift themselves as "Republican" and "Conservative" which does NOT mean that they represent all of either group or that I see all Conservatives and Republicans as wingnuts. Anyone who has read my blogs over the last two years knows I repeatedly say "Give me back a Republican Party I can vote for!"