Moronic. Will help them with lizard-brain base and no one else, least of all LE.
Howeverâplease proceed, felons.
The GOP has made this bed, but itâs forcing us all to lie in it.
This is a replay of the Catholic Churchâs problem. What does a pedophile have to do to be around kids legitimately? Why, become a priest, talk about our highest spiritual values, and live with impunity.
So, youâre a crook. Where do you go for opportunity? Why, the Republican Party. Put on a flag pin, question everybody elseâs patriotism, and grab with both hands.
⊠and blame the black guy who has infinitely more charm, poise, tact and intelligence in a discarded fingernail paring than the entire R party put together.
Dear Repub voters. Please support all these fine upstanding candidates in your state primaries. Also could you please encourage other unfairly disparaged past candidates such as Todd Akin and Christine OâDonnell to throw their hat into the ring and run for federal office once again. They are truly representative of todayâs Repub party.
"Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) admitted he was concerned about that chunk of the party base that wouldnât even accept legal verdicts as settled fact, but argued âgratefully I think itâs pretty smallâ in terms of the overall GOP electorate.â
Itâs as if Flake is describing that chunk of the party base as if they have some immutable attribute, rather than an authoritarian world view nurtured by his own party and the conservative media over the past three decades.
All three have largely blamed Obama for their past troubles rather than take responsibility for their actions, even when the courts have found them all guilty.
âSure I committed crimes and Iâm guilty. But if the âdeep stateâ and the black guy hadnât investigated those crimes and prosecuted me, I could have avoided all this. I mean, how fair is that? Would you want them going after you for the crimes youâve committed or would like to commit?â
As usual Republican politicians are taking advantage of something that has gone unrecognized in the larger society. We have become two different Americas. There is the America of the upper middle class and above especially those based near the centers of power and there is the America of the working and lower classes. In many ways our world is reminiscent of the world of Dickens or perhaps the early golden age.
One of the key themes of the black and brown lower class is the war between it and local law enforcement. Local law enforcement is looked on as controlling âthose peopleâ for the white establishment, not serving them. Donât kid yourself in large swaths of poor white America local law enforcement is viewed the same way. They are enforcers for the white establishment be they landlords or banks or politicians. We donât read about it because our journalists never live it. Undying racism is a tool used by conservative and liberal upper middle class politicians alike to ignore the reality that we are leaving large swaths of white America behind along with poor blacks and brown people as we divide into winners and losers. It has gotten so bad that the white elites are changing Christianity from a religion that promotes social equality into a religion that promotes class division. A lot of poor rural white school districts around the country are moving to 4 day weeks. Look at the teacher movements in Oklahoma, West Virginia and Arizona. Those teachers who are starving and the kids they are teaching are mostly white. Yet through it all the liberal press doubles down on the racism meme as a way to help keep the liberal elites, you and me, blind to the changing of America into two distinct countries one rich and the other poor.
Again it is perfectly OK for the liberal elites to âworryâ about poor downtrodden blacks because they are the folks they want to vote for them and it is perfectly OK for the conservative elites to pander to the fears of poor whites because they are the people they want to vote for them. In modern America what is not OK is actually solving the common problem of both poor whites and poor blacks, being poor.
Conservatives blaming the white law enforcement establishment for their woes is simply a shout out to poor whites who feel their law enforcement isnât really serving them, Trump has shown that this large white underbelly exists and the class division is growing.
Trumpâs shitstirring drags up the most deplorable deplorables yet!
Remember when the right complained about âMoral RelativismââŠ
Now they just beat their chests âIâm not a reprobate, youâre the reprobate⊠Deep State!â
Remember, before Obama, how perfect our country was under Dubya?
Itâs like W. Kamau Bellâs analogy of a swimming pool. If someone pees in one end of the pool, youâre still affected even if youâre at the opposite end. The proper solution is to empty and disinfect the pool.
Once again, the Party of Personal Responsibility shows its true colors.
The party of personal responsibility! Remember that? Hilarious!!
Oh, these poor, put-upon, persecuted victims of a justice system that - sob! - isnât supposed to fail those who check all the right boxes of race, class, money and position. Thatâs all this is: bitterness that the system held them accountable, while others of their ilk are still getting away with it. âItâ being something they regard as either good business practices that create jobs and generate huge returns on investment, or personal behavior that everyoneâs just lying about.
Rich people have always gotten away with things that ordinary people donât. Theyâve always gotten shorter sentences, the slap on the wrist, the second, third and fourth chances that poorer, less advantaged people hardly ever get.
When did we decide, though, that people like this should be elected to represent us, much less govern us? That their crimes are less important than their agenda? That these are âfineâ people, really they are! - truly wonderful people?
Ugh.
As usual, theyâre blaming the wrong person.
I agree with much of what you say, but there is a doctrinaire tinge to your thinking that weakens your conclusions.
For instance:
Well, no. The liberal media and the liberal elites are all over the teachersâ movements, particularly because they are in Red states, but then again, things are much worse for education, and educators, in states governed by Republicans.
Not to mention the angst about how to reach Trump voters who used to vote Democratic, which is morphing into a realization that poor and middle-class whites have in many case been abandoned by liberals who see race as the key to everythingâand go from that valid point to reason that whites are presumptively racist.
I thought conservatives supported the âRule of Law.â Silly me.
This country is collapsing. Everyone always expects a âWalking Deadâ scenario where itâs all immediate, but thatâs just a fantasy. The breakdown has been as obvious as Halleyâs Comet; stories like this are just symptoms of what is happening in real time.