Most would agree that republicans are not usually described as the warm and fuzzy people. They are not considered the “mommy” party and most republicans would say that that description is just fine with them. Most have no tolerance for anything that could possibly smack of female coddling or nurturing of the citizenry. Every man for himself and all that, rah rah. But the ironic thing here is that they’re not the stereotypical masculine party. They’re weenies. They broadcast panic like little children. The sky is falling, all will soon be lost. The Mexicans are coming, the Mexicans are coming. There’s socialist monsters under every bed and black Muslim bogymen in every closet (especially the black bogymen). Republicans are constantly spraying fear and paranoia like skunk juice. Rightly or wrongly, this is not a stereotypically male image. Why would anyone vote to put a bunch of scaredy cats in charge of anything, except maybe the back door?
Then there’s this whole republican embrace of the economic survival of the fittest doctrine. Boy they love that one. Everybody just pull themselves up by their boot straps and if you can’t, well too bad for you, guess you didn’t pull hard enough or something, too bad for you, survival of the fittest. And yet they steadfastly maintain that Darwin is a pile of crap.
Now the republican push to delegalize most forms of birth control, there’s another odd one. We have to estimate that at least 50% of the republicans are men, sperm shooting men. We just know that the over whelming majority of them are not having sex strictly for procreation purposes alone. Please. Likewise it’s fair to assume that again the over whelming majority of them are not practicing abstinence (for any reason). Very hard to believe that these married men want to risk adding more unplanned children to their families or especially that single men want to add child support to their personal budgets. Logically one would think these republican men would want to shut down this nutso delegalization thing. And one would think that the republican strategists would also want to shut it down. After all, what did the last census tell them? We are currently undergoing the browning of America. People of color are the fastest growing populations in the United States. Do republicans really want “these people” without birth control? Do they know that by in large “these people” do not like them? Are republicans that short sighted or do they just calculate that they will be dead by the time this manifests into material votes?
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Racism Alive and Well
23 MayMany people try hard to say that racists such as Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling are an aberration. That all is ok in America now, really; after all we have the black president now, twice actually, so it must be true, racism must be dead in America. What is true is that in the last two presidential elections enough non-racist Americans of all races voted and fortunately outnumbered the racists that voted. Certainly not the same as racism is in the past. One only has to look at gerrymandering to see the current strength of racism and bigotry in America. There doesn’t seem to be much debate, republicans do have the smaller party, yet they totally dominate the House. Despite getting fewer popular votes in the last election, because of gerrymandered districts they maintained control of the House. If you contort the districts to concentrate the bigots and dilute the non-bigots in the correct proportions you can steal the prize, it’s math not democracy. Not very honorable but then honor is not the objective; power, control, and ultimately money is the objective. Regardless of district manipulations it still takes a real boat load of bigots to pull this off; a handful of left-overs from a mythical by-gone era won’t cut it. Republicans understand well the potential inherent in bigotry. They already have the rich folks but to stack the numbers they really need they cultivate these bigots like sand in oysters. And bigots are an easy mark; they are so consumed with their hate for the “others” that they can even be openly lead to vote against their own self interests. And the media really needs to stop referring to these congressional republicans as ideologues. It’s dishonest and makes them (the media) complicit in promoting the scam. Call them what they are, hard core strategists protecting their individual revenue streams for as long as they possibly can. This is classic hair on the knuckles. The country be damned, the constituents be damned, it’s business, it’s about staying flush. I get it, I wish I was flush. Now if we were to follow the logic of black president = racism dead we would have to conclude that if Hillary wins the presidency then wife/girlfriend beatings in the US will cease and desist, that girls and women will no longer be sold into sex slavery in the US, that pay for women will no longer be less than that of a man, blah, blah, blah.
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Tags: Congress, Elections, Gerrymandering, Hillary Clinton, Media, Racism, republicans