Republicans - There is no bottom. [View all]

[Freelancer]

I got a forward today from a cousin -- a pediatric nurse. It contained the worst, most insulting "jokes" about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez you can imagine. The forward's list of recipients included 20 people -- some professionals with good educations -- mostly my relatives.

We keep thinking that Republicans being called out on using fascist rhetoric, or being shown that what they're doing mirrors lead-ups to horrible periods in human history will make them wake up and put on the brakes. It never does. All they know how to do is double, triple and quadruple down.

It's as though their entire plan is to roll out the worst ideas humanity ever had just to rub them in the faces of anybody reaching upward. Honestly, who doubts that if they started handing out free brown shirts at T rallies, that even if the attendees were told what that hearkened back to, they would still wear them -- with even more contempt than before. They would revel in it.

I guess what I'm saying is that the idea that shame, or knowledge, or a disclosure, or a resignation would work this all out has gone from me suddenly. I was relying heavily on that idea and don't see a fallback. People who have elevated callousness to an art form are coming -- not for me/us in particular, but for our ideas of the future. How do we live if they pull those down?

I'm truly scared.