I Loathe Republicans [View all]

[NanceGreggs]

I have berated myself over it; I have told myself I shouldn’t indulge in such negative feelings. I’ve told myself I am a better person than that. Apparently, I am not.

I loathe Republicans in office, and I loathe the people who elected them.

Year after year, I have watched them destroy this country from within.

I have listened to their sanctimonious prattle about their good family values, their Christian morals, their exemplary behaviour – lectures often delivered by thrice-married men as they stand beside their last mistress who is now their latest trophy wife.

I have heard those in office, who are pulling down six-figure salaries that include healthcare coverage, generous expense accounts and lifelong pensions ALL funded by taxpayers, admonishing those same taxpayers to tighten their belts, sacrifice, and/or simply do without “luxuries” – luxuries like decent food, healthcare, liveable housing, and a living wage.

I have watched them take funding away from the down-and-out in order to fund tax-breaks for the wealthy. I have watched them whittle away the funding for programs aimed at assisting the most vulnerable among us – the poor, the homeless, the sick, the dying – while touting their “good Christian values”. I have watched them deny funding for our veterans while they proclaim their patriotism, and plot to send more of our valiant warriors into harm’s way because their lives are less important than the profits to be realized by the big-donor corporations that ultimately line Republican pockets as a result of global conflict.

I have watched them initiate measures that make voting all but impossible for citizens who traditionally vote for “the other side”. I have watched them lie – repeatedly – in order to garner the votes of the very people whose best interests they will, and invariably do, vote against once elected.

I have watched them vote against the rights of women, children, gays/lesbians. I have watched them vote against the rights of minorities. Time and again, I have watched them vote against the rights of anyone who is FOR the rights they disagree with.

I have heard them rant against the “evils” of science and math being taught in our schools. I have heard them rail against the evils of Sharia Law while promoting the idea of Christianity – or their version thereof – supplanting the religious beliefs of non-Christians in our schoolrooms and our government. I have heard them vilify sex education in our classrooms, as they pose for photo-ops with their “illegitimate” grandchildren. I have heard them espouse their dedication to “Christian principles” while ignoring the principles that Jesus himself taught.

As though further proof were needed as to where Republicans stand, their ultimate goals have become glaringly apparent with their nomination, election, and continuing support of Donald Trump. They have finally succeeded in installing an ignorant, lying, self-absorbed idiot in the Oval Office, a man who literally epitomizes the concept that “greed is good” and concern for the nation or its populace is to be disregarded.

I have no sympathy for those who will now suffer the consequences of their loyalty to the GOP and their so-called pResident. They voted for a bloviating, self-serving bigot who is as dumb as they are. They supported the presidency of an international laughingstock, who bragged about pussy-grabbing, mocked the disabled – and, above all else – was more than willing to collude with our sworn enemy, the Russians, in order to be elected.

I loathe Republicans, and those who elect them. There is NOTHING to be said on their behalf; there is no excuse for their political ignorance. Anyone who says they didn’t see where a Trump “presidency” would end up is lying – or is just too god-damned stupid to be allowed to vote.

Of all the enemies we must face, Republicans ARE the most loathsome, the most abhorrent, the most dangerous to our democracy and its continuing existence.

When you place a Putin ass-kisser in the White House, when you actually defend his obvious collusion with our enemies, when you decide that handing over the country’s confidential information to our sworn enemy is acceptable, you ARE the enemy.

One more time: I loathe Republicans and those who elect them. I am confident in my assessment of their treachery, and I am convinced of their determination to un-do all that is right, all that is fair, all that is just, all that is representative of what our country stands for.

There is nothing - I repeat, NOTHING - that Republicans have said or done that advances the rights of the citizenry, from the right to have their votes counted to the right to earn a living wage, to the right to be educated, to the right to marry their partner-of-choice, to the right to refuse to bear unwanted children borne of incest and/or rape, to the right to determine their own destiny.

The enemies that surround us are determined to defeat us. But it is the enemy within that poses the greatest threat. And those who side with that enemy must be recognized for who they are.