The May l2, 2021, purge of conservative Wyoming Republican U.S. Representatives by other Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives removes all doubt. The Republicans have now completely moved themselves into Nineteen Eighty Four status. From the movies back panel: “The classic George Orwell story set in a world where absolute conformity in action, word and thought including loyalty to Big Brother is demanded.”
So….loyalty to “Big Brother” means that the Republican Party of 1854-1960 is no more. Even the increasingly irrational and insane Republican Party of l964-2016 is no more. All that is required is a formal name change – to – The Trump Dictatorship.
The Cheney Purge removed all doubts that Trumpanistas stand for lies and lunacy; cruelty and craziness; destruction and divisiveness; racism and reaction; fascism and fraud..
We don’t even need to go back into the last 40 years of Republican deliberate destruction of what we used to know was “the American Dream; done by reverse Robin Hood tax cuts for the least deserving Americans: the obscenely overpaid top 1% and corporations moving jobs overseas.
All one needs to do is look at the Republican response to COVID-19 – irrational and incompetent. By comparison to rational countries like South Korea, American cases and deaths, per capita, are many times worse. The Republican mantra has been “personal responsibility.” Even leaving carve outs for “religious liberty” claims, the main response from “responsible” conservatives has been a series of super spreader events; plus multiple bullying events all over America.
Enraged “personal responsibility” conservatives have threatened retail employees, assaulted retail workers, been kicked off airplanes, and, of course – threatened to shoot people who denied their “right” to go without masks even in private property stores.
We are seeing a steady descent into anarchy, accelerated by the claim that: “I have rights.” But, no responsibilities to any other human being. Just “personal responsibility” rights. The ultimate “ME” over the collective “We.”
So…the CDC feels that all Americans can be trusted to do “the right thing” with respect to COVID-19. We’re all on “the honor system.” If we haven’t had a full course of COVID-19 vaccines, we’ll feel “honor bound’ to continue wearing masks – as a sign of caring for our fellow Americans. Since less than 50% of adults have had a full vaccine, that means in public spaces we’ll see about half the people with masks, RIGHT???
When the COVID-19 cases, and deaths, resume going up – we’ll know that faith has been misplaced. And since the COVID-19 resisters have “privacy rights,” the victims won’t know who sickened them, or possibly killed their under l2-aged child.
In our upside down America, those who refuse to respect your rights to live have “rights.” You don’t. Lies, lunacy, cruelty, craziness have a price. “Personal responsibility” without responsibility has a price. It might be somebody you love.
With Justice For All 