Some thoughts on Republican logic

CPAC speaker sparks alarm with call for trans people to be ‘eradicated’

Honestly, this is the sort of thinking that brings the Church Lady to mind:

Now CPAC, well, I guess PBS cared enough to do this short film about them:

One of the most amusing things about Ben Meiselas' hatchet job on CPAC is the point at 5:45 of his video where he shows the half-empty CPAC convention room. Practically nobody attends CPAC -- maybe it's that the mass public doesn't really want to look all that closely at who these people really are.

I suppose it's obvious though. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to "protect children." But what from? Malnutrition? No. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to protect children from "transgender ideology."

And let's turn Michael Knowles' argument around a bit. Knowles argues that transgenderism isn't real. From the Independent article at the top:

Mr Knowles has said in the past that his rhetoric isn’t genocidal because he doesn’t believe trans people exist, Jezebel noted.

“There can’t be a genocide,” he said on his programme last week, adding that “it’s not a legitimate category of being. They’re labouring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion”.

It seems more valid, however, to argue that Republicans don't exist, that being a Republican isn't a legitimate category of being, and that they are -- indeed -- laboring under a delusion. Should we eradicate Republicans? No, because then we would become like Knowles.

After all, it's quite clear why the Republicans are doing what they do. They don't really want what the CPAC people want, at least not all of it, but they invariably end up coddling them and putting them in power in places like the Supreme Court.

Here are a couple of historical afterthoughts for reflection. One wonders what Hitler's place in history might have been had there not been nice conservatives like Franz von Papen or Paul von Hindenburg in power in Germany at the beginning of 1933. All they wanted to do was to bring the monarchy back, and Hitler seemed the easiest route, as indeed he was. And then, on a lesser note, I suppose, there was John B. Floyd, secretary of war under nice Pennsylvania conservative James Buchanan, who appears to have sent immense quantities of arms just before the Civil War to places where Confederates would later seize them. (Floyd later became a Confederate general.) It's the slippery slope, you see. Elect a conservative, get something worse.

As for trans people, it's also quite clear that they're not doing it so they can enjoy those dreadful suicide statistics. Dear Republicans: has it crossed your minds that the trans people might possibly be sincere in their intentions?

Okay? Okay.

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Cassiodorus's picture

This bunch is more like "let a million Brett Favres bloom"...

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

Shahryar's picture

confuse the righties, get some support from the lefties and win in a landslide

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Pick something to be wronged about, or you find distasteful, gays, trans, happy holidays. Paste it on something "good", traditional marriage, straight people, Christmas. Blow it up into a war against religion, pedophiles, whatever. Go way over the top in victim hood, vow to fight to the death. Blame everything on the left . Wash, rinse, spin cycle, repeat.

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Cassiodorus's picture

@Snode -- if we as a people could ditch the pogrom mentality for once.

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

@Cassiodorus if we weren't immersed in it every minute of the day. This political system was designed to fracture it's citizens lives. We're trapped. The price hikes, un affordable housing and health care, unhealthy food, expensive education and economy that caters to Wall Street are thousands and thousands of conscious decisions that have built up to what we have now.

Why have a country if it only benefits a few citizens? Because within those borders they can sway everything. Who fights and dies to protect these "borders", in Germany and Korea and everywhere else. In many countries the people vote to give themselves a better life, and to give their fellow citizens a better life. Health care, education, working conditions, rights. Here it's called communism, fascism, leftism, the mortal enemy of democracy.

And so here some kids live in cars with their parents, have welfare lunch at school, hang out at Mickey D's to use the internet and have to beg for what much of the developed world takes for granted. Houses stand empty, fortified by tax write offs and mortgage deductions so people can live under bridges and on the streets.

So far, to me, it feels like the only reason we have borders and a country is to give the 1% a safe place to grow their wealth and have a populace to pay for their crimes.

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snoopydawg's picture

@Snode

In many countries the people vote to give themselves a better life, and to give their fellow citizens a better life. Health care, education, working conditions, rights.

It just doesn’t work because our representatives aren’t there to represent us, but they are there to represent their donors.

Jefferson warned about taxes and central banks and even made sure that we had unalienable rights that the government couldn’t touch and yet through the years all those things have been changed by many congressional acts and signed by numerous presidents. Anyone who tried fighting against was either removed from government or from life itself. The Kennedy’s, King, and gawd only knows who else. Protest against your government and get beaten or killed by the military police force they created to get around posse comitatos.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Socialprogressive's picture

Sounds like an oxymoron to me. Then again, any time you're talking about politicians whether R or D, the word moron comes to mind.

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When I offer to wash your back in the shower, all you have to say is yes or no.
Not all this "who are you, and how did you get in here?" nonsense.

usefewersyllables's picture

of mental illness.

But somehow, I can’t work up any pity or understanding. He (and all his ilk) need to be institutionalized before this brand of stochastic terrorism takes root.

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

Cassiodorus's picture

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama