Charles P. Pierce The @GOPtaxScam Bill is the culmination of a dark, dangerous dream.

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The Only Way Paul Ryan Wins Is if Millions of Americans Lose

The GOP Tax Bill is the culmination of a dark, dangerous dream.
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By Charles P. Pierce
Dec 20, 2017

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Ignore any news report that calls what the Congress did “historic” in any sense except the ironic.

Ignore any news report that prioritize what a “win” this is for the Congress and for the president*.

Ignore any news report that describes what the Congress did on Tuesday as “keeping a campaign promise.”

Ignore any news report that describes without the appropriate scorn the fact that this bill culminates a decades-long dream of Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin. This culmination is roughly akin to the New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878’s having been the “culmination” of a successful breeding program for the Aedes aegypti.

Ignore all of this and concentrate on what’s really happening to the country.

Paul Ryan dreamed of this day because Paul Ryan dreams of plutocracy. And now, with this bill, he has successfully arranged the first piece of his career-long effort to turn the clock of the American economy back to the 1890s. When he comes for what he calls “entitlement reform”—which he will, as soon as this idiot bill explodes the deficit—that will be the second piece. The Supreme Court (through Citizens United, McCutcheon, and Shelby County) already has cooperated in this great project. The president* is on board because he’s basically made of greed and ignorance. The large media conglomerates will go along for the ride because they are conglomerates first, and news-gathering entities second. This state of affairs could well be generational, and there’s no indication that the Second Gilded Age will be as vulnerable to progressive ideas as the first one turned out to be. The franchise is under assault. Citizenship itself is under assault.

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1. Paul Ryan deserves a special place in the pantheon of mass murderers from Wisconsin