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I have a growing concern for the mental stability of our Republican friends, especially those who still believe that Bush is the best thing that’s ever happened to the country. They are already teetering on the brink of sanity, and the constant disclosure of facts, particularly so close to a presidential election, is likely to send many of them over the edge.
I realize how enticing it is to give in to temptation – to want to stand up and scream “We told you so”, about anything and everything from those WMDs in Iraq that didn’t exist, to the impact that the tried-and-proven-wrong trickle-down theory of economics would have on the middle-class and the country’s economy as a whole, to the fact that the Idiot-in-Chief and his entire administration spend most of their business hours ensuring that self-incriminating evidence (from emails to videotapes) finds its way into the nearest shredder post haste.
But please think of your fellow Americans – and allegedly, Republicans are fellow citizens – and try not to hit them with reality all at once – quite frankly, I don’t think they can handle it.
Don’t tell them that as they’re laughing their asses off over people who are having their mortgages foreclosed on and their homes repossessed that this situation is going to affect the value of their own homes. Let them laugh in peace – at least until they try to sell their houses in a market glutted with recently-foreclosed cheaper alternatives.
Don’t tell them that the NIE reports that show conclusively that Iran is not an imminent threat is not some bogus left-wing conspiracy concocted to embarrass their preznit and thwart yet another war (aka money-sucking quagmire) while undermining their personal safety at the local mall.
Don’t tell them that universal health care means medical practitioners running their healthcare system, while the government pays the bills. They desperately want to believe that a system that works exceedingly well in every other industrialized nation is evil incarnate. Is it really that hard to let them hold on to the belief that they’ll have to stand in line for months awaiting an emergency appendectomy – even if that isn’t the way taxpayer-funded medical care works?
Have a heart, people. Don’t shatter those elusive dreams of victory in Iraq being just around the corner, along with the resulting life-long friendship of people whose country we have destroyed, whose loved ones we have tortured, whose children we have killed. Don’t point your fingers at the allies who no longer trust us, or the mayhem we have created in the Middle East.
No matter how hard it is to swallow your pride, don’t stoop to laughing at a preznit who can’t speak coherently, who spends his life on vacation, who couldn’t keep an American city afloat after a hurricane, who won’t ever – no matter how hard he tries – shed the monicker of Worst.President. Ever.
For the sake of national unity, as well as the sanity of the other side of the aisle, let’s just pretend that Abramoff, Gannon, Neo, Ney, Foggo, Cunningham, Foley, Libby et al never happened.
Let’s just go on from here, acting like our government under GOP control never sanctioned torture while telling us what good, moral Christians they are, never ran up an unprecedented debt we all now have to pay for, never squandered taxpayers’ dollars on no-bid contracts awarded to war-profiteers with administration ties, never ‘lost’ billions of dollars in cash without a single investigation into how or where it disappeared.
Let’s hold our tongues when the topic of how poorly educated our children are as compared to children in other nations is raised, or when the discussion turns to unsavory subjects like homeless vets, outsourced jobs, or poisonous products from China and elsewhere finding their way onto our store shelves due to a complete lack of oversight.
And above all else, don’t mention the current crop of Republican presidential candidates – the plastic Mormon, the sleepy grandpa, the Fundie nutcase, the ex-mayor who screwed his mistress on the taxpayers’ dime. They need to believe they have a shot at another GOPer in the White House; it’s the only rope they have to hang on to, as thin and frayed as it is.
Yes, I know they called us unpatriotic traitors, insisted that we didn’t know what we were talking about when we predicted the nightmare that a Bush administration would inevitably cause.
But does that mean we are justified in pouring salt into their open wounds, or rubbing their noses in the crap they have created?
Oh, who am I kiddin’? OF COURSE WE ARE! In fact, it is our duty as citizens.
So don’t let a we-told-you-so opportunity pass you by! Yell it, scream it, blog it, email it, post it on message boards, and spread the word.
It doesn’t take much to drive a Republican insane these days – just point out the one thing they can’t handle: the truth.
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