I am back
from my brief escape from alt-reality. I see that I. Mangrey kept things moving
quite well in my absence. Since he had no intention of leaving his keyboard I was
able to borrow his shades to protect my bloodshot eyes. I am tanned, rested and
“ready” for the shitshow that 2017 promises to be. It probably is not possible
to be ready, but I’m here, I’m severe and I ain’t going anywhere. For now I have
a little something to get off my chest: A few words to the not-so-loyal
opposition as they prepare to make America hate again.
An Open Letter to Republican’ts
January 9,
2017
Please stop
referring to yourselves as the party of Lincoln. You never were, and to the
extent that you can even pretend you once were (you were not) you surely have
not been, in any way whatsoever, for over half a century. That was when most
Democrats emerged from the swamps of racism and white supremacy and most of you
began your still ongoing war on integration, civil rights and voting rights. There
are numerous other hateful pursuits to which you cling, but they are not
pertinent to the present context. Perhaps some other time.
In a similar
vein to your preposterous Lincoln fetish you must stop quoting and publicly
fondling the memory of Ronald Reagan. You are no more the party of Reagan than
you are the party of Lincoln. Just stop talking about him altogether. At least
in Reagan’s case there was a time when he was
your party. Those days are also long gone though I can understand why you
still cling to his memory – or at least the parts of it you care to remember –
however diluted and deluded it may be. Today’s Republican’ts have next to
nothing in common with Reagan. He was once a Democrat. And worse than that, a
union rep. And more worser than that, he was a union rep for the Screen Actors
Guild. You know what that means – Hollywood…actors…liberals – and you hate
actors and Hollywood, and unions and Democrats. And don’t even get you started
on liberals. Reagan wanted to rid the world of all nuclear weapons, and your
new lord and master Putin – well, not him but his representative in the US,
Chrump – does not even know what nuclear weapons are though he thinks everybody
should have some. Chrump does not understand why if we have them we don’t use
them and he wants Rick Perry to be responsible for them.
Your once
beloved St. Ronnie raised taxes like nobody’s business, bloated the federal
government and had amnesty for immigrants. One thing you probably still like
about Reagan was the way he interfered with the freeing of the Iranian hostages
before he was president in order to make Carter look bad and increase his
chances of defeating him. Talk about obstruction. All you guys did was stop
Obama from getting anything done while
in office. You have also conveniently forgotten that Reagan negotiated with
terrorists and bailed on the Marines in Lebanon, which was much worse than
Benghazi (You conveniently managed to forget that one without batting an eye.)
Oh, And That Whole Iran-Contra Thingie
Then there
was that unpleasant little Iran-Contra affair, where the Reagan administration
was trading arms with Iran to funnel money to the brutal Contras in Nicaragua.
That sordid mess helped Reagan achieve historic status as the president with
the greatest number of convicted felons of any administration.
"By
the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted,
had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for
official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of number of officials
involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever." from Sleep-Walking Through History:
America in the Reagan Years, by Haynes Johnson, (1991, Doubleday)
Yet you
still pretend to love him. You do not. You would not give someone like him the
time of day in the new regime. And not just because you have Chrump now. You
have been anti-Reagan since the Tea Party took control of what passes for your
soul. At least he never hid any emails. Just his rapidly accelerating
Alzheimer’s…and Nancy’s astrologer, who played a pivotal role in all planning
and decision making.
Back in the USSA
Maybe you
have been so busy desperately trying to dismantle the New Deal, civil rights,
voting rights, the federal government and democracy in general, that you have
forgotten that one of the things Reagan was most proud of – his part in defeating
the Soviet Union and “ending” the Cold War. I won’t bother you with the nuances
of how big a part St. Ronnie did or did not play in this. But I must ask a
question to see if we are all on the same page planet: What country
emerged as the most powerful entity after the collapse of the USSR? No, it was
not California…or New York, it was a
little place called Russia. Funny thing – Russia, heir to the Soviet Union
(including all their nukes) just happened to give your child candidate its
shoulders to stand on.
Well before
that however, many of you and your right wing media whores began yearning for a
leader like Putin. You preferred a “commie” dictator to a duly elected (not
that you really care about a thing like that) American (not that you ever
admitted he was an American)president. This bizarre turn of the coat began, as
I recall, around 2009. I’m sure it had nothing to do with America having a
black president. Although one could not be faulted for thinking that since you
do not really want black people to vote, you probably do not want them becoming
president, so at least you get points for consistency. I know that not all
Republican’ts are racists, but all racists are Republican’ts (or so-called
independents, who would never vote for a Democrat).
Your and
your party’s new figurehead Putin’s presidential candidate – whose top advisors
and many cabinet picks – either have direct dealings with Putin or simply adore
him from afar, ramped up the Putin envy at every turn. That includes the
candidate himself who has waffled on every single issue except his adoration of
Putin. I am not saying that Chrump loves Putin because he owes Putin untold amounts
of money or because Putin is blackmailing him, but many people are saying this.
“Now, I don't know. What do I know about it? All I know is what's on the
Internet.” (actual March 13, 2016 Chrump quote that seemed appropriate for his
occasion)
Now that the
Republican’t party has sold its “soul” to Putin and his Manchurian Idiot Chrump,
you have forfeited any relationship whatsoever to Reagan just as you long ago surrendered
any connection to Lincoln thanks to your steadfast work during the Civil Rights
Era. Go find someone else as the target of your necrophilia. You cannot claim
to be the political progeny of Lincoln, Reagan or even Nixon, who you never
seem to mention for some reason – and not, I am guessing, because he is now seen
as too liberal. Neither can you claim to love America since you only love the
America you see in your fevered minds or the Americans you deem worthy simply
because they agree with you because they are so damn ignorant of the facts. You
do not own America, the flag, or patriotism. You do own jingoism, lots of
racism, a healthy dose of fascism and the House of Representatives thanks to
your (brilliant, though I hate to admit it) gerrymandering. And you surely own
Chrump and Putin. American intelligence agencies intercepted communications between
senior Russian government officials celebrating Chrump’s victory over Clinton
as a geopolitical win for Moscow. You are all Russians now.
Yours Truly
(look it up),
Ed Venture
Editor, Paying Attention
Editor, Paying Attention
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