I'm sorry for the sparse blogging of late. The problem is that there is no reasonable or even particularly interesting response to what is going on right now, it is just insanity. Simon Rosenberg provides a worthy rant, to which I have little to add. My mission would mostly be to explain why Robert Kennedy Jr. is insane, but that seems quite unnecessary. You already know that.
The Republican party has become a big tent coalition of racists, religious fanatics, wacko conspiracy theorists, fascists, and the rich assholes who bankroll them because they don't want to pay taxes or have to put up with those commie environmental, consumer protection, and worker safety regulations, or labor unions. Of course there is some overlap among this vile crew, but to the extent they don't overlap, they put up with each other and give their mad king the slobbering obeisance he demands because they think that's how they'll get whatever piece of the above they want.
They might want to step back for a moment and contemplate that they are helping him destroy the country and its economy, which won't actually be good for any of them, but they're all living in an alternate reality. So what is there for me to say?
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We are by and large a terribly sick, traumatized, racist, violent and rapacious nation. A country with a majority of people who are rational and capable of compassion, empathy and critical thinking would not elect an insane rapist to be their leader. That is who he is: an insane rapist. Think about What it means for half of a nation to believe that it's OK for someone like that to represent them what it means for half of a nation to believe that it's desirable for someone like that to represent them.
As usual, pardon the typos and grammatical/syntax errors, due to a combination of seething anger and normal aging (which is making it increasingly difficult to "type with one finger" on this undersized iPhone keyboard).
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