Quote:Suddenly Last Summer
I’ve taken some flack for dismissing Republican voters as irredeemable idiots. I’ve been told that they are simply misguided, ill-informed, politically naive citizens who were inadvertently led astray.
Here’s what it really comes down to ...
In November 2016, not only did Republicans vote against their own interests, they voted against the “good Christian principles” they’ve been touting for decades. The same people who decried Michelle Obama’s inappropriate behaviour for wearing sleeveless dresses (Oh my!!!) suddenly had no problem with a First Lady whose nude photos are all over the internet.
Republican “church-goers” suddenly decided that Trump’s lack of church attendance was irrelevant, and that his pussy-grabbing remarks were simply good, clean, locker-room fun. The “religious right” suddenly determined that a thrice-married, self-proclaimed serial adulterer was an outstanding model of those “good Christian family values” they have longed-for in a president – hallelujah, amen.
The so-called “Christian leaders” that Republicans adore – the ones who berated Hillary for keeping her marriage together despite her husband’s infidelities – suddenly decided that a man who bragged endlessly about his (alleged) sexual conquests during his many marriages was “chosen by God to lead the nation”.
The Republican staunch patriots, who have always prided themselves on being champions of the middle-class, suddenly determined that a man who was involved in hundreds of lawsuits for cheating hard-working Americans out of their compensation for materials delivered and work done was a shining example of honest entrepreneurship – not to mention being great POTUS material.
The GOP adherents, who never fail to boast of their unimpeachable honesty and integrity, suddenly realized that a proven liar was really just a misunderstood model citizen prone to inadvertently mis-stating facts – repeatedly. And again. And yet again.
The truth is that the minute Trump called all Mexicans drug-smuggling rapists, all Muslims terrorists, all blacks inherently lazy, and openly mocked the disabled, he won the hearts (and votes) of every hypocritical “Christian”, every bigot, every racist, every misogynist in the country. Sadly, there are a lot of them – and we now know who they are.
So spare me the excuses. Spare me the “but, but, buts”. Spare me the “I’m NOT a racist or a bigot” comments that end in “but I voted to put a racist/bigot in the White House anyway”.
Stop telling me that Republican voters are good people who were led astray. They have the same access to facts that everyone else has – but they chose to get their “facts” from FOX-News, Rush Limbaugh, and Alex Jones. They chose to ignore the hundreds of times Trump’s lies were invariably exposed.
More to the point, they chose to completely abandon every virtue they ever laid claim to, every principle they ever boasted about, every value they proudly bragged made them superior to we “godless liberals”.
Those who voted for Trump are NOT to be excused as poor misguided, American patriots who were – suddenly, last summer – led astray by a fast-talking snake-oil salesman who showed up in town with snappy songs and dance numbers that dazzled the shit out of their collective ass.
They were led to vote for a racist, misogynistic, pussy-grabbing bigot because he represents everything they believe in, and everything they admire – and everything they are just too spineless to admit to.
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