The Radicalization of the Political Process

The highlights of the RedState meeting after the first Republican debate concerned everything they are going to take away from Americans. What a bunch of nutjobs.  Mike Huckabee will make sure that healthcare is taken away from the poor as he proposes personhood for the unborn. Which means that a living adult that carrying a fetus will have fewer rights than the fetus gestating in the uterus.

You got to love these guys and one gal who want to be president of America of 1923. I call them the Calvin Coolidge clones. This may not be a far analogy for poor Calvin, but he presided over an anachronistic time that made sure to segregate society between the haves and have nots, the whites from all people of color (unless they were a maid or some other form of servant), and kept unions at bay so that wages could be kept low and profits high.

When you are able to appeal to the lowest common denominator by yelling and repeating some outrageous lie, get to work and get it done like Ted Cruz did when he shouted to the heavens that “…President Obama was ‘funding radical Islamic terrorism’.” That sort of Intellectual dishonesty will bring the house to its knees in praise of your brave stance.

What does all this radicalization of the political process do? Nothing good. It sets up dynamics that perpetuate the inflexibility and intolerance that is sweeping through the country at all levels of the political arena. It ain’t going away anytime soon. In fact the Republicans will double down on their hate rhetoric as long as they see it as a means to an end. Look at Ferguson where white armed militia decided to show up to put the black people in their place.

So for the next 16 months, the American people will be entertained with outrageous and divisive statements as a means for these Republican candidates to try and distinguish themselves from the herd, and after the nomination, they will try to publicly walk them back while privately staying true to their feigned policy positions. I call this the Mitt Romney Effect.

Watching these clowns bend over backwards to please their puppets masters and money machines is sickening and disgusting. There is no single person vying for the Republican nomination that is their own man or woman. All they do is pander with their hand out for the next greenback.

You may say, “Wait a minute, what about that Trump character?” You’re right; his hand ain’t out begging for a handout because it’s trapped deep in his own pocket pulling out his own nickels and dimes to say fuck you to those other billionaires who hide behind closed door a feared of the public finding out who they are and the agenda that they are pressing on their puppets. More than the money the Donald pretends to be Mister Honesty and General No It All who will with a wave of his hand solve all of America’s problems.

As the old saying goes, “Money talks and Bullshit walks,” is completely wrong in this Republican nominating process. It is Bullshit that talks and brings in wheelbarrows of money, and the more desperate the candidate the greater the amount of Bullshit that emanates from his or her pie hole leaving any normal American shaking their heads in disbelief.

It is the Money and Bullshit that is radicalizing the Republican field as they watch their chances to win the presidency again evaporate before their eyes because of they need to gratify their base at all costs and ignore the rest of America. Radicalized politicians won’t win because they are shackled to their cause and not the needs of the American people, which is a shame because we once had two parties that presented competing but competent ideas to help America. We are left with but one…