It’s Wednesday and I guess it’s cloudy, with those thin clouds lying flat against the sky. I’m already on my second cup of coffee, and I’m hoping it does its coffee thing.
I’m sitting here thinking about the lies conservatives tell about, well, everything, for people who whine and brag and screech about their “religion,” they really lie a lot. They have absolutely no respect for “life,” given the joy with which they’ve fought to legally reduce women to something less than farmstock.
They use a moralistic tone talking about “abortion” and the “sanctity of life” while pointedly lobbying for women to die or be maimed by getting pregnancy wrong. It’s a death penalty without trial, all for a clump of cells they have determined have a greater set of rights than the fully formed human surrounding them, the fully-formed human without whom there would be no clump of cells.
They refuse to feed the children they demand be born, with or without surviving mothers; education, to these conservatives, is a blight. They ooze hatred and bigotry and bemoan not owning everything, and if they don’t they just pretend that they do.
But they’re “religious” so it’s all OK.
If I sound contemptuous, it’s because I am. They have never hidden their disdain for us, and they’ve gained ground in our politeness in response, our allowing them “dignity” or the ability to hide or pretend their actions are less charged or awful than they are.
No more.
No. More.
They are terrible people doing terrible things without conscience. Not just trump, not just “maga” but ALL CONSERVATIVES. ALL REPUBLICANS. All of them. The horrible is right there in their policies, even if it’s couched in boring words.
What we’re seeing isn’t a new kind of conservative, it’s just one that doesn’t feel it has to play to the room anymore. That alone should chill you. They think they’ve done it. They think this country is theirs for the taking, that we will all be living under their gross and twisted “morality,” that they will have all the power, all the money, and we will be their drones.
That’s not hyperbole. That’s what they believe. They believe it so much, they’ve broken laws they never thought they’d see consequences for.
Well, we can be the ultimate consequences, but it requires us using our singular superpower: voting.
Not only should we not give them more institutional power, let’s remove that which they already have.
Have a great Wednesday.
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