Are Republicans genetic mutations?
I have a friend who thinks so.
He's only half serious about it, but it's made me think. The differences between Democrats and Republicans isn't like the "forever rivalry" between Boston Red Sox fans and NY Yankees fans. It's deeper and far more fundamental.
Today, we're seeing elected Republicans, and the vast majority of their voters, going along with a president who can most charitably be described as a madman:
O He's publicly and openly shredding our Constitution.
0 He's heaping endless praises on the most vile, deadly dictator in the world.
0 As of today, he's seriously pushing the Justice Dept. to investigate (and jail?) Hillary.
0 He's the idol/superhero of every racist, Neo-Nazi and Klansman in America.
0 Immigrant children are suffering life-long damage in his ongoing "Hate The Other" crusade.
I'd go on, but everyone here on DU knows the horrible trail of his endless cruelty and evil.
No American need ever again ask how Germany, a scientifically, socially advanced country, fell under the rule of the worst human-like creature in history. It's deja vu all over again*. And we're seeing that elected Republicans and their voters are just fine with it.
It seems to me that a sickness has spread across America, and has made so many people totally blind to reality. Or, it has made them so incredibly ignorant that they don't understand that they themselves are among the worst victims of the virus that's attacking us.
So, let me go back to my pal's take that "Republicans are genetic mutations." Truth be told, that's as good an explanation as any to what could possibly be going on in the mind of anyone who would vote for a Republican. But for sure, it seems that they and we are members of different species. And they seem to have no problem at all going along with, and defending, what can perhaps be best describes as "pure evil."
* With thanks to Yogi Berra.
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