So, What Has Changed, Republicans? Have You No Shame?
I'm confused. For as long as I can remember, Republicans have been totally opposed to everything the Russians have done, stood for, or represented. That has been one of the main Republican themes since the 1950s. Any connection to Russians was treated as evidence of villainy and possibly even treason. People lost their jobs and livelihoods for merely having a copy of Soviet Life on their coffee table. Republicans initiated "The Red Scare," for pity's sake.
I grew up as a child in the 1950s, and watched as decent people from all walks of life were pilloried in HUAC hearings. When I grew up and joined the USAF, after dropping out of college, I faced questions during a security clearance investigation for correspondence with Soviet Block radio stations I had listened to as a child. It didn't matter, in the end, but that was the level to which the paranoia about the Soviet Union and Russia went. I watched a wonderful high school teacher fight for his job after some small town idiot accused him of being a Communist. He wasn't. He kept his job, but was completely demoralized by the accusation.
So, now, with Russia led by a Soviet-era KGB official, it's all OK? Republicans, apparently, are no longer worried about the Russians. That's really puzzling, if you think about it. We have a Republican President who appears to have been in secret meetings with the Russians, and who has hired people to be his intimate advisers who have strong links to the Putin administration. But, Republicans in Congress are fine with that, apparently. It bothers them not one whit.
They don't want those associations and links investigated. They want nothing to do with such an investigation. Apparently, it might reveal even more insidious connections between the Trump administration and the former arch-enemies of the Republican Party. What the actual sexual act?
Have the Russians suddenly become our friends? Do they now have nothing but good intentions toward the United States? It doesn't seem so to me. They interfered in a presidential election and maybe in down-ticket elections as well. They're interfering in our Middle East relationships. They're still spying on this country, with snooper ships and satellite espionage, just as they have been doing for decades. They still have a large stock of nuclear weapons, almost certainly still targeting the U.S. What has changed, Republicans? How is Russia different today than in the past?
I maintain that it is not the Russians who have changed at all. What has changed is the willingness of Republicans to look the other way so they can preserve their phony baloney jobs and continue to work toward oppression of minorities, women, immigrants and working people. If the Russians are helping them to do that, then hurrah for the Russians! That seems to be where things are today in the minds of Republicans who are in power. It's alarming to a degree I couldn't have imagined even a few years ago.
What has changed, Republicans? I can tell you what has changed. You have changed! In today's political climate, you are so fearful of losing power that you have been willingly duped by your old enemy. Putin and Russian have figured out how to fool you into thinking that they support you. They don't, Republicans. Not one bit. They're simply using you, and their little puppet, Trump, to undermine the United States and help themselves. You don't see it? I can't imagine that you don't see it.
I think you've voluntarily opted to use whatever means are necessary to keep your own power. I think you're only thinking about ways you can profit in the short term from the decline of the United States. I think you are so set on crippling our poor, our working middle class, our ethnic diversity and our very culture that you have given yourselves over to the very forces you once called the enemy. I think you have gravely endangered our nation to benefit yourselves.
Shame on you, Republicans! Shame!
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