The Reagan Legacy: 37 years of fake issues, make-believe policies and contempt for democracy
That's what we're dealing with, my friends.
It all started with Raygun and his fantasies: welfare queens, trickle-down economics, asserting Carter's small deficits equaled mortgaging our childrens future, government is the problem, etc. And it's only gotten worse over the decades.
Where Raygun held an uneasy alliance with the then-emerging religious right, he didn't embrace the make-believe with the fervor of today's Rs, all of whom make Elmer Gantry look like a honest broker. Used to be you'd be looked on suspiciously were you to question science based on religious clap trap. Today, doing so is just one of the acceptable positions to hold as a politician.
The Problem: embracing the make believe of religion as if it were objective truth gives one license to make up anything else they wish about any subject they wish, and to aver that it's a truth, rather than an opinion. Every fake issue being advanced by tRump and the Rs finds its basis in that warped American version of Xianity, from their own sense of victimhood, to their sense of entitlement, to their zealous beliefs that the evil world is against them (if anyone can cite a RW policy that isn't religion based, I'll tip my hat. I sure can't come up with anything).
The Christian theocracy is here, my friends, wrapped in the flag and carrying a Bible, as the saying goes. What Barry Goldwater warned us about in the 60s is fully operational in 2017.
The Junior Bush administration laughed about creating their own realities, leaving the fact checkers stranded on objective island while they sailed the seas of make believe: an Iraq war that would take two weeks, no, make that two hours to win...and that would pay for itself; economic policies that led to the second Great Depression, etc. You get it.
And now, we have an administration that lies pathologically, making up issues and factoids to support their greed and contempt for democracy. There is no immigration problem. There are no masses coming here and taking American jobs. No one coming here committing crimes at an elevated level. But we are about to spend bilions on an unneeded wall, while posting weekly lists of all them non-whites committing crimes in the name of illegal immigration. Unemployment is way down? Say it's way up. Same with the crime rate. Same with, well, everything. Up is down and black is white.
And on and on it goes. Everything they say is not only a lie, it's a lie that is in 180° opposition to the truth. And the media eats it up, leading to the sheeple also eating it up.
Yep, we're fucked, my friends. You can't win sitting at a red light, only to get rear-ended by some guy who says that you're supposed to go on red, or that red is actually green, and have that fantasy supported by any government rep that happens along. You simply can't win.
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