Sometimes It Clearly IS Good vs. Evil
The evil that has devoured the "Republican" Party is metastasizing
The cancer eating away at the United States is rapidly metastasizing. It has already devoured the No-Longer-Republican Party. The disease has several names. Among them are lies, hate, fear, racism, sexism, antisemitism, bigotry, trumpism, authoritarianism, and fascism.
We are far beyond “both sides do it” and similar nonsense that many in the media keep repeating. The accelerating evil we are seeing in the United States is being actively promoted by only one “side.” They are the devil’s advocates. They seek to divide by promoting fear and hate. They have hijacked the Party of Lincoln and the Religion of Jesus, daring to call themselves “Republicans” as they push to end the Republic and “Christians” as they stand the teachings of Christ on their head.
They dare to call themselves “conservatives” while trying to tear down all the best in American traditions, undermine the Constitution, and replace democracy with authoritarianism. They promote outlandish lies and white supremacy.
They outrageously call their political opponents “groomers.” They make such outlandish statements as that of Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State under Trump and 2024 presidential hopeful, that the most dangerous person in the world is not Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, or Xi Jinping. “The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten,” Pompeo affirmed. “It’s not a close call.” Ms. Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers. In making his opening bid to attract members of the Trump Cult by demonstrating that he’s the biggest nutter among the wannabes, Pompeo charged that teachers are teaching our kids “filth.”
With this Big Lie (they have a full arsenal of them), Pompeo put a target on Ms. Weingarten. If people who think Trump and his followers are telling the truth believe that she is the person “most likely to take this republic down,” surely some of them will conclude that the “patriotic” thing to do is kill her. And the teachers? The devilish political leaders tell their followers that teachers are filling our children with “filth.” The teachers—and Democrats!—are pedophiles “grooming” the kids for sexual exploitation. Attack them! Attack Nancy Pelosi!
In any sensible world, anywhere that facts matter, of course the real filth is these malicious lies the rightwingers are spreading.
And the party that should now be known as the Anti-Republicans is ever more tightly embracing antisemites, white nationalists, fascists, and conspiracy insanity. Donald Trump has openly aligned himself with the evil madness called QAnon. In September, he appeared at a rally in Ohio wearing a Q lapel pin and the crowd saluted him with the QAnon version of the Nazi Sieg heil!
Trump at Ohio rally, September 17, 2022
This past Tuesday, Trump had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate with the antisemitic artist formerly known as Kanye West and white nationalist Mussolini-admirer and Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes. "I really like this guy. He gets me,” Trump reportedly said of Fuentes.
And the “Republican” lies about LGBTQ people being evil “groomers” lead to mass murder, as they have in Orlando and Colorado Springs. Look at some of the reactions to the latter.
Jenna Ellis expounding on murdered LGBTQ people going to hell.
Right-wing attorney Jenna Ellis, who has worked for Trump and has a history of anti-LGBTQ bigotry, says (see the video here) the victims in the mass murder are the ones going to hell: “The people killed in the nightclub that night, there is no evidence that they were Christians. Assuming they have not accepted the truth/affirmed Christ as the lord of their life they are now reaping the consequences of eternal damnation.”
“Jesus wept” seems to be the only appropriate response to the evil in the name of Christianity that the rightwingers are spreading.
The self-styled “Conservative Republican Christian” father of the shooter expressing relief that his son is a murderer rather than gay.
When he found out his son had murdered people, the Colorado Springs shooter’s father (who has been a porn actor) responded by saying, “They started telling me about the incident, a shooting... And then I go on to find out it’s a gay bar. I got scared, ‘Shit, is he gay?’ And he’s not gay, so I said, phew … I am a conservative Republican.” (See the video here.)
To revise the adage about apples and trees, the turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole. And that applies not only the shooter’s father, but to all the “Republican” assholes blasting out prodigious amounts of hate-filled shit.
I can think of no one better to rebut he testimony of the advocates for Evil, than a counsel for decency, humanity, the ideal of America, and the teachings of Jesus, the Hon. Mallory McMorrow (View The Speech she gave in April here.):