Yet another right-wing shooter went berserk over the weekend, this one in California. His mother – who sounds like a real piece of work herself, given that the shooter took most of his guns from her supply – says her sprog was angry about “the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items.”
It flabbergasts me that we have a Congress that has more Democrats in its majority than the Republicans ever had from 1995-2007, that we have a President who was elected by a much greater margin than George W. Bush ever managed, and yet somehow, anything they attempt to pass is some sort of affront to what “the America people” actually want. When, that is, they can pass anything – because in classic Texas fashion, you no longer win by having the most votes. Thanks to the fact that Senate rules are about seventy years out of date for modern political norms, a vote of 59-41 means that the 41 carries the day.
We’ve given politics over to the worst crop of ignorant rednecks imaginable, and I don’t know what’s worse: that they’re allowed to be part of the process, or that there are non-redneck Republicans who will go along with them in November just because that’s notionally their team. For whatever reason, nobody ever has to apologize for the crackers. Nobody has to answer for those who question whether the President is a citizen. Nobody ever has to REPUDIATE endless ever-so-veiled remarks about “Second Amendment solutions.” And yes, the word is “repudiate” – there is no such word as “refudiate,” you stupid, stupid (INSERT PREFERRED HURTFUL EPITHET HERE).
So yes – when this country goes down the shitter, just so you know, it happened because we allowed our political elites to declare that the goal, ideal, and apotheosis of American political life was the cast of Hee Haw.