^^This sums up US politics.
Republicans mock disabled people, veterans, POWs. They openly sow hatred against any who want to stand up for humanity. They pick on the most vulnerable with no consideration or decency. They fuck porn chicks, transfer minors across state lines for sex. They openly call for the end of democracy, and it's just another day.
They simply deny everything and carry on destroying the planet.
Meanwhile, the Dems scramble to refute every bullshit sideshow distraction the fascists bring up (using unprecedented dirty tricks and illegal tactics) and give credence to the opposition by doing so, and the press amplifies every bit of it, while ignoring Trump's full on dementia and fascism and contempt for everyone but himself.
Y'all are a goddam mess.
This is a main reason “they” say liberals are stupid; “bringing a policy paper to a knife fight”, is how they used to say it.
it not only ‘elevates’ the bullshit by taking it seriously, it recenters a serious flaw in liberal assessments of “conservative” motivations: the failed notion that they “just don’t understand”, they’re mistaken, old-fashioned, ‘traditional’, & only lack a proper explanation to clear things up.
That Australia-sized blind-spot is how we let things get to the current stage - and the 10-20 stages prior to that - by never calling on their bullshit ‘cause cordiality
in the interest of code-switching, please take this on board for some thought: when I was a kid in the Deep South there was a pretty popular song, the chorus went, “save your confederate money, boys, the south will rise again”. I thought it was funny, silly at the time. They meant it. Then and NOW.
The confederacy is still striving to beat the union, TODAY, and we see them in the House of Representatives every day, waving their dicks at the USA, showing a fine patriotic disregard for the nation & its very design, straining to turn the clock of history back ~160 years, and creating enough chaos, division & dysfunction to buffalo the public into breaking faith w/ what the founders called our civic religion.