There's No One Left [View all]

I’ll be giving away my age by saying that once upon a time, there were Republicans who were moral and ethical, who enacted legislation that was for the betterment of their constituents and for the nation.

Once upon a time, the Republican party included true statesmen, eloquent orators, military heroes – principled men who drew the line at abandoning those principles in exchange for money and/or power.

Believe it or not, once upon a time (and not so very long ago), the powers-that-be in the GOP, faced with the depths of Nixon’s corruption, told him to resign rather than be impeached and convicted – despite the political consequences to their own ‘brand’ as a result of doing so.

Those people are all gone now – every last one of them. The Republican party now consists of self-serving idiots who are obviously not interested in their constituents’ wishes nor their welfare (see American Rescue Plan and tighter gun-control), but are focused instead on advancing their own political careers by kissing as many asses as necessary – and one big orange ass in particular.

Gone forever are the Republicans once lauded for their intelligent grasp of the issues, and their ability to debate them. They’ve been replaced by people like Cruz, Boebert and Taylor-Greene – liars, stupid-as-fuck idiots, and whack-job conspiracy theorists.

Gone forever are Republicans willing to stand up for their country and their fellow citizens – when it’s so much easier to pretend that what their fellow citizens saw on January 6th didn’t really happen, when it’s so politically convenient to act as though the obvious isn’t really obvious at all.

There is nothing left of the Republican party that even remotely resembles what it once was. There is no one left to be a shining example – or any example at all – of country over party, or even fact over sensationalized propaganda. There are no Republicans to be reached-out-to on the basis of upholding the truth versus promoting the utterly ridiculous.

There is NO ONE LEFT in the Republican party who isn’t willing to sell out their own country in order to win the approval of a lard-assed con-man who lost them the Senate, the House, and the presidency.

And the fact that an entire political party is willing to stand with that man speaks for itself.