I created this website a few months ago with the intent of providing a dispassionate analysis of political demographics. But I soon realized the world in general was only slightly less interested in it than I was. After six months, I had only mustered two posts.
Meanwhile, I’ve been watching with a mixture of horror, revulsion and astonishment as the right-wing attack machine has ginned up its crazies with the most ridiculous collection of lies I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
First, there were the birthers, who insist (despite frequently documented proof to the contrary), that President Obama was born in Kenya and is therefore not a citizen. Apparently, his parents took out a announcement in the Honolulu newspaper within days of his birth because a biracial child, with no connections, born in 1961, was such a can’t-miss prospect for the presidency that they had to cover up his overseas birth in order to preserve his political future. Yeah, at a time when black people couldn’t live next door to white people or even sit down at a lunch counter in much of this country, Barack Obama’s parents just knew he was bound to be president someday.
Then, the health-care “debate” has been one of the most ludicrous episodes in the history of America. We have a bunch of gun-toting lunatics coming to rallies carrying pictures of the President of the United States sporting a Hitler mustache AND calling him a communist, which is a really interesting and original melding of two opposite political ideologies. We are told that the president is going to convene “death panels” to kill our grandparents. We are also told that all this is somehow part of a plot by a Muslim, non-citizen usurper of the Oval Office to weaken his own country so that his Muslim terrorist friends can run amok right on our own soil.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any more ridiculous, the right-wing kookosphere is now complaining about President Obama’s upcoming speech to schoolchildren. Apparently, the president’s message that kids should do their homework, stay in school and get an education is just an evil plot to turn them into communists.
So, to recap, apparently our president is a Nazi communist Muslim terrorist, constitutionally ineligible for the presidency because his heavily pregnant mother flew to Kenya from Hawaii to give birth to him and then lied about it, who wants to kill Grandma and brainwash Junior.
I can’t believe I actually have to deconstruct this, but here goes.
First of all, Nazism and communism, while both totalitarian, are diametrically opposed political concepts. You can be one or the other, but not both simultaneously. Nazism is about capitalist state control, communism is about socialist state control.
And by the way, communism isn’t real big on religion, so if you’re a communist, it is improbable that you are also going to belong to one of the most fundamentalist religions on the planet.
While we’re at it, let’s clear up another point. The president doesn’t have “Muslim blood.” Islam is a religion, not an ethnicity. Even if the president were a Muslim (which he is not), it’s not in his blood. (A lot of really dumb people say the same thing about Jews, and that’s also stupid. Judaism isn’t a race, it’s a religion.)
I’ve already discussed how ridiculous it is to believe, in spite of documentary evidence to the contrary, that the president was not born in Hawaii (which, for those 8 percent of you North Carolina Republicans who recently told pollsters that Hawaii is not part of America, really is the 50th state).
The death panels and the brainwashing of our schoolchildren are so ludicrous that I’m not even going to bother.
Now, to the title of this post. When I hear all this ludicrous, crazy shit, over and over again, and I see that there are people who actually believe it, and prominent conservatives who continue to encourage it, I find myself coming to an inescapable conclusion:
THESE PEOPLE ARE STONE COLD FUCK NUTS.
And when I arrive at this inescapable conclusion, another inescapable conclusion follows: there is no longer any room for bipartisanship in America.
Bipartisanship can work when sane, rational people on the left sit down with sane, rational people on the right and find common ground. But it can not possibly work when one side is dominated by irrational nut cases.
As frustrated as I am by the utterly shocking lies and stupidities being spewed on the right, I am even more frustrated with the fact that some Democrats are still trying to find common ground with these morons, nutcases and liars. Listen, there are three groups of people you can’t negotiate with: children, drunks and lunatics. And right now, the conservative side of the aisle is increasingly dominated by people who are acting like at least two of those three groups.
It’s time to stop trying to negotiate with people who have no interest in negotiating with us. Let’s use our big majorities in Congress while we still have them and ram through as much of our agenda as we can. They’re going to whine and cry whether we’re nice or whether we’re bastards, and they’re going to dig in their heels, hold their breath and stamp their feet whether we meet them halfway or give them bupkus. So let’s give them bupkus.
I’ve had enough. Are you with me?
