America is split red, blue, black, white, Mountain, flat, Christian, secular, North, South, rural, urban — and of late brown and bigot. But we can all take joy in one shared commonality we all suffer together. We are all experiencing the worst President in modern American history.
What can we actually put on the head of Poor George? Sure he has all the makings of a bad President and a rather horrible human being. He is stubborn, proudly unread, and a mush mouthed cowboy rube who like the Taliban he so deplores, looks to the violence inherent in religious dogma rather than common sense to do his deciding. But a stupid President is not the core to our most enduring problems, after all, wars come and go.
No, it is not Poor George, rather it is the Republican Party that has laid us flat in most every area of our lives, except of course for those on the very top of the system. Whether the shoddy care of our veterans at Walter Reed or some similar story which plays whenever the GOP is in charge of anything at all. They have pushed our military to the breaking point while supporting the worst foreign policy in American history. They try to remove all regulations regarding politicians gathering money while screeching their intense nationalism. They push to end Social Security, moving more children into poverty and out of health care while re-segregating public schools, refusing to fund them and making it more expensive for us send our kids to college. They have reduced our wages and benefits causing credit card debt rising beyond the means of millions to ever pay while they are now foreclosing on more homes since the Great Depression. They have pushed health care coverage ever more beyond our means with the only answer being "Get thine loser ass to the emergency room!". They take pleasure in fouling our nest while they refusing to wipe even their own asses. Of late they have been on the rampage to build a wall bigger than the Great Wall of China, round up tens of millions of ethnically defined people, put them in detention camps and deport them. Whether abandoning our veterans or an entire African American city, they screech for ever more tax breaks while sacrificing nothing as the blood of our children flows into the sand in a faraway land.
This all began in earnest when a fair haired old salesman preached his silly philosophy from a bully pulpit on Pennsylvania Avenue: The Government is not the solution, but the problem. From that came conservative control of AM radio which brought us Rush Limbaugh and the Gingrich Revolution. And from then on the very basis of the GOP was to reduce their taxes, of every kind, every year, year after year after year. This has not only increased our disparity of wealth (the stuff of revolution) and caused bridges to fall on our heads, but has left the vast majority or us with only a buck in the bank and ever fewer places to go for ever less help while they fly around in ever larger Lear jets full of Bimbos covered in cake. Which I suppose we are welcome to eat whenever we are invited on one of their world wide golfing trips.
The GOP succeeded in all this by realizing long before Democrats that the people (like our President) do not read and are unable to grasp much of anything beyond the attention span of a Trilobite. So they pushed their sound bites over the air and from the Well of Congress shifting the debate from what is important to what is not: Homos! Taking all our guns away! Abortion! Immigration! Blacks and Mexicans stealing our jobs! And of course the mainstay of fascism for millennia, that mix of jingo patriotism, capitalist purity and Talibanie religion. But mostly it has been that unyielding repetitive sound bite defining all Liberals and Democrats as God hating, evil, un-American, Communist, Libertine, French loving, Politically Correct Nazi Hypocrites! A job they did so well that even Hillary Clinton ran from the word a few weeks ago. My God, they even managed to get that process into the dictionary, Femenazis.
The question is much like the smaller question of who to blame for O’Reilly’s and Limbaugh’s power and success. Is it Bill and Rush, the money that backs them, the mainstream media who fears them or that mindless mob who sucks up to them? Your call.