DU declares, "THIS IS WAR"

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THIS IS WAR


The pathetic cries from Republicans this week have been truly astounding in their tone-deafness and out-and-out stupidity – which sadly have become the hallmarks of a party desperate to distract from the obvious fact that their pResident is a fricking moron bent on the destruction of our democracy.

I keep hearing pleas from the GOP for everyone to be civil, while their Dear Leader continues to fan the flames of incivility every time he opens his mouth – or “tweets” his bullshite, being too cowardly to do otherwise.

“Let’s respect each other and find common ground,” they say – which is like saying that if only the Jews and the Nazis had sat down together and been civil to each other, they could come up with a Final Solution that would be acceptable to all concerned.

I remember when Republicans loved to quote Dubya saying “we don’t negotiate with terrorists”, which has now become “we don’t negotiate with our allies”. Let’s remember the now-infamous cry of ensuring that Obama was a one-term president, a tack the GOP adopted and strictly adhered to from the day Obama took office. The same people who cried “give Trump a chance” had already decided that Obama was to be given NO chance before he even embarked on his presidency, and long before he’d done anything for them to complain about.

In their desperation to normalize Trump, the Republicans simply say of his lying, his corruption, and his complete disdain for the rule of law, “Oh, that’s just who he is.” Well, Hitler was just who he was, too – and that didn’t work out well for the six million people who were exterminated, the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians, and the utter destruction that followed in his wake.

What the Republicans are now attempting to do is to frame the division between citizens as a minor disagreement between good-intentioned Americans who are equally stubborn, equally angry, equally unwilling to sit down over a couple of brewskies and hammer-out a compromise between those who believe in our democracy and those who think democracy is an outdated, over-rated concept that is no longer relevant.

What is happening in our country is not some vague disagreement between political factions; it is a war between good and evil. It is a battle between those who are horrified by children being kidnapped and warehoused in cages and those who think it’s a grand idea. It is a fight between those who are willing to abandon every principle they’ve ever embraced, every religious tenet they’ve ever held sacred, every freedom they once held dear, in order to blindly follow a lying, corrupt racist whose mental state is questionable at best, and whose subservience to our enemies is beyond obvious.

Above all, the debate we are now supposed to engage in can never be argued based on the facts, because one side no longer recognizes anything other than the “alternative facts” they have come to accept without question. If Trump declares that two plus two equals eight, his adherents will scramble to adjust their mathematical thinking to accommodate his decree – and don’t find anything odd about his declaration two hours later that two plus two actually equals seventy-six.

This is not a matter of let’s play nice and get along, because the Dear Leader of the opposition is the one who is dividing us – by race, by class, by colour, by ethnic origins – in order to keep us at war with each other.

I’ve heard several GOP spokes-whores in the past week state that people who are being confronted in public – like Sarah Huckabee and Kirstjen Nielsen – have a private life that should be acknowledged as sacrosanct when they are out in public and away from their jobs. I guess the Republicans haven’t noticed that the parents whose babies have been stolen don’t get to take off their prison garb after work hours and gather at a local eatery – in the same way they’re unaware that concentration camp inmates never got to check out of Auschwitz at five o’clock and just be “regular folk” at the local beer hall. “Oh, look, there’s Mengele at the next table – let’s forget he’s an inhumane a monster while he’s off the clock.”

In a last-ditch attempt to try and convince the populace that Herr Trump is anything other than the monster HE is, the GOP has taken to dangling shiny objects before their brain-dead constituents, things like “the rule of law” being expendable, and “massive tax-cuts for the middle-class” being a few dollars more in a paycheck that won’t even put a dent in the debt they’ve incurred on behalf of the hard-working Americans they’ve sworn to serve and protect from an escalating national debt that only benefits the wealthiest among us.

It’s often been said that there are none so blind as those who will not see, and we are now at a point in our national discourse where those who truly love their country have seen the pointlessness of engaging with the wilfully blind. They are beyond the reach of common sense, as well as being beyond the call of human decency. There can be no civility between those who revere our freedoms and those blindly obedient to a man who seeks to destroy them.

So buckle-up your seatbelts, true Americans – we’re in for a bumpy ride in the days to come. Stay vigilant, stay focused, and as we have been told, “If you see something, SAY something”. And if that something looks like a Hitler wanna-be and his minions, shout it down from the rooftops before it’s too late to say anything at all.

We, the decent people who abhor the nightmare of the Trump “presidency” must unite in our efforts to save our country from the ignorant fool who was installed in the Oval Office by equally ignorant fools – with no small assistance from our country’s enemies.

The time is now, our objectives are unmistakable, our cause is just – and the incessant whinging of our enemies is our clarion call.

It’s time to show Republicans what “stand your ground” looks like when that position is upheld and defended by real patriots who love their country, and refuse to accept defeat as an option.

So go ahead, Sarah and Kirstjen, and whine about the fact that decent people don’t want you in their midst. I’m sure Goebles and Goering faced the same insensitivity – and yet somehow managed to muddle through without whining like the pigs everyone knew them to be.

This IS war, people - and those who started it are now begging for a truce before they get their asses kicked in November. Tell them, no uncertain terms, that our defeat is not an option, and they are about to go down with the titanic idiot they chose to cling to as the icy waters of reality drown them all.

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