I should learn to abstain from browsing political news on
Monday mornings. Getting myself out of bed, showered, dressed and to work on
time is challenge enough, I don’t need a further assault on my senses by
reading articles about our frighteningly ignorant, dangerously delusional
leaders. I need to ease into it, prepare myself mentally for the tsunami of
absurdity that passes for politics in America today. Why make Monday’s tougher
than they already are?
Today, however, it’s too late. I dove headfirst into Raw
Story, The Huffington Post, Truthout, and Salon and found myself treading water
in a cesspool of profound lunacy, hypocrisy, misogyny, bigotry, and…I could
keep going, but I’ll stop there. From the Governor of Indiana trying lamely to
rationalize the inherent bigotry of his “Religious Freedom” law to the droopy
faced Ted Cruz wishing the White House could be moved to Texas where people
like him to “The Dumbest Person in Congress” Louie Gohmert’s assertion that
negotiations with Iran have already failed and we should just fly there and
bomb their nuclear facilities.
The gravity of their stupidity has me reeling. The level of
government to which they have ascended has me terrified. Whatever name you want
to give our election system, it has failed us and allowed dangerously inept
people into the halls of power, and the media is forced to take them seriously.
How bad is it? The FOX News host who was interviewing Gohmert was visibly
stunned and disturbed by his loony plan to bomb Iran. When, as a Republican,
you can say something so inane it makes a FOX News host shudder, you have
literally crossed the line into a clinically recognized mental disorder.
You can’t unthink this stuff. The Republicans running for
President are crazy, and one of them could end up in the Oval Office. America
has been given the opportunity to elect a person who would make George Bush
look like FDR. It’s Monday morning and I’ve already had my week’s fill of
stupidity. Thanks, me.
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