Now this is my kinda Roman circus.
You know, the kind where the lions pace into the arena...and then lie down, crack a beer, and calmly watch as the Christians eat each other.
Moral purity as the sole measure of office fitness is a self-destructive party platform, dudes.
When your agenda scares away all the creative, imaginative, diverse people of all genders, races, sexual orientations, religions (and LACK of religion) in favor of mean bitter old white straight Christian males, you wind up with a 3-day wake of a political convention comprised mainly of mean bitter old white straight Christian males - one where the visibly rare women and POC are shoved into the front rows and onto the stage to provide an illusion of inclusion the way makeup on a corpse gives the illusion of life.
So naturally the right-wingers are blaming their dropping polls on them not being MORE racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic - they've been just so gosh-darn liberal in not calling for stoning rape victims and immolating gays and outlawing non-fundamentalist-Christian religious practices that their mean old white-bearded white American God is punishing the one true party. I can't wait to see what their 2016 RNC platform will look like. ("Step One: Repeal the 14th, 15th and 19th amendments.")
Republicans are also acting like the Nice Guy(tm) whose creepiness puts off the girl he's hitting on, and who then bawls that the mean bitch turned him down only 'cause he's a prince among men, a Nice Guy, and she only wants to date abusive losers. (Listen to Republican pundits blame those stupid voters for not being smart enough to see what true defenders of democracy their side is for their plummeting numbers - for The Party of Personal Responsibility they sure do refuse to look at their own creepy-ass and hateful behavior as a possible cause of the rift.)
When the opposition's convention mentions the specifics of your own platform more than you do, thanks the people fighting a war you started more than your flag-waving war-touters do, mentions your side's last President (to have him cheered by his political opponents for his good deeds) more than you do, and doesn't have to demand or cajole anyone to be enthusiastic about the gathering, the speeches, or the work ahead?
Looks like the party of bullies got the swirly, the hotfoot, the wedgie, the purple-nurple, and the Sharpied wang on the forehead - and that was just one night.
The party that prides itself on living by the Bible (at least in the parts about oppressing women, treating children like property, and abominating male temple prostitutes) might do well to remember what the phrase "the writing on the wall" refers to.
Meantime? I'm gonna do what I did for three glorious days watching an actual political *party* - sit back and quaff a beer. And speaking of beer...
Moral purity as the sole measure of office fitness is a self-destructive party platform, dudes.
When your agenda scares away all the creative, imaginative, diverse people of all genders, races, sexual orientations, religions (and LACK of religion) in favor of mean bitter old white straight Christian males, you wind up with a 3-day wake of a political convention comprised mainly of mean bitter old white straight Christian males - one where the visibly rare women and POC are shoved into the front rows and onto the stage to provide an illusion of inclusion the way makeup on a corpse gives the illusion of life.
So naturally the right-wingers are blaming their dropping polls on them not being MORE racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic - they've been just so gosh-darn liberal in not calling for stoning rape victims and immolating gays and outlawing non-fundamentalist-Christian religious practices that their mean old white-bearded white American God is punishing the one true party. I can't wait to see what their 2016 RNC platform will look like. ("Step One: Repeal the 14th, 15th and 19th amendments.")
Republicans are also acting like the Nice Guy(tm) whose creepiness puts off the girl he's hitting on, and who then bawls that the mean bitch turned him down only 'cause he's a prince among men, a Nice Guy, and she only wants to date abusive losers. (Listen to Republican pundits blame those stupid voters for not being smart enough to see what true defenders of democracy their side is for their plummeting numbers - for The Party of Personal Responsibility they sure do refuse to look at their own creepy-ass and hateful behavior as a possible cause of the rift.)
When the opposition's convention mentions the specifics of your own platform more than you do, thanks the people fighting a war you started more than your flag-waving war-touters do, mentions your side's last President (to have him cheered by his political opponents for his good deeds) more than you do, and doesn't have to demand or cajole anyone to be enthusiastic about the gathering, the speeches, or the work ahead?
Looks like the party of bullies got the swirly, the hotfoot, the wedgie, the purple-nurple, and the Sharpied wang on the forehead - and that was just one night.
The party that prides itself on living by the Bible (at least in the parts about oppressing women, treating children like property, and abominating male temple prostitutes) might do well to remember what the phrase "the writing on the wall" refers to.
Meantime? I'm gonna do what I did for three glorious days watching an actual political *party* - sit back and quaff a beer. And speaking of beer...