It's All a Game??

“I began to realize it was real work. It wasn’t a game,” he said. “The decisions you make are important. The work is important. It affects lives.”  THIS IS A STATEMENT BY A REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLYMAN.

What I have always felt, and this is a stereotype is that Republicans run for office to add to their resume...to impress their Rotarian friends, to be part of a club of always adding to their resumes, their position in the corporate business scheme of things.

Most of their votes are self serving in most ways, going with the party line which is easy since the party line ALWAYS benefits business and the corporate bosses and culture.

So they hate liberals...they hate civil rights.  they live in a world of haves and have nots, and always blame the have nots.

This is what you hear right..."The homless are mostly lazy and refuse to work".  "These people are working the system to get welfare"... "Food stamps are a scam...look at all the cheating".

Now they soften their guilt, AND THEY HAVE GUILT, by trooping into mega-churches that are built on anti-abortion zealotry with millions of dollars.  They rail against the lefties who are for killing babies.  This of course ignores the miniscule number of abortions that are done every year.

But to somehow atone for their sell outs and whoring of their social responsiblity, they decide to dictate to others moral imperatives.

So we get the Moral Majority bullshit.  We get the health care crisis because Republicans are always trying to repeal and replace human  compassion with a world of vengence of punishment for being LAZY.

And of course you can never convince them with statistics and science that the vast majority of the unemployed and the poor are there for things beyond their control.  They fret about the "deficit" ALL THE TIME...but relish getting taxes cut for the rich or their interests like it is a game.  It's all a game of screwing government, of destroying unions, of ripping public anything...and for sure not believing in global warming.

Of course, their grandparents as "Make America Firsters", refused to commit the United States to fighting fascism until it was almost too late....putting the world in critical jeapordy and costing 55 millions lives.  The Republicans fought and defeated Wilson by staying out of the League of Nations, missing multiple opportunities to stop Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. 

Their foolishness and again, selfishness, almost destroyed the world.

And today, what do we see...why.... they elected Trump....who stands at the precipice of already being the worst President we have ever had. 

So now this assemblyman, who is getting slammed by his party for voting for cap and trade and actually believing in global climate change.  This breaks the "code" of the GOP, that it must be one the wrong side of history all the time.

Why are they always wrong...why?  When you represent minority interests, when you believe that you not we count above all else; you do wrong things and think being a legislator is a "game".

WWII was not a game..the Civil War was not a game!  And the GOP is not a game!