I got a gem of a fundraising letter from Nikki Haley wringing its hands over leftist “bullies” (9 times) and anti-freedom leftist “mobs” (32 times). So, if I love my country, I should donate to its right-wing summer camp-thing for college students.
Too many howlers to list, and its plumply redundant 8 pages could be cut to a page and a half and lose nothing but its rubber mallet repetition. The best phrase:
“And you and I must stand up to all who bully and oppress.”
Ah, yes. The Republican party, its numbers shrinking, lost the popular vote for President 6 of the last 7 elections, openly reliant on gerrymandering and voter suppression and the undemocratic Electoral College to hold to power. Yet it holds the White House, Senate, and Supreme Court. Always put-upon, always whining it’s oppressed. And Trump, who bullies and bitches and preaches for uprisings against political rivals every day.
I’m not a fan of the Democratic party establishment. Its leadership is also too concerned with holding institutional power and refuses to make changes, that most citizens support, that help regular people because those changes would irk corporate donors. They love the professional class and also make kissy faces to Wall Street at our expense.
But, really, with Trump and the Republicans controlling three of four centers of Federal power (used to be all four), jailing peaceful protestors, giving detained asylum seekers and immigrants involuntary hysterectomies, shooting at the media and moms, proudly spreading virus — who’s being the bully and oppressor?
Wasn’t Melania going to rid us all of bullying? She done with that yet?
