Here’s a definition of hypocrisy from the Oxford Languages dictionary: “the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform.”
The GOP, the Right, the Republican Party - whatever you want to call it - is the living embodiment of hypocrisy. The party of religious righteousness, the party of law and order has lined up like so many little sucklings behind the most corrupt, lying, treasonous, felonous, pedophile- and sex-traffic-shielding, putrid gelatinous mass of man-meat this nation has ever produced - Donald Trump.
What’s even more disturbing than a bunch of politicians lining up to suckle at the teats of power, is the fact that tens of millions of Americans - those who still support Donald Trump - are doing the same thing. They have forsaken any morals they claim to have in favor of shamelessly groping at power.
Here’s what support for Donald Trump really means:
it means you support the destruction of America, the destruction of American freedoms, the destruction of American balance of power, the destruction of the separation of church and state, the destruction of the rule of law, the destruction of opportunity itself; in short, it means the destruction of the very ideals that America was founded on, ideals that our founding fathers codified in a system of government to guard against tyranny like Trump’s;
the items in bullet #1 are leading us down the road of ever-increasing wealth and power accumulation in the top 0.0001% of the world’s population; the wealth gap in the world today is greater than ever in human history - even in medieval/feudal times that was rife with haves and have-nots…lords and peasants - and in a near future, if you’re not a billionaire or trillionaire, you are the peasant;
this road leads us all into effective financial slavery and worse…If you have kids, you should be concerned about their future as sex slaves to the billionaires and trillionaires.
An old marine veteran once asked me why I never joined the military and I told him that it was because there wasn’t a modern war that was right or just, not worth dying for, and certainly not worth killing for, but that if America was ever invaded, I’d be the first to fight.
I never thought the invasion would come from within.