I saw an article in Vanity Fair Magazine titled: Met Gala 2023 Red Carpet: See All the Fashion, Outfits & Looks. In looking at the photos, I suddenly understood something about the Republican Party. I saw all those vacuous people, dressed in outrageous costumes, each trying to out-shock out-shameless, out-deprave the others, I, at last, realized what you already may realize. The GOP has become a fashion show for empty-headed vicious, gun-toting. bigoted haters. You may remember when the GOP was the staid, common-sense party, the calm, sober, solemn, religious party. It was the party of Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. No flashy, wild ideas there.

It was the party of kind, friendly, “everyman” Ronald Reagan. It was the party of the Bushes. That party had ideas: Fiscal responsibility. Business growth. Military strength. Above all, honesty. It was the party of honesty (despite a few peccadillos here and there). These people had honor. Their lies were in the “normal” politician’s range. They would be embarrassed by the public’s discovering their lies. They were family men who didn’t cheat or at least hid their cheating. Their voters would have rejected a man known to be a cheater. The men were realists, so far as any politicians are realists. They were patriots. The believed in democracy. They despised authoritarianism and the Hitlers, Stalins, Maos, and Mussolinis of the world. Some were in the military. They were intelligent men. They attended church. They surrounded themselves with intelligent people. Similarly, their voters tended to be the more educated, more intelligent, more honorble people, of the sort, who would not easily be conned by a carnival barker or by a hate monger, or by a superficial psychopath. Each man was different. Each had his faults. But all followed the  overall straightlaced tendency of the Republican Party. That was what Republican voters wanted. Then came Donald Trump, and everything changed for the GOP. He lacked intelligence. He lacked ideas. He lacked a philosophy. He lacked morals. At one time he was a Democrat. Then he was a Republican. He lied incessantly. Thousands upon thousands of lies. He lied about his grades in school. He lied about his “heel  spurs” so he could avoid military service. He lied about his business plans. He lied in business. He cheated his employees out of their wages. He cheated his lenders. He cheated his financial backers. He criticized soldiers who gave their lives in battle as suckers. He was not embarrassed by disclosure of his lies. He had three wives, and cheated on all three and boasted about it. He won not by expressing reasonable theories but rather by extremism. He won because he was outrageous. He taught Republicans that to gain attention you have to be ridiculous to the extreme. Being unintelligent and amoral, and incompetent, he surrounded himself with, or befriended way to many unintelligent, and/or amoral, often criminal, mostly incompetent people, who had no plan for the betterment of America, but only for personal power. Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, Tom Price, Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross. Steven Mnuchin Scott Pruitt. Michael Cohen, Chris Collins, Tom Barrack, Dinesh D’Souza, Michael Flynn, Igor Fruman, Michael Cohen, Rick Gates, Duncan Hunter, Corey Lewandowski, Paul Manafort, George Nader, Peter Navaro, George Papadapoulos, Lev Parnas, Brad Parscale, Roger Stone, Allen Weiselberg, Lewis Libby, and dozens upon dozens of others. Thus today, we have the GOP, a party willing to forgive and and to cover up an attempted overthrow of the democratically elected government of the United States, the single most traitorous act in America’s history. We have the GOP, that features such lying incompetents, who would have been ostracized from previous Republican organizations, as Marjorie  Taylor Greene, George Santos, Kari Lake, Madison Cawthorn, Herschel Walker, Rick Scott, Mike Lee Ron Johnson, Ron DeSantis, Mitch McConnell, , Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Elise Stefanik, Paul Gosar, Louis Gohmert, Andrew Clyde, Gregg Abbott, Kristi Noem, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, Tucker Carlson, Mike Pompeo, the entire Fox “News” group, Breitbart, Kanye West, QAnon, OANN, white supremacists, nazis, fascists. All of this has become the new normal for the GOP. Rather than despising despots, Trump and his GOP admire them and hope to be them. Trump’s admiration for Putin is legendary. His affection for Kim is written in love letters. His similarity to Hitler is stunning. IN SUMMARY The GOP has descended into performance art, similar to Hollywood, and fashion where the most outrageous performer gets all the attention and voices of reason are ignored. Part of this is due to the Internet, where people get their news in tiny bites because there are so many sources of news it’s difficult for anyone to focus on just a few. To break through the avalanche of information, misinformation, and disinformation, and to penetrate the public’s consciousness the public has been conditioned to ignore the safe, sane, and truthful in favor of the outrageous, “did she really say that” lie. And because the GOP has no real plans, and primarily devotes itself to throwing stones at any Democrats’ plans, along with trying to reduce benefits for the poor and middle-classes, while increasing benefits for the rich, it devotes itself to the powerful emotions, outrage, hatred, and envy. Thus, you have Donald Trump convincing his MAGA base that Mexican immigrants are rapists and drug dealers, and blacks are criminals and animals, and Muslims are terrorists, and the poor are lazy takers, and gays are “groomers,” but nazis, white supremacists, and traitors attacking Congress are “good people.” And his base, the MAGAs, being less educated and possibly less intelligent than the median American is more naive about conspiracy theories. and believing of such conspiracy theorists as Alex Jones. His base is the perfect audience for the outrageous lies thrown at them And the GOP knows it. So they give the people what they want: Lies, bigotry, hatred, fear, and conspiracies. No, the government is not planting microchips in your body via vaccination, and no, Hillary Clinton is not holding children in the basement of a pizza parlor. An irreligious man, who cheats on his wives and consorts with hookers, has the backing of conservative evangelical Christians (!) and the Church of Jesus Christ Later Day Saints (Mormons) (!) And somehow these religious people are able to justify their hatred of immigrants and people of color, and gay people, and deny America’s history of bigotry, and rationalize their blind support for a man so antithetical to everything their God has preached because they are enthralled with his embrace of hell. He has planted fear in their minds, and then presented himself as their savior. and amazingly, they believe him, so powerful is their hatred. The more religious they are, the more they believe. Their piety has primed them to believe the impossible. They confuse the man’s psychopathy with strength, though in truth, he is weak, morally, psychologically, and physically. If the GOP was a TV show, one would conclude they have jumped the shark. Through Donald Trump the GOP has sold its soul to the devil, and we all know how that story ends.   Rodger Malcolm Mitchell Monetary Sovereignty Twitter: @rodgermitchell Search #monetarysovereignty Facebook: Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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