Republicans for years and years and years have played the disinformation card. Playing up BS populists policies and nurturing and benefiting from the right-wing noise machine which has twists and distorts the public debate into baloney wedge issues and outright lies about the other side.
Now that all the braindead zealots who have been raised on nothing but junk-food information over the last twenty years are actually turning on their representatives, and in turn stabbing themselves as well as any republican in the back. I'd like to feel smug about this, I'd like to say, they made the bed they're lying in, I'd like to see the republican party violently implode and become the marginalized voice of the few wealthy backers it actually works for.
But I can't, I can't because the stakes at the moment are too high, the consequences are deadly serious, and there's nothing amusing about a fuckup that is already earning us back nothing but tragedy and still has the potential to become a catastrophic failure.
I'm hoping some good can come of this. Some reevaluation of how information is disseminated, or perhaps a new bedrock for some real progressive policies for the future. But all I think is going to happen is that people in the mainstream will be further divided, and the smoking ruins left behind will only cause more finger pointing and absolved responsibility.
