But I forgive her. There is however an urgent need for leading democrats like her to change rhetoric and stop aiding republican narratives by default.
In a passionate speech castigating republican governors whom have come out with statements to the effect that they will not take any Syrian refugees in their states, Senator Warren missed an opportunity to address a bigger and more insidious picture by saying it is “just because these politicians don’t like their [Syrian refugees] religion”. The bigger truth is that republican office-seekers on state and national levels have for some twenty years (give or take) been relinquishing their ability to be swayed by any reason other than those prescribed by the crooked handlers of the “gang” or “mob” they’ve become as the price they pay to gain office and avoid the “career-assassination” they know will be coming in the right wing partisan media if they don’t acquiesce to “purity pledges” and such which have been pioneered as a weapon of “right on right” extortion to rid the party of moderates. Perpetrators of this immense usurpation of political and economic power have been operating in plain sight—in part because the Clinton Administration made the same flawed tacking to the right that the Obama Administration has. The jury is in fellas and madam, no matter what you do, they hate you and want government out of their crooked and heartless ways.
It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Perhaps many republican voters have finally realized that this is what their establishment has limited them to and that it’s always the same—tax cuts means growth. Bush had ten years to put that puppy to the test once and for all. And it tanked, failed, and re-tanked when President Obama caved and extended this 8 year folly to a ten year folly. But sure as you’re born, the same belief is right back driving every republican presidential candidate’s campaigns. The same fear-mongering and skape-goating is in it’s usual place with the blessing of Gang GOP’s chief manipulators. Republican voters seem to want to stop doing the same things over and over expecting different results, but they have been completely cocooned by the right wing media compartment for so long that listening to real reason, even if it comes from democrats, is just out of the question. So they have been throwing their support behind reckless and dangerous outsider fear-mongers like Trump and Carson.
Democrats need also to stop doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. President Obama has proven that no matter how much something makes good sense—and even if you try to validate republican ideas (like making the Heritage Foundation’s concept which became “Romney Care” into the nation-wide Affordable Care Act known as “ObamaCare”) — they will turn on their own ideas rather than cooperate in the tradition of American democracy. This is not evidence of a trend that will eventually correct itself. Something has happened to permanently pull the slats out from underneath the American democracy we all grew up being told is the best thing in the world. And this demands that the few firebrands that we democrats have to not make any easy broad assumptions like saying that the republican governors are turning their backs on Syrian refugees and American traditions because the hate the refugees religion.
The truth is that there is no way to determine that all these governors share the same hate. But they do share the same fears of being destroyed in right wing partisan media as RINOs and squishes if not, dare I say it, liberal leaning lefties. They have all gotten the word of what their reactions and policies are to be from the industrialized paranoia machine which, like all right wing groups throughout history, depend on “skape-goating” for the ability to empower itself as unifier against a common enemy. Reason and rationale don’t matter—only gossip and shared misperception.
Republicans are using victims of terrorism and revolution against their country’s president (Assad) who is not very particular in who he blames or skape-goats for the revolution against him— dropping “barrel bombs” and even using chemical weapons at one point on civilians. These poor people have been getting it from all sides and desperately need compassion. Republican office-holders have been being cleansed by passing through a gauntlet which has existed far too long and has been far too effective (without aggressive legal challenge by wiser political opposition). The republican party has gone from being anti-socialist to being anti-social— worshiping free market totalities and simply choosing not to see or feel anything about the need for upkeep of our civilization or the need to help people in crises transition to better states. We must not give them a defacto edge by perpetuating over-simplifications like religious hatred or racism. They are wringing every bit of political juice out of the Syrian tragedy and we must cease helping this rogue element whom have been departing from American traditional political decorum for two decades. Let these be the times where we wake up to our own truth and decide if we ARE social or if we have become anti-social. There is no middle ground. We have an enemy already in our midst. And it is we.