Maher: 'Governing This Country With Republicans is Like Rooming With a Meth Addict'
Bill Maher nails the GOP for their useless conspiratorial bullshit, and when you stack up the GOP's "concerns", you find a lot of hysterically feared utter bullshit. Fear, lies, distractions, these are weapons in the new Class War.
Talk to your average Right Wing Media consuming Republican. They don't know shit. They are the most misinformed media consumers out there.. They think Unions are greedy and the rich deserve their tax breaks. These clowns literally don't know their asses from their elbows.
I have seen these people myself in my times of travel cross country, and I stand by my claims about the average Right Wing Media consuming Republican, for I have met with the wingnuts, and they are still and always very scared and dumb as hell.
Ask if Wall Street is a problem. They could care less. But Black People are intimidating voters! OMG!
Should our Health Insurance system be reformed? HELL NO! Any attempt to reform the health insurance cartels is obviously a socialist job killing death panel.
What about job outsourcing corporations that don't pay taxes? Republican voters, fox viewers, RW AM radio listeners, they don't give a shit. Hell, most of them think taxes are too high! Most of them have no idea that President Obama has given tax cuts to 95% of working Americans. Most of them have no idea that America's current tax revenue intake is at 1950 levels.
Republicans don't know any of this. They prefer their conspiracies. They prefer the following agenda to that of consumer protection or workers rights or equality.
Thus, I am always pleased when I hear others in the media mocking these looney, out of touch, fear and hate riddled fools for what they are, which is batshit insane.
With that said, I give you Bill Maher.
Here is the link for the full transcript of the video above, and a little bit of the good stuff transcribed by CrooksandLiars.com
MAHER: New Rule – Fantasies are for sex, not public policy. When you go down the list of useless distractions that make up the Republican Party agenda; public unions and Sharia law, anchor babies and a mosque at ground zero, ACORN and National Public Radio, the war on Christmas, the New Black Panthers, Planned Parenthood, Michelle Obama’s war on desserts…
…you realize that one reason nothing gets done in America is that one of the political parties puts so much more into fantasy problems. Governing this country with Republicans is like rooming with a meth addict.
You want to address real life problems like when the rent is due and they’re saying “How can you even think of that stuff when there’s police scanner voices coming out of the air conditioning unit?”
Thank you, Fox News and RW radio, for turning a large swath of our population into paranoid crackpots.
You see, the point here is more of the same, more class war. Let's go back to the good ole days of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, when markets were free and workers were not, when the rich were Robber-Barons and the rest of us lived in Hoovervilles. The only way to achieve this is to use a divide and conquer strategy on the public, so along with our Great Depressions, we must have some Great Distractions.
And we are in a second Great Depression. Trust me. This is it. The problem is there are literally Two America's now, as John Edwards once put it. One is having a Great Depression, the other is a plutocracy with zero poverty that feels that it owes NOTHING to the other America and refuses to "share the sacrifice" at all. In order for this massive inequality to exist there must be distractions, and lots of them, which the media and corrupt politicians will always gladly trumpet and exploit, social wedge issues and conspiracy theories, which is EXACTLY what death panels and birthers and one world government theorists and sharia law fear mongering, all of it is anti government on a level, and wholly marketed grade a bullshit from a subsidiary of a multinational corporation that just dodged another year of paying taxes in the USA. America was founded with a flawed sense of equality, but the concept of some kind of equality as opposed to royalty was central to the founding of the American system of Government. The super rich, the economic royalty which is waging this class war against the rest of us peasants must reject equality at all levels. The class war shock doctrine agenda of the corporatists must have a divided working class to succeed. When the working classes unite, in protest as in Wisconsin and Ohio and elsewhere, or when working class people go on strike, or organize and unionize, whenever the mass of the population fights back the class war is not as easy for the economic royalty and their paid for toadies. The veil comes off, and the conspiracy theory driven corporatists are revealed for what they truly are to those who have not been so propagandized that they can no longer see it.
That is who the Republican party consists of today in America. People who are misinformed, afraid, suffering, and fear mongered into blaming some distraction, some boogeyman, some "other", all while the fat cat lying in his ear is picking his pocket and blaming someone else. Often I am asked how many people in America are just too stupid to ever get it, how many people are just so dumb they will never learn. My answer is always "22%". That was George W. Bush's approval rating on the day Obama was sworn into the Oval Office.
That 22% of America is Fox News viewers, AM radio listeners, often conspiracy theorists, hell, the whole GOP economic theory is a debunked theory! Trickle Down, anyone?
I honestly believe that the best way to improve America is for the left and progressives to just not even fucking bother trying to convince the idiots on the right why they are lied to and wrong. I think we would be better served going to independents and wayward voters on the left and reassuring them that without them, the meth addicts get to run us into the ground again, lie us into war again, take away more of our rights and sell us down the river to the first special interest that outbids the others. To win in the future, I believe DC Democrats as well as Democratic Activists and others on the left should give up entirely on trying to reason with Republicans. They are unreasonable. Better to appeal to a coalition of the sane among independent and Dem leaning voters, because as Bill Maher so aptly notes, we can't deal with REAL problems facing America today when one of the two parties we have to work with is literally losing their mind before our eyes. We can't address real life problems like when the rent is due when they’re saying “How can you even think of that stuff when there’s police scanner voices coming out of the air conditioning unit?”
Distract, divide and conquer.
The Republican Party is the reason why we can't have nice things in America anymore.
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