The lies and illogic that Republicans and their spokespeople confounds me. Their newest one is that they have to believe and to convince people that they would be better off without health care insurance.
How do they do it? How do they go around spouting such illogic all the time? Do they believe these things? And even if they do not, do their followers – the ones who go into voting booths around the country and vote against their own interests?
Then I recalled a passage from Lewis Carroll’s Alice through the Looking Glass.
Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
These people have been practicing believing impossible things. They are really good at it.
For a small sample of the nonsense, slip down through the orange rabbit hole.
Here are some of their lies, new and old:
Rand Paul is going around telling people how he’s the most pro-minority member of the Senate.
Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
Barack Obama is a terrorist.
Global warming does not exist. (The mega storms, fires and waves may be the shock therapy that we need to convince some people of otherwise.)
Women’s health care turns them into sluts.
Not explaining the facts of life to kids will keep teenage kids from getting pregnant.
Romney is a job creator.
There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Saddam Hussein was supporting Al Qaeda.
Oh, and Benghazi. I don’t know what you’re supposed to say about Benghazi, but shout it a lot, especially on Sunday morning.
More guns make you and everyone safer, especially if you’re at a school, shopping mall, supermarket or movie theater.
We could go on, and on, but I won’t because they do. I think some of the believers want harder stuff to believe. It’s kind of like moving to the next level in the game of illogic.
The Red Queen shook her head, "You may call it "nonsense" if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"
White Queen eventually turns into a sheep, which also seems to be another fitting metaphor for a huge portion of the country.
The White Queen is charming and scatterbrained, but unfortunately, the lies are hurting our country and our world. What happens then?
"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday — but never jam to-day."
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Tired of politics? Need to escape? Try
one of my Greek-mythology based novels, either
the story of Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus or a trilogy about
Niobe, or one of the first examples of civil disobedience,
Antigone and Creon. Or, if you like mysteries and/or Jane Austen, treat yourself to
The Highbury Murders: A Mystery Set in the Village of Jane Austen’s Emma very positively reviewed
at the Daily Kos Monday Murder Mystery blog.