Many insightful articles have been written since corporate fascism took another giant step toward locking up control of all sectors of this once-great country on Nov. 4. How were the bumbling, craven Democrats able to lose so soundly to a party of lunatics, anti-intellectual thugs, GuNazis, racists, misogynists and other shills for the corporate welfare/wealthy entitlement state that has ravaged the middle class and the poor since the Reagan Devolution launched the Right's scorched-Earth assault on America?
The majority of Democratic politicians and talking heads easily equate to the purposely feckless "referees" who participate in one of the staples of right-wing "culture" that Pat Buchanan and Michael Sewage gas on about, professional wrestling. Routinely thrown aside when the most ruthless combatant (read: Republican) literally brings out a baseball bat or chainsaw to finish off his sacrificial opponent (the American people), the referee (Democrat) feigns outrage at the lawless brutality of the villain in the ring and wags his finger vigorously in his face, only to be brusquely tossed into the first row of howling fans by the Randian brute in the black leotard.
In turn, the mob tosses the hapless representative of rules and regulations (government) back into the ring, where he helplessly witnesses the cartoonish beating of the spectacle's loser with scant protest, stunned that his striped shirt was not enough to stop the nation's largest organization of sociopaths (right-wingers) from picking the carcass of the American people as clean as a whited sepulcher.
What is the essence of this deadly political combat, masked by the corporate media in numbing crassness similar to the fraudulent choreography of professional wrestling (a contest of course overwhelmingly dominated by the Right, ever since Reagan convinced a majority of Americans that corporations and the wealthy should be freed from operating within the law and earning an honest living)? Nothing less than a grave struggle between good and evil, most easily recognized in stark religious terms that the most miserable, self-loathing Red Stater who vociferously votes straight Republican can understand.
How should one describe a party that proudly marches with the NRA and the gun industry to arm criminals, wife-beaters, the insane, children and would-be terrorists, resulting in the murders of 10,000 Americans by gun-owners annually? That runs interference before for-profit health insurance parasites who left 50,000,000 Americans uninsured for years, with 40,000 dying every year, while fleecing Americans with garbage policies that cost twice as much as the best health insurance policies worldwide? That regularly calls for war against poor people in foreign countries (let alone at home) in the name of gargantuan profits for the arms industry and for-profit mercenaries? That imposes an economic system that crushes small and middle-size businesses and the self-employed while demanding taxpayer welfare for corporations that loot Americans of their jobs and wealth? That blatantly lies for the Neanderthal fuel industry that cares nothing about literally killing the planet?
I do not believe in a supreme being, yet the political battle in America is nothing less than a war of good vs. evil, whether you are "too subtle" to believe in such Manichaen dualities or "too intelligent" to ever entertain theological imagery. The right-wing has been, as the Italian fascists (and, yes, the German Nazis) showed us so brutally, so clearly (and so near in our past), the collective agent of Satan, the fallen servant of God who was banished to Hell because Satan took too much relish in torturing mankind's representative, Job. The Right ratchets up its torture of the American people year by year, and Democrats are terrified even of speaking the truth about the evil the Right embodies, for fear of...what, in God's name?
It is true that the worst are full of passionate intensity--how on Earth are we to survive, let alone construct a nation we can once again be proud of, if the best lack all conviction, when revealed truth is so unequivocal?