Under constant stress of financial uncertainty I have to take a temporary hiatus. I have depleted my resources to the point where scanning the internet with impunity is an unaffordable luxury. Since I have been trying to get disability payments for a seizure condition and have been trying for several years already, the prospect of Social Security suddenly gaining a conscience and providing me with a means of supporting myself is no longer on my hope list. I just have to assume they will continue stringing me along until I finally expire from medical neglect, starvation, exposure, or yet another spectacular bashing incident. But before I go I want to leave you with an idea in hopes we can stem the rising tide of corrosive Conservatism:
Not only am I enduring prolonged poverty and chronic homelessness, the America as I was raised to know it has become frighteningly partisan. Especially on the part of wingnuts bent on unmitigated selfishness and appalling stupidity. Stupidity to the point of using April 19 as a day of outrage all the well knowing it is a day of notoriety for the most racist and unbalanced of the Right Wingers. I don't want to even open my email server never-less fish for news on that day. I'm just too appalled by the extremes inability to be appalled by their own insanity.
The use of language as a means of political control is well recognized by many cultures. For example global warming is embraced by the corporatists because as we all know here throughout the year the temperatures in many communities vary. For example it snowed heavily on the East Coast last winter thus in their minds global warming doesn't exist, "see it's snowing how could we be changing the climate." The term gay bashing refers to the use of baseball bats and other similar tools to attack those that are perceived to be sexually variant. Now those that find such treatment of LGBT's acceptable have claimed the term for themselves and anyone that dares complain about the right wing attack on civil rights is "bashing" their personal ideology. The Right Wingers are quite good at this Orwellian newspeak. I think to an extent we as Liberals should take some proactive steps and do some language appropriation ourselves.
In that vein I would suggest the following way of brining a new meaning to the word Republican and we don't even have to go to far into the realm of fiction to do so. So I bring you a new way to look at Republicans and how many ways we can use this word:
If want to call someone greedy: call them a Republican
If someone is being selfish: call them a Republican
If someone is being a hypocrite call: them a Republican
If someone thinks their rights are more important than your own: call them a Republican
If someone thinks being violent is the most efficient way of problem solving: call them a Republican
If someone thinks human beings are chattel: call them a Republican
If someone thinks shouting and disrupting political discourse is the right way of engaging in Democracy: call them a Republican
If someone cuts you off in traffic: call them a Republican
If someone drives drunk or erratically: call them a Republican
If someone thinks paying the addicted gamblers on Wall Street large bonuses is good policy: call them a Republican
If someone thinks skin color should determine civil rights: call them a Republican
If you can think of more ways of changing our language to properly reflect Republican ideals feel free to add them in your comments.
I fully expect this diary to race to the bottom of the diary list and into internet obscurity with the same aplomb as many of my previous works so if you have made it to this point you are truly elite.
Just to let you know my internet will expire sometime around noon Wednesday. I will try to do the coffee house route later in the day but that too will be significantly less than what I'm used to doing online. I fully expected this diary to be gone from the page by this point 11:15 pm Pacific.