Isn't it true that Republican politicians are the zombie pawns of alien right wing zillionaires, manipulating those politicians into (a) getting elected by masterful manipulation of the basest prejudices of the parts of the population most vulnerable to manipulation, and (b) either (i) passing legislation most harmful to the non-zillionaires, or (ii) obstructing anything good from happening, with the goal of destroying our ability to govern ourselves? I can't decide whether this is Invasion of the Body Snatchers or the Manchurian Candidate; but the level of Zombie, rote, meaningless (other than "dog whistle") rhetoric issuing from the mouths of pretty much every Republican on television is so stultifying, I suppose, now that I think about it, that I haven't seen anything so deadening since Stalinist propaganda.