Longtime lurker here. First post and created my account just to say what I’ve got to say. Feedback is welcome, and though I’m not sure how many here will here agree, I suspect I’m not alone in feeling the way I do.
Let’s start with the obvious: President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, in which he made an admirable call for unity, to bridge the political divide, to foster some sort of bonhomie between victor and vanquished.
Think about that for a second. Just really think about it.
Unity.
With Republicans.
There are so many reasons why we shouldn’t do just that. So many reasons, but since I can’t spend the next decade listing every single one of them, let me use just one as an example.
According to most polls, Donald Trump enjoyed a ninety-five percent average approval rating among Republicans. Ninety-five percent. The Republican party itself consist of approximately 35,041,482 members, not counting swing voters and Republican-affiliated voters who haven’t actually registered with the party. Ninety-five percent of that number would be 33,289,408 people.
33,289,408 people. Think about that for just a second. That is about one tenth of America’s entire population. Now, with that in mind, consider this:
Donald Trump is a traitor who has committed treason.
At least one in ten Americans supported him and voted for him in November.
By law, supporting or otherwise aiding and abetting a traitor who has committed treason is in itself treason.
The punishment for treason is death, or failing that, a lengthy prison term.
Therefore, roughly one in ten Americans, or ninety-five percent of all Republicans, legally qualify for the death penalty or federal prison.
And we’re supposed to have unity with these people?
No.
No, I don’t want unity. Unity is the last thing I want. It’s the last thing any of us should want.
I want retribution. I want revenge, do you hear me? I want Republicans to lose everything. I want them hounded out of every single facet of public and private life. I want their names and addresses and places of employment posted on the Internet for all to see. I want them to lose their jobs, their homes, their bank accounts, and their property. I want CPS to take their children away. I want their families torn apart the way they’ve done to migrant families on the border. I want them to suffer, long and terribly, as they have made us suffer, as they have made the world suffer. I want them behind bars, every single one of them. I want them reduced to a state of such wretchedness that it will be lifetimes before they even think of running for office again.
Republicans are traitors. Whether they’re your neighbors, your classmates, your coworkers, they are all traitors, every single one of them.
It’s time we start treating them accordingly.
I don’t want unity. I want treason trials. I want the Republican party outlawed in its entirety. I want every single one of them hunted down like the dogs they are and put behind bars.
Now is not the time for unity. Now is the time for vengeance, merciless and without compromise or exception.
Vengeance for Merrick Garland.
Vengeance for Christine Blasey-Ford.
Vengeance for Hillary Clinton.
Vengeance for the DREAMERs.
Vengeance.