Have You Ever Noticed How Republicans Seem to Screw Everything Up?

And then Americans blame the Democrats when they get to fixing things again

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I love listening to Republicans today speak about how they are shocked at what has happened to their Party. They can’t believe how extremist and even looney it has gotten. What I find annoying about these comments is that they are made by people who, until just recently, supported Trump, MAGA, McConnell, Lindsey Graham, the takeover of SCOTUS by the religious right, etc. 

Now, they look around at the criminal neglect of elected Republican representatives and act as if they had nothing to do with it. “Yesterday, everything was so normal. How did things get so bad so fast?” To be a Republican in America, the firing and twitching in the brains that permit people to understand things like opportunity cost and the consequences of one’s actions must be dimmed— they don’t fire and twitch, thus creating a void in comprehension. 

These people just don’t understand that if you do A, then B, C, or D could happen. Republicans do “A” and accept that “A” will continue to be the result forever. Take the tax cuts that are endlessly given to the super-rich. Since 1980, when Ronald Reagan declared war on the middle and working classes, economic inequality has exploded in our nation. We are the most unequal today than we have been at any time since just before The Great Depression. During this period, we have seen the nation’s infrastructure in many parts of the country crumble because local governments can barely keep the street lights on.

Who supports this endless tax cutting? Of course, Republicans. Who then complains when local communities suffer from increased traffic thanks to poor roads? Who complains about the increased crime due to more families living in poverty with no government assistance for getting a hand up and out — because Republicans endlessly gut such programs and defund them? Yes, Republican voters. Who do Republican voters blame for these problems? Democrats. They are told that the problems are caused by Democrat support of transgender people. They are told that the problems are caused by Democrats’ desire to tax and spend endlessly — they are told that the way to fix all of the issues is to again do “A.” 

Wait, though, didn’t we try A, and didn’t it lead us to this outcome the first time? We did, but the Democrats messed it up because they are too easy on minorities, too supportive of perverts, and too friendly to immigrants. 

Indeed. So Republican voters again elect clearly unqualified people whose inability to understand consequences and the simple equation of opportunity cost is on par with their own. We just need to do A, and all will be okay. 

A is done again, and because the country hadn’t yet fully recovered from the first time A was tried, the weak spots in our country grow even weaker. Another generation of Americans grows up in poverty. The Republican’s inability to understand the simple math that when there are more guns, there will be more gun violence results in more tragedy and heartbreak as families and communities suffer the consequences of Republican pro-gun policies.

By now, you see where I am going with this. Republicans don’t want to invest in renewable energy, and so they become slaves to the Dirty Energy Lobby. Climate change worsens yearly, and the storms and droughts become devastating. Republicans, though, accept all of this because, thanks to that lack of firing and twitching, they just can’t see how burning fossil fuel could cause such things — “It’s God making the weather, you know.”

The Republicans in Congress refuse to support Ukraine. If we fail to support Ukraine, then Russia will eventually be victorious. Russia is a cancer in the body of the world. A victorious Russia will lead to very dangerous consequences that will likely result in the United States and Russia going to war one day. 

It was the Republicans that led our nation into 9/11. Bush and company were too arrogant to accept that Al Qaeda was the nation’s most pressing security threat and so effectively ignored all of that intelligence. As I often explain to a libertarian friend, in a country as big and important as the United States, doing nothing is often worse than doing the wrong thing. Bush and his people did nothing, and Al Qaeda was able to move into place and seize airplanes. What happened next was a two-decade war against the Muslim world, resulting in hundreds of thousands of victims and trillions of our national wealth redistributed — much of it Americans selling arms. 

Today, our nation’s police departments are militarized in ways that only Sci-Fi writers dared imagine 40 years ago. Small towns are flush with war surpluses, which plays to all of the conspiracies and lunacy that always seem to take root in the minds of Republican voters. 

A Democrat, Joe Biden, pulled the country once and for all out of Afghanistan, and God Bless him for that! How did Republicans react? They blamed him for embarrassing America and said it made us weak — what embarrassed us and made us weaker was 9/11. An American citizen enters the Saudi consulate in Turkey and is murdered and then cut up. Republicans are somehow okay with that.

Do you see where I am going with this? 

There is nothing good or productive that Republicans have done for our nation since Nixon — and he actually did some good things! Republicans and their voters are mentally stunted because they fail to understand those two simple concepts mentioned above: the consequences of our actions (or inaction) and opportunity cost. 

Dear not-so-bright Republicans, if you do A, then the consequences will always result in B, C, or D — and maybe even M. Who knows, that’s why it’s essential to think and not just react.

Republicans in Congress today will vote not to support Ukraine — and yet another massive and avoidable problem will plague our future and fall to the Democrats to fix — if we survive the consequences of this latest chapter in stupid.