Favorite: How to make democrats suffer for shutdown

The anti-Obamacare, slap-happy fundraising hits keep intensifying. This day, as President Obama gave a rather spirited speech about the ACA (it’s about time), someone who occupies the other side of the political aisle searched online for “how to make democrats suffer for shutdown“. This further begs the question: Will democrats share the blame of a government shut down? (because quite it’s clear that republicans in the House will no matter what).

This particular phrase was picked as a POLITUSIC favorite because of one word: suffer. Suffer, acutely reflects the new motivation of the extreme right wing as it has entrenched itself into its own version of the Alamo, and somewhat nimbly answers the question at hand. Granted, it’s not as though the average person occupying the Tea Party base wants to cause pain… but the words we choose are important. They’re telling. they show a state of mind, and level of support vs. disdain on all issues from unloading the dishwasher to fighting Republicans in the House. The far right is increasingly using words like “suffer” in its every day vernacular… and that’s important for all U.S. citizens to acknowledge. The stronger the word choice, the more entrenched people generally become.

The only shared motivation among the various far right factions is: make anyone not like them suffer, simply because “those other people” believe something different and therefore threaten the “truth” of right wing, fundamentalist beliefs. Tea Party-ism isn’t a political ideology – it’s a religion – that therefore allows anyone on the Tea Party Express to, literally, damn those who do not believe Tea party ideologies. It’s a mob mentality fire blanket wrapped around an ultra-conservative purification drive. Non-believers should be made to suffer…

It’s really quite something.

The general brain-set is that if someone believes something different than they do, then that “Other” person is not only wrong, but such a person is likely plotting to destroy the county (this the Tea Party is very, very keen on the Destroy America narrative – they almost beg for it like the Rapture… for no other reason than to prove that their faith was the correct one. It also is very good at getting millions of dollars in donations and book sales.).

Democrats won’t get blamed for a government shutdown because right wing media is too isolated.

While a recent poll (CNN/ORC) shows 46% of the country would  blame republicans in Congress for a government shutdown, 36% would blame the President, and 13% would blame both. (36% = the Republican Party base, who blame Obama no matter what the issue.) The republican media bubble will, of course, blame democrats and the President – that’s what they do… it’s the business of Republicanism – but that doesn’t’ mean that the entire country will do so, because the majority of Americans don’t live their lives according to Rush Revere.

Someone in America wants to know how to make democrats suffer for a government shutdown. Trends indicate that republicans in Congress (which most of the country see as Tea Party crazies, even though that only represents a small faction of all republicans in Congress) will get the majority of the blame. The best outcome that the ranting, hate-filled republican base can hope is that a majority of Americans will blame Congress as a whole, coupled with the President for not “being a strong leader”. It’s important to note, however, that shared blame doesn’t mean shared suffering. “Who will suffer from a government shutdown” is a matter of congressional election results in the 2014 election, which, if the DNC plays its cards right, will result in republicans in Congress losing seats because the country finally gets fed up with Tea Party absolutism.

Yes, many progressives will blame the President for not being strong enough (i.e. fighting and being more vocal), and there’s no doubt that the GOP base will blame Obama, but on a whole, the best the Tea Party will get is some Ted Cruz talk show appearances where he’ll tell you all what you want to hear, while the rest of the country takes one step closer to being fed up with the entire process.

On a national scale, no matter how much money the Koch brothers spend, or right wing media shout into their microphones, it will be near impossible to make democrats… suffer… for any sort of government shut down. Primarily, because the extreme right wing seems to forget that they exist inside their own republican media bubble. This media bubble is what created the Tea Party in the first place! That isolation means all the ranting and finger pointing rarely escapes the oxygen void of Republicanland. Half of America doesn’t watch news at all, and the rest don’t watch Fox, listen to Glenn Beck, or suffer through an hour of Rush Revere. Only the President has the ability to reach the majority necessary to make democrats “suffer” in any way for the Tea Party holding the US government hostage based on their ignorance and hate.

Congress in general will get most of the blame, Ted Cruz will get pushed out of the GOP establishment (but make a TON of money for a presidential flare out), and Obama will take the same old hate and hear from the far right and far left that he has during his entire presidency.

Suffer… it’s such a telling word as to why the US government, and let’s face it, the North and South, Coasts and Mid-West, Cities and Country are as polarized as they are. Politics has become a mob game of making the other side… suffer. Not govern, not even win or lose an argument… suffer. This is the mindset of the average Tea Party republican, any why we need to get them the hell out of federal, state, and local governments as fast as electorally possible.