Republicans in the 2012 election (well, ever since 2008 they’ve been using this language) are shouting from rooftop and into every available microphone phrases like, ight for the America We Love!”, “Rescue America!”, “Take America Back!” (and one of my favorites that good ‘ole Rince seems to use often), “Elect Mitt Romney to Save America!”
Save America? From what, exactly? Is this one of those various “cliffs” that Fox News always shouts about then later drops because their facts were wrong or, once in their words, “we just make it up” ?
America is in trouble gosh darnit, and the Republican Party exists… literally… I think the only reason the Republican Party exists right now… is to scare the daylights out of anyone who will listen to their shouting that America… THEIR America… is ending and falling off a cliff. Sky is falling, floods are coming, people “not like you” are taking over the world, so get your arms and freak out, America. SAVE AMERICA!
Why else would they pick a guy with a name like Reince Priebus to deliver the message? With a name like that, you can’t speak positive.
Save America from… what, though? Obama? Democrats? Immigrants? The kitchen sink, perhaps? Not having to file for bankruptcy if you get sick? Healthy kids? Better educated kids? I don’t know about you, but I think those are all good things from which we need no saving.
On one hand you have Mitt Romney’s friends who gather in the Hamptons and tell reporters that the “common people” just don’t understand how terrible it will be if they have to pay more taxes and buy one one dancing horse for the upcoming season. So SAVE AMERICA! from rich people having to pay more than 13.9% on their millions of dollars of income!
And we also have the birthers (still… my lord, how is that possible?) who are clinging onto the worst parts of American history and using a birth certificate as an excuse to express their racism. Save American from the dangerous black man who is president and clearly a hell of a lot smarter than any of us are. Smart people who do things like, you know, help people, are terrible!
They like to bash on Nancy Pelosi a lot, right? Yeah… what a scary person, she is. Oh, right… she’s from “San Francisco!!” Land of “the gays” in their eyes. Those people who tend to forget everything except something they can complain about and print on a religious bumper sticker. Your religion is over here, our government is over there. Get out of it and get over it. YOU are the ones forcing your believes on others, not the other way around by acknowledging civil rights. Did you learn from the Crusades? Oh wait, no… I forgot: Y’all keep blowing up clinics and shooting doctors and Sikh priests who are pillars of communities. Good going. Moral high ground you’re traveling.
Save us from what… Chick Fil A going out of business? Save them from being the most dominant religion in the country? What, exactly, are Republicans trying to save the country from? Freedom?
I know it’s easy to forget that while you’re shouting freedom out of one side of your mouth, you’re simultaneously screaming to restrict it for anyone else who is not like you, either via protests and signs or passing laws. But we all know pointing out hypocrisy is pointless in American politics. That requires people to think longer than 10 seconds and (unlike Mitt Romney) having a certain ability to feel shame when one lies, cheats, steals, or injures another person.
