So Now We Know [View all]

[NanceGreggs]

Over the years, we have watched the Republicans in action.

We have watched them obstruct programs that benefit the people whose interests they were elected to represent.

We have heard them rail about a smaller, less intrusive government when it comes to regulations that protect the citizenry, while touting the need for government interference when it comes to a woman's right to choose, or a same-sex couple's right to marry.

We have heard their endless rhetoric about the careless spending of Democrats, while they promote ever-increasing tax-breaks for wealthy corporations and individuals.

We have witnessed their disdain for the environment, the dismantling of laws that keep our water clean and potable, our food supply safe, and our communities free of toxic elements that endanger our health and well-being.

We have listened to their hypocritical statements about family values and protecting the unborn – usually delivered by men married to a third or fourth wife, who consistently demonstrate their utter disdain for the plight of children already born.

We have watched as they have wasted millions of taxpayer dollars trying to overturn programs like Obamacare, while decrying every penny spent on programs that feed the hungry or house the homeless.

We have watched as they clamour for war; we have also watched as they turn their backs on the veterans who return injured and broken from the battles they were sent to fight.

Over the years, many of us have wondered just how low the GOP is willing to go. We have waited in anticipation for the depths of their depravity to be reached, for the bottom of the barrel to be so thoroughly scraped there is no longer any chance of them going any lower than they’ve already sunk.

But with the “election” of Donald Trump, we now have our answer.

When you elect an incompetent, mentally unbalanced madman to the presidency, there IS no bottom to the barrel – its depths are infinite. When you place the reins of power in the hands of a Putin puppet, there IS no floor, no point at which you are willing to put country above party. When you put the nuclear codes into the hands of a self-absorbed idiot, there is NO end to how low you are willing to sink.

Any hope that there are reasonable people within the GOP that are willing to put the brakes on our nation’s speedy descent into catastrophe are now dashed. Any thoughts that “cooler heads” within the Republican party would prevail over madness are now gone. Any benefit of the doubt we have given to Republicans, any excuses we have made for their actions, any second-guessing we have done in order to attribute some reasonableness to their agenda are now proven to be without basis or merit.

There is an enemy in our midst. There is no limit to how low they will go to destroy the country they swore to serve and protect. There are no boundaries of decency they are willing to acknowledge; there are no lines they are unwilling to cross.

And any lingering doubts as to who that enemy is have now been forever erased.