Bring on the Insanity
Anyone
who’s been following politics for the last few years had to see this
coming. Since the tea party burst onto the scene, the wingnut
radicals of the repugican cabal have been frothing at the mouth to take over the repugican cabal.
The tea party was originally embraced as a PR stunt to try to
“rebrand” the repugican cabal following eight years of a disastrous shrub junta.
It was also the racist response to America’s first black president.
Sure, most repugicans will never admit either of these things, but make
no mistake, those two issues were the driving forces behind why the tea
party was pushed so heavily by wingnuts.
But now that they’ve unleashed the monster, they don’t know what to
do with it. And the fact is, I don’t know if there’s anything they can
do. The tea party has incredible funding. Not only does it have the
funding, but tea party repugicans are often the die-hard voters that
turn out in large numbers during primary season.
Meaning that many of the repugican candidates for president or
congressional seats will have to appeal to these wingnut radicals the
tea party has energized.
And there’s the problem for repugicans. See, tea party policies are
extremely popular with the far-right base that often determines which
candidate will represent the repugican cabal in the general election. However,
these radical candidates don’t often appeal to the majority of
Americans.
The recent shutdown is a prime example of this. While many repugicans actually supported the shutdown, the vast majority of
Americans not only rejected it—they blamed repugicans for it.
Even before the shutdown began you had repugicans calling the whole
idea of shutting down our government foolish. And even in the face of
indisputable reality that the shutdown wouldn’t be successful in
defunding “Obamacare,” tea party repugicans continued to insist that
they wouldn’t support reopening the government unless it included
gutting “Obamacare.”
See, when it comes to tea party repugicans, they really don’t care
about reality. These people live in a world where what they want to be
real is more important than what’s actually real. Who cares if the
Affordable Care Act was deemed Constitutional?
They don’t feel that it is—therefore it’s unconstitutional.
Who cares if President Obama was overwhelmingly reelected by the majority of Americans?
They don’t
like him. Therefore any and all actions to oppose him are acceptable.
I really believe that these people would rather see our nation collapse
into the abyss if it meant defeating President Obama on something—
anything.
See, according to the tea party, President Obama is “destroying the
United States!” So, I guess it’s okay for them to do it—-to stop him
from doing it? Because that makes perfect sense.
Even many repugicans can’t reason with these people. Many
long-tenured repugicans are having to pander to the tea party out of
fear of facing a primary challenger and losing their seat in Congress.
That’s why people like Ted Cruz are so dangerous for the repugican cabal — because repugicans
love him.
The repugican cabal is at risk of being torn apart by its own ignorance. The tea
party-backed politicians like Ted Cruz or Rand Paul can spout off
whatever nonsense they want, all of which is completely fictional, and
as long as it sounds like something tea party voters want to hear—it’s
going to gain them support.
It doesn’t even matter if what they’re saying or doing is disastrous
nationally for the party as a whole — they don’t care because it’s good
for
them.
Because no politician is safer in their position right now than a tea
party-backed wingnut in a “strongly repugican” part of the United
States.
Which is great for them, but disastrous for repugicans in more
moderate districts and states which face voters that aren’t wingnut
radicals. Someone like Ted Cruz can pretty much say whatever asinine
statement he wants because his Senate seat is safe. He doesn’t care
that his statements, when published nationally, make the repugican cabal look terrible. His behavior and actions boost his standing with
the tea party, but they make his entire party look like a group of out
of touch radicals determined to divide and destroy our country. And
he’s perfectly fine with that.
So while repugicans like John McCain or Jeb Bush make comments
alluding to the need for the repugican cabal to “calm down” or “move on” (both
comments obviously directed at people like Ted Cruz), it doesn’t matter
to the tea party fringe. Their seats are safe. It just emboldens them
to act even crazier and get even more accolades from the majority of
delusional voters in their districts and states.
And right now, you’re seeing the first real shots being fired within
the repugican cabal. The tea party repugicans built on unwavering support from their
radical base vs. more moderate repugicans that see the bigger picture
nationally for their cabal.
Because while I never agree with repugicans like McConnell, McCain
or Boehner—they know these tea party antics are a threat to their party.
Our government can’t function with an “all or nothing” approach to
governing, forced on us by people who live in a wingnut land of
make believe.
But that’s how the tea party operates. They see “negotiation” as
them saying, “This is what we want—or else.” In short, they don’t
negotiate—they use blackmail, extortion and hostage-taking tactics to
try to force the opposition to do what they want.
Doubt me? Just look at what they do to members of their own party.
There’s already talk of tea party operatives working to find tea
party-backed challengers to defeat current repugican cabal members of Congress who
voted to reopen the government. Those wingnuts didn’t give in to
their demands, so they’re threatening to find “real wingnuts” who
will.
And this is only going to get worse for the repugican cabal. Unless moderate repugicans in the cabal find some kind of large system of financial
support to combat tea party radicals, their cabal is doomed.
Because make no mistake, the civil war within the repugican cabal has already
started. It’s going to be messy, it’s going to be ugly and it’s going
to shake the entire cabal to its very core.
And at the end of the day, the whole ordeal will simply reek of
irony. The tea party, a mechanism meant to lift their party to new
prominence after eight years of failed shrub policies, becoming the very
thing that destroys the cabal from within.
While I’m not 100% certain how it’s all going to go down, I do know
one thing for sure — it’s only going to intensify drastically heading
into next year’s midterm elections.
