It's not a metaphor. It's not an exaggeration.

[ritaxis]

The Republican Party has a plan. The plan is to destroy everything. Look at these things (not in any order):

-- destroy the ability of working people to act in their own behalf
(abolish collective bargaining rights)

--destroy education
(abolish public schools)
(oppose national funding for school construction)

-- destroy modern medicine
(defund CDC's center for injury prevention and control)
(defund health care reform, but it goes farther than this)
(prevent vaccinations)
(disallow life-saving medical procedures for women)



-- destroy protections for children
("modify" -- that is, repeal -- child labor laws)
(oppose school breakfast programs in the name of economy)

-- destroy the environment

(really, so petty: end the capitol's own compostable dishware program)
(stop protecting wild lands from exploitation)
(redfine rape so it means nothing) (they backed down on this. Voluble outrage can make a difference!)

I can't do this anymore. But you get the picture.

It's not just that the Republicans don't have out best interests at heart. What they have at heart is actual harm and ultimate destruction for everybody and everything.

They want us to be poor, uneducated, ill, without rights or prospects. The war on women is part of a larger war on everybody.

I have my ideas about the ultimate motivation for this, but I am not certain of it. Perhaps it is the mindless instinct of a foul, dying beast, determined to take everything and everyone down with it.

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I used to think that statements like yours were, well, a little over the top, because haven't we evolved into a civilised society and all that? In the face of the current political climate, I wish to apologize for my former scepticism. Most of these things would be utterly unbelievable if they weren't happening right now.

Oh, and the problem with the rich is that they take wealth out of circulation. Their wealth is meaningless - they don't spend the money, it doesn't flow into the economy, so the rest get poorer while they sit on their numbers and congratulate themselves how well they're doing.

If a major earthquake flattens California, I wonder whether they'll realise that roads and bridges don't build themselves...

[trinker.livejournal.com]

...there's a reason why California trends blue, and why it's the portions of the state that haven't been flattened by earthquakes that trend redder.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

They have fallen in love with death and destruction. It is enough to make one believe in demons.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on the rest, but the compostability wasn't working. When your spoon melts when you put it in your soup, your carry-out box leaks, and your fork breaks when it touches chicken (this is all substantiated by independent workers), it's time to get something else. The minute I read that in The Post, I thought that everybody should have a little metal kit that they can use (and wash up), but I doubt all those millionaires (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030902631.html) would use those, even in front of cameras.

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