Embracing Fantasy, Republican Style

AT LONG LAST, out comes the truth, as, they say, it always will. Its from Vladimir Putin, of all people. Putin now says that he indeed helped Trump get elected in 2016, by meddling online. He's prevaricating, you say? The CIA, FBI, and Mueller report confirmed this Russian meddling years ago, confirmed what Putin now confirms, Russian perfidy. Putin seems proud of it, amid right the usual wing denials of it. The Mueller report plainly stated that Trump accepted and welcomed Russian assistance, was fully aware of it, but did nothing about it, other than support it. Now Putin admits its all true, every word of it. More right wing denial, of course. Now Putin and his Russian oligarch thug friends say that they will be right back at it in twenty twenty four, constructing thousands of misinformation websites, spreading lies about Biden, the usual tactics, redux. Doubtless the Republican party will celebrate and glorify and deny it all, as they did back in 2016. Steve Bannon's approach to politics prevails among Republicans. Throw as much bullshit as possible as American society, and what sticks, sticks. Nixon's approach. The big lie, often repeated, becomes accepted as fact. The spirit of Joseph Goebbels permeates conservative America. Among their fatuous, false assertions of the past, in concert with Russian meddling: that Barack Obama was born in Africa. That Michells Obama is a man. Both these lies are, as Barack Obama succinctly put it: "ultimately racist". There is more. That Hillary Clinton operated some sort of pedophilic enterprise out of a Pizza parlor basement, a pizza parlor in D.C. which has no basement. And now, for the piece de resistance: that the typically deranged conservative who attacked Paul Pelosi was Paul Pelosi's gay lover. FOX "news" embraces all of it, every last reprehensible word. So does the American fascist right wing. Thus the Russians shamelessly declare their intention, to interfere with the twenty twenty four American presidential electin, as they did in 2016 to help elect Trump. They will use social media, again, and money. Thousands of bogus websites, denigrating Biden and Democrats, with lies just as they did to Hillary Clinton. They may once agian help Trump get elected, with the full approval of the Republican party and conservative America. This, the party which formally declared that the insurrection at the Capitol was "legitimate political discourse". The Republicans will once again redicule all those who once again prove that the GOP is a criminal, terrorist organization. They will try to discredit the CIA, FBI, as they did once before. They will preposterously claim that the FBI, CIA, and something called the "deep state" is chock full of liberal Democrats, out to get Trump. If Trump or his surrogate presidential candidate loses again in 2024, he and they will once again claim massive voter fraud, claim victory, and resort to and approve of violent insurrection, with the full support of white, conservative, evangelical Christian America. And once again we the American people will get exactly what we deserve by letting it all happen, because we deserve no better.