Agenda Setting Lunacy

WHEN I REALIZED that a major plank in the Republican House majority Caucus is the defunding of the Internal Revenue Service, a perfectly reasonable question came to mind: how, then, in the hell do they propose to fund the country? With tariff import duties? A supersized national lottery? Philothropic contributions? Let's be clear: in the far futuristic year of two thousand and twenty three, a national income tax, and a governmental agency well enough funded and staffed to collect and organize it, is absolutely, flat out essential for national economic survival. And yet, stifling the IRS by defunding it indeed seems to be a prominent part of the agenda of the far political right. And crazy though it is, it is by far not the only crazy component to American conservatism's game plan. Recall that several months ago when the Biden administration shepherded through Congress a bill which restored full funding to the agency following years of Republican budget cuts, Republicans described the spending as "wasteful". Decapitating the primary source of income for the federal government is more than merely unwise, it is reckless extremism, like the rest of the right wing agenda. Perhaps the most extreme, reckless part of their agenda is in the area of education, consisting of what America's far right believe should and should not be taught, or mentioned, in public schools. The essence of this is that conservative America wants to prohibit all public schools from acknowledging that racism is not only a fundamental American value since the nation's inception, but that it remains a factor in today's American society. In other words, ignore racism, ignore our modern racist culture, pretend that it does not exist. Same with the LGBTQ community. Simply prohibit any mention of LGBTQ people in pubic schools, and presto, change-o, they are gone, out of sight, out of mind! Somehow, the underllying pshychology in this is remindful of conservative reaction to Trump's election defeat in twenty twenty. Living in a make believe world, is the right wing. By the time we've reached a cert, bvious, easily detected lie in American history, but probably in recorded human history as well. The fact that tens of millions of consrvative christian Republicans shose and still choose to delude themselves into believing it is, to say the least, shocking. But you can see the mentality behind it. Its the same mentality which impels right wingers to pass laws making it ilegal to teach schol children about racism or to acknowledge to existence of gay people or climate change; a mentality of sick, twisted, delusional thinking.