REPUBLICANS WERE THE PARTY OF TRUMP BEFORE TRUMP

I find it hard to post.   The Trump presidency is such a daily cluster-fuck that my poor slow cooker recipes, DYI hints, apocalyptic climate predictions and general Maine lore shade unimportant by comparison to what is happening to our democracy.    So lately I have avoided the computer. 

People seem shocked by the reaction of the Republican Party to the blatant racism, misogamy and maleficence of office of the Presidency that is the part and parcel of the Trump White House.

In 1948 southern racist Democrats began fleeing the Democratic Party when desegregation became part of the Democratic platform.   Within a few years these southern racist democrats became a major faction in Republican Party.   The Republican party also opened their arms to the southern fundamentalist Christians.   Over the years the Republican hierarchy willingly accepted any fringe group that they felt they could manipulate to vote Republican; placating them by giving lip service to social policies that would cement that base, while enacting actual policies that served the rich and powerful. 

As a result, the base of the republican became dumbed down and easily manipulated.  

Then the Republican party made the mistake of encouraging and energizing the Tea Party; and low intelligent, uninformed masses dawned tri-corner hats, waved Don’t Tread on Me flags and, to the surprise of the Party elites, systematically took over the asylum. 

If you are a KKK member - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; if you are a white supremacist - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; If you are a fundamentalist Christian that denies evolution and believes the earth is six thousand years old - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; if you are a moronic science denier - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; if you are a militia nutcase advocation the overthrow of the federal government - there is a place for you in the Republican Party, If you are an ammosexual wearing you assault rifle into McDonald’s - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; if you feel that women aren’t capable of making decisions about their own bodies - there is a place for you in the Republican Party; and if you are a homophobe…..

This is the Republican Party that finally found their savior in Donald Trump. 

This is not the Party of Donald Trump, but the Republican party with a leader that at last reflects the values of the party he leads. 

the Ol'Buzzard

BUZZARD IN A FUNK

I haven’t been on the computer for a few days.   I guess you would say I am in kind-of-a-funk.   It just seems that every time I think about writing a post I ask myself: what is the use.  

It feels like I have gone to sleep and found myself in a crazy psychedelic dream were the country is being run by Krusty the Clown, with Moe, Larry and Curly as his brain trust.

I was afraid it would get to this point where I would become so saturated with outlandishly bizarre Trump news that I would no longer care to stay informed.  

There are so many serious issues to deal with, from climate change to poverty to health care; and at present, the one that should scare the hell out of us is North Korea’s Kim Jong-um with nuclear weapons developing an ICBM that can reach the United States, and Donald Trump with the code to our nuclear arsenal.    

You don’t have to look very close to see that these two people are extremely similar. 

I feel like that crazy man standing on a soap box on the street corner shouting and waving his sign that The End is Near.

I am almost thankful that we have a nor-easter coming into Maine Tuesday into Wednesday with snow accumulations predicted between twelve and twenty inches.  

This should ground me back to reality.

the Ol'Buzzard