ELITISM

A theme I am hearing lately on the news pisses me off: comparing college educated voters to non-college educated voters in support of Donald Trump.   The newsroom pundits (who have all had the advantage of attending college) are inferring, without actually saying, that college graduates are smarter than non-college graduates, thus non-college graduates are more likely to support Trump.   

College attendance, for most people, has depended on income more than intelligence.   I spent twenty-two years in the military as an enlisted man, and many of the officers, who held their ranks solely because of a college degree, were some of the most stupid people I have ever known.  

When my wife and I attended college I was forty-one and my wife was in her late twenties.   I had more general knowledge and far more experience than many – if not most – of my college professors. 

I believe the voting breakdown is more a factor of demographics than education.  

The Republican hierarchy is always saying their party needs to be more inclusive.   Actually the Republican Party is extremely inclusive.  

It has been said – and I have repeated – that not all Republicans are racist, misogynist, gun nuts, white supremacist, militia morons, lobotomized fundamentalist Christian or Fox News troglodytes; but if you are a member of one of those groups there is a place for you in the inclusive Republican Party.    It just so happens that most people that fall into one of those group are poorly educated in general and likely on the lower slope of the IQ bell curve. 

So constantly breaking down voting statistics by college/ non-college demographics is a false equivalency, and disregards the millions of people who have never had the opportunity to attend college and are smart, experienced and informed people. 

You can prove or disprove anything you want with statistics – it is all a matter how you group the data.    

EUGENICS

Eugenics (NOUN): science dealing with improvement of hereditary qualities.

Just as the Republican party is responsible for the advent of Donald Trump on the Republican political stage; the Democratic party is responsible for the dumbing down of the Tea Party base of the of the Republican electorate.

It is well known that Republican men have this creepy fascination with what happens inside the vagina of young women – and especially with impregnation and zygote development; but they don’t give a Flanders damn about what happens outside the vagina - the birth of a child and its subsequent health and welfare. 

It is the Democratic Party that champions the health and welfare of children and adults.    Democrats have enacted laws that make food safe and available for those that can’t feed themselves, to improve medical facilities and medical procedures, to support drug development to fight disease, to have special education a requirement for schools, to protect coal miners and people working in hazardous industries, and to require safety belts and helmets and air bags for people on the move.   

The problem is that with all their well-meaning, Democrats have thwarted the natural selection of eugenics.   

 The human race survived up to this point because nature thinned out the stupid, reckless, sick and fucktards of the human race leaving those most adaptable to adjusting to change to carry on the gene pool.

 

When Ugg dropped his loin cloth and mooned a Tyrannosaurus Rex, nature made sure that his bloodline would end; 

but when Winston III drops his pants in the middle of the freeway to moon an oncoming Lexus full of his friends, the automatic collision avoidance and the anit-lock brakes engage to insure that young Winston will live to produce progeny with the same lack of common sense and survival response.

To correct this, we need to let the Republicans dismantle all safety and support regulations.

911 should have a policy that when someone calls that the bungee cord broke and young Jake is at the bottom of the canyon under the bridge the operator should switch to a recording that says, ‘your call is important to us but we must respond to calls of non-self-inflicted emergencies first, so enjoy this elevator music while I place you on hold.’

When Marcus reports to the emergency room with six gerbils stuck in his ass the hospital should charge him $500 and send him home with a coat hanger.

When Billy Bob accidentally shoots his kid the 911 operator should transfer his call to the NRA.

When Chuck drives his motorcycle off the road and hits a tree at 70 miles per hour.    His parents should have to pay to have his decapitated body taken to the morgue.

And let’s not forget the octomom who should be denied all welfare until she has eaten at least six of her children. 

This may sound drastic, but the world is overpopulated with stupid people, and the majority of them in this country make up the Republican base. 

If the American political system is ever going to regroup again and prevent America from devolving into a third world cluster fuck, then natural selection should be allowed to work as intended, eventually erasing the idiot base that vote in the Republican Party and allowing government to function efficiently.

It is simply Science.

the Ol’BUzzard

   

TRANSMOGRIFICATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

The traditional leaders of the Republican Party seem in denial that Donald Trump is destine to be their Presidential Candidate.  

A number of Republican leaders appeared on the Morning Joe show on MSNBC yesterday morning.  They were all marveling that their base seems to be willing to support a racist, radical loudmouth in deference to their chosen standard-bearer.

Theirs in not only denial but hypocrisy in refusing to realize that they have created this situation.   

They stated categorically that Trump should be condemned for his bombastic personal attacks and his refusal to distance himself from groups like the KKK, stating that these groups do not represent the Republican Party.

But for years the Republican Party has covertly courted wingnut groups that the mainstream dismissed; until now their base totally consist of  white southern racist, militant discontents, religious extremist and people on the lower side of the IQ curve.   

For decades the movers and shakers of the Party were able to manipulate these groups with lip service, and depend on their support when it was time to vote. They have fed   them scraps, but now marvel that these minions have taken over the dinner table.  

History bares these claims out:

The Republican Party became the party of southern racist beginning in 1948 when southern Democrats walked out of the Democratic Convention to protest the Party Plank of civil rights.  

These disenfranchised southern racist, over the following decade, matriculated to the Republican party.

The Republican hierarchy found they could keep a radical base in line by giving small concessions to religious bigotry, opposition to gun control, opposing civil liberties for minorities and supporting states’ rights.    In return the base would ignore the real object of the party which is to divert wealth to the rich and powerful.

(George Carlin said: “Show me the people who control the money, the land and the weapons and I’ll show you the people in charge.”) 

The dissolution of the Republican Party began in 2008 when the first black President was elected and the Koch brothers and other powerful groups decided to create the Tea Party.    By encouraging, enlisting and busing members of their less educated, racist and extremist base to venues publicly protesting the President,  and to to town hall meetings in order to disrupt Democratic Senators and Congresspersons vying for reelection, the Tea Party was given a spotlight and a platform to be seen and heard.

 

This seemed like a good idea at the time and was completely in line with other dirty tricks that Republicans have used to manipulate voters and election over the years. 

But, when racial hatred publicly reared its ugly face with the Tea Party, Republican leaders chose to look the other way.

What the Party leaders didn’t understand is they would not be able to put the genie back in the bottle when it had served their purpose.

The Republicans are inheriting the wind of a storm they created.  They can’t stop Trump now; but this could have been completely avoided had they vocally ridiculed Trump when he first came on the scene with his Birther claims.   Instead they fanned the flames by not addressing his absurdities; and now the feral base has found its savior and coup of the Republican Party is at hand.  

The inmates are in charge of the asylum and no one can predict where this will lead.

We are witnessing the transmogrification of the Republican Party.

At my age I have more important things to ponder over, but the outcome will be interesting.

the Ol'Buzzard

WE'LL GET US A LITTLE MAN

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PREACHES CHANGE

WE'LL GET US A LITTLE MAN

WE GET US A WOMAN

WE GET US A BLACK MAN

WE GET US A SMART MAN: HE WEARS GLASSES

The Ol'Buzzard

MOVEMENT CONSERVATISM EXPLAINED

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman published an article in the New York Times titled The Fix Isn’t In where he discussed movement conservatism.   Movement conservatism was a term I was not familiar with; but I have seen it in action and recognized it as the bait and switch that the Republican Party has played with their ignorant base and the one percent they actually support, since the time of Reagan. 

Below is an excerpt from his article and a link to the full writing.   It is a short piece and worth reading: food for thought.     

THE FIX ISN'T IN

"I don’t mean that conservatism in general is dying. But what I and others mean by “movement conservatism,” a term I think I learned from the historian Rick Perlstein, is something more specific: an interlocking set of institutions and alliances that won elections by stoking cultural and racial anxiety but used these victories mainly to push an elitist economic agenda, meanwhile providing a support network for political and ideological loyalists."

 This article seems to truly, in simple terms, explain the Republican Party of the last four decades.

the Ol’Buzzard