When, in 1860, an election took power out of the hands of the slaveholders of the South, they chose secession and war. When the election of 2008 took power out of the hands of today's Republican party, they chose unending obstructionism rather than the normal role of an opposition party
At one level, this obstructionism has represented an all-out war against their political opponents--specifically, President Obama and the Democratic Party. But at another level, with their ritual repealing of Obamacare -- more than fifty times -- the Republicans have also enacted what might be called a war against reality.
So now -- like the Bush regime in its hubris in thinking it could compel reality to conform to its will; and like the Republicans in Congress who rejected not only the apportionment of power determined by the people through our democratic system, but also the limits to their power that reality imposed -- the Republican base is now enacting its own form of a power-lust so intense that it will bow to nothing, not even to inescapable reality.
Thus rather than accept the reality that their power is limited, they reject political leaders like John Boehner who -- for all their gestures and playacting to appease their maddened base -- understand that they lack the means to impose their will upon the nation.
(And, in that same lust for vicarious power, these Republicans in the base are turning to the snake-oil salesman Donald Trump selling fantasies of enjoying so many "victories" we'll get bored with winning.)
Reality is not always wonderful. But whether reality is good or bad at any given time, reality is the only thing we've got.
Those who feel compelled to reject reality -- in order to maintain falsehoods they desperately need -- are a menace to themselves and to everything they touch.
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