Hurricane LIAR

 RNC: Hurricane LIAR -- Why? How?

So the RNC has finally ended. But the question remains . . . who actually had the stomach to watch it, aside from Stephen and Trevor, and John, and Samantha? But they get paid to watch drivel like that, you know, important drivel (to be fair, even Stephen admitted he could not watch the final day of the RNC).  A recent Guardian article characterized the RNC as Hurricane LIAR, such is their view of the sheer volume of lies by the Trumpies about both Trump and Biden.  The cast of characters speaking seemed no longer bothered worrying about the difference between truths and lies. They have deteriorated into a parade of Liars, thus Hurricane LIAR.

And yet, people watched, and people applauded. How in heaven’s name is that possible?

I can sort of understand how the folks making money out of all this drivel participate. I mean, Trump’s kids are making millions. Pompeio, Barr, his ever-changing cast of the White House Press spokespeople, the Eric Prince family (also making millions) are raking it in.  Pence . . . well I don’t know. Pence was a nobody lawyer until he decided that politics was to his liking. He also got himself a radio commentator slot in Indiana, so maybe that was what attracted Trump. But, no, it was more likely that Pence’s conversion from a democrat-leaning Catholic to a born-again Evangel was the attractant. Pence might help to bring in the amoral Evangel vote, which Trump might otherwise have difficulty attracting, with his personal record of total sleaze. Pence in particular had played around with the anti-abortion crowd with a campaign and an Indiana law that prevented certain kinds of abortions. His Wiki page indicates that Pence signed bills intended to restrict abortions, including one that prohibited abortions if the reason for the procedure was the fetus's race, gender, or disability. After Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), he encountered fierce resistance from moderate members of his party, the business community, and LGBT advocates. The backlash against the RFRA led Pence to amend the bill to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and other criteria. So, little Pencey was a pretty sure gatherer of Evangel votes, since they only seem to care about opposing both abortion and gay rights.

But what about the people who are not Evangel?

Well, we have the KKK/Racist vote. These are people who, whether they belong to the KKK or not, are fundamentally racist. They obviously love Trump, who is also an openly racist kind of guy.  They’re never going to vote for any democrat, since the Republican Party in general has shifted to fairly open support of racism. Interesting how that Party of Lincoln idea didn’t survive.

And then we have the Neo-Nazi’s. Now they aren’t a party per se, but they have many organizational/cult identities within the United States. Wiki lists the following Neo-Nazi like organizations:

·         People associated with the Business Plot.

·         American Front: an umbrella organisation.

·         American Nazi Party: Founded by George Lincoln Rockwell in 1959, this group was central to the foundation of the World Union of National Socialists.

·         Aryan Brotherhood: a prison gang

·         Aryan Nations: a Christian Identity organization founded by Richard Girnt Butler

·         Atomwaffen Division: a neo-Nazi paramilitary terrorist organization which is infamous for its killing of 8 people most notably the murder of Blaze Bernstein.

·         Creativity Movement: a White separatist religion

·         National Alliance: founded in 1974 by William Luther Pierce, the author of The Turner Diaries

·         National Renaissance Party: of occultist James H. Madole

·         National Socialist Movement: formed in 1974

·         National Socialist Party of America: founded in 1970 by Frank Collin

·         National States' Rights Party: founded in 1958 by J. B. Stoner

·         New Order: led by Matt Koehl with the goal of developing a religion based on Nazism

·         The Order: a revolutionary group established in 1983 by Robert Jay Mathews

·         Patriot Front: an alt-right American nationalist movement founded by Thomas Rousseau as an offshoot of Vanguard America

·         Stormfront: a white nationalist website

·         Universal Order: founded by James Mason and heavily influenced by Charles Manson.

·         Vanguard America: founded by Dillion Irizarry, part of the Nationalist Front and the alt-right.

·         Volksfront: a white power skinhead group led by Randall Krager

·         White Aryan Resistance: a highly racist organization led by Tom Metzger.

·         White Patriot Party: a group founded in 1980

See, I had no idea there were so many Nazi’s in America. It amazed me because we had fought so hard and at such a huge cost in military troop losses and money during WW II—globally, 70-85 million people died during World War II. One would imagine that any organization even vaguely associated with such a dreadful history, including the murder of millions of innocents, would find not even a toehold in America. But there you have it. We have our racists and our white supremacists, and that’s what makes for a Nazi party.  

So, Trump had a large collection of folks already predisposed to his white supremacist philosophy, if you can call anything Trump espouses a “philosophy”. We have Evangels, racists, and Neo-Nazi’s providing the core of Trump’s support.  But does that give you 62,984,828 people (Trump’s 2016 vote count)?? Wow, I would hope not. But our population in 2016 was just over 310 million people, so Trump’s vote is substantial by any measure (even though it was less by 3 million than Clinton’s). We do not know how many people self-identify as neo-Nazi’s, or as “racists”, although one survey in 2017 found that 9% of Americans, or approximately 22 million thought being a Neo-Nazi was ok.  Now that would be about 1/3 of the Trump vote in 2016. Think of that, folks.

And the amazing thing to me is that anyone in America thinks it’s ok to be a Nazi. Now, to be fair, Reagan made it ok again to be a racist, and I see no appreciable difference between being a racist and being a Nazi.  Remember, Trump said he was sure that at least some of them (Neo-Nazi’s) were very fine people. So, if Reagan made it ok to be a racist, Trump has now made it ok to be a Nazi. And that’s what the party of Lincoln has deteriorated into.

And so the Hurricane LIAR has finally finished. Perhaps we will soon see whether America itself is finished. Remember, November 3^rd determines whether we will continue as an American democracy. If Trump wins, it’s America RIP.  And never forget folks, the election is about more than Trump, however awful he is. The entire Republican Party (now the KKKNeoNazicultische) is also running. People like Mitch McConnell are running and MUST BE DEFEATED. MUST! Because Mitch has promised that no laws proposed by the Democratic Party will ever see the light of day if Trump is not re-elected. Mitch is now full-on Nazi. Heil Donald!

So VOTE people, VOTE as though your lives depended on it . . . because they do.