Conservatives: Privileges Revoked, Permanently by KTK

I’m sitting here Googling about, too tired to sleep, too bored to do anything productive. I notice a headline regarding how the jackass RNC Chair keeps issuing press releases demanding that Obama report to a press conference to answer all his questions about Blagojevich and whatever else he can dream up – in, as one report forthrightly noted, a blatant attempt to crap on Obama’s “honeymoon” before he’s even inaugurated. And I wonder idly why anyone is supposed to care what this clown thinks or demands, and I note with satisfaction that no one does, and finally a thought of some minor substance comes to me: it doesn’t matter what he, or any Republican, or any conservative thinks about this or anything else, at all, forevermore.

They have simply forfeited any claim to being taken seriously, on any serious subject, ever again. Nobody needs to pay any attention at all to anything conservatives say about anything, from now on. The questions they raise don’t need answers. The objections they forward to plans or policies don’t need to be met or refuted. The “arguments” that spill out of their dysfunctional peabrains are of no moment. They are simply negligible, intellectually, and very nearly as members of the human species, and that will never change, barring political events of almost unimaginable unlikelihood.

The reasons could be detailed: the people who sold their country to an oil and banking industry that complacently wrecked it militarily, physically, fiscally, and economically, and who still can’t stop yammering about tax cuts for businesses and the rich, are simply disqualified from discussing economics ever again; the people who continually embrace creationism, faith-based medical practices, and head-in-the-sand environmentalism, and explicitly and seriously consulted astrologers and the voice of God in making high-level presidential decisions are completely debarred from offering any opinions on any question of science or empirical, material fact in any regard; the people who invented and wedded themselves to “the Southern strategy” on racial pandering and, 50 years later, are still speaking in racial code, defending slavery, and running “scary black faces” ads in campaigns, while preaching about “post-racial America”, are Not Our Kind, Dear for any issue that touches even glancingly on race; and on and on through every other political, factual, religious, and cultural issue that exists in America. But the details are really just of historical interest.

The only thing we need to know about American conservatives is this: “Bush 43″. That’s it. Given that fact, that horror, that travesty, nothing else about them matters. By deception and corruption they foisted Bush 43 on us, and on the world – and with it the lies, the illegal wars, the secret detentions, the “renditions”, the bombings and nighttime raids and mass civilian casualties, the secret trials on secret evidence without effective representation, the torture, the creepy and intellectually dishonest justifications for torture, the puling evasion of responsibility for the justifications for torture, the illegal mass wiretaps and eavesdropping, the after-the-fact absolution for illegal wiretaps and eavesdropping, the corporate tie-ins and payouts and pervasive corruption, the budget-busting wars and financial meltdowns and environmental disasters and sheer, universal, even deliberate incompetence and mismanagement of the most vital functions of government, the creeping, ubiquitous infiltration of medieval religiosity into the most delicate private and public functions, the deliberate corruption of public institutions with incompetent, ideological extremists from dubious political and religious breeding-tanks, the constant scapegoating of dissenters or merely chosen fall-guys for embarrassments of the administration’s own making, and further malfeasances and misfeasances too numerous to recount. None of it was accidental. None of it was unforeseeable – even far before Bush’s first term in office, even before his campaign had seriously begun. None of it was unremarked or unprotested. But all of it was cheered on with insane and unquestioning enthusiasm by a right wing that abandoned even the most minimal critical tests of intelligence, rationality, or decency in its orgy of power and pelf.

So – if you were on the right wing in whatever sense, or a member of the Republican party at any time, during the Bush years: Shut the fuck up. You are to blame for the meltdowns, the disasters, the deaths, the tortures, the accidents exacerbated, the good plans bungled, the self-inflicted errors embraced and pursued. You created the Iraq war when it was known there was no reason for it; you saw the lies exposed and the justifications shifted and you approved and encouraged it all; you approved the kidnappings and tortures and did nothing to stop them; you watched New Orleans drown and didn’t care; you knew your government was conducting secret trials and didn’t object; you watched the oil companies and mercenary contractors get fat on US dollars cleaning up military messes made with US dollars and you didn’t complain; you nodded at the class-war insanity and screamed for yet more benefits and privileges for the benefited and privileged of one of the most severely economically stratified societies in the world; you watched public functions, scientific facts, and private lives and healthcare all ravaged by freakish berserker Chrisitians and laughed to see how easily their support could be bought off and how much trouble they could cause for people you didn’t like anyway; you watched a nation’s economy crash in tatters and quietly made sure you’d gotten yours first – and through it all you praised and defended the moronic war-criminal felon who bungled and stumbled and lied and gibbered his way into it all, and dragged us with him. You killed thousands, shamed a great nation, destroyed its reputation and its values and its standing before the world, while it was made clear to you, before and during each step of that sorry path, what was at stake. So much, for so long, but last and worst the last 8 years, are your fault – all your fault. And it falls to the decent Americans to finally come in behind you and clean up your messes – a project so bleak and daunting that it will take years to undo some of them, and much good that could have been done will go undone, which itself was in some part also your intention.

So – shut the fuck up. You have forfeited any claim to decency. You have been proven incompetent – criminally, murderously, and grossly incompetent – in every area of rational analysis, policy development, or public management. Your ideology has been proven disastrous, and your economic, scientific, and political theories ludicrous. You are the cause of the problems we now must solve. Your input is not merely not wanted, it has been proven both a disgrace and a disaster. Your opinions are worse than worthless – and have been proven so by the stark test of empirical fact in almost every aspect of policy and action. Almost nothing you believe is true. Almost nothing you do is successful – other than by way of destruction, and then not usually in the way you anticipate. Almost nothing you try works out right – other than by way of your own thuggish self-gratification. You are a positive menace to your country, its decent citizens, and the rest of the world. You are not wanted, and cannot be allowed to guide policy or action again. And it goes without saying that your opinions, preferences, or evaluations are of no value and no interest.

So shut the fuck up. If you voted for Bush once, shut the fuck up. You do not qualify to express an opinion on any public subject. If you voted for Bush twice, shut the fuck up, and devote yourself to some suitable penance – but don’t talk about it. If you still support this regime of moral perverts, criminals, and psychopaths, shut the fuck up about anything having in any way to do with American politics or public life, forever, and consider, for the good of your community, that you should report yourself to the local police for surveillance. You are the political equivalent of a child molester, and shouldn’t be allowed out unsupervised.

But most importantly, if you are one of the wingnuts who brought us to this nightmare and cheered it on as it developed, first and last, foremost and forever, shut the fuck up. Don’t tell us what you think any policy or law should be. Your opinion is of no value or reliability. Don’t tell us what you think of Obama, or what he should do, or what he has done. There is no imaginable possibility that Obama, or any Democrat, or any normal person whatever at any point in the future, will ever, under any likely circumstances, ever screw up as badly, harm the nation as greatly, shame America as painfully, or turn the world against us as thoroughly, as the asshole incompetent you spent 8 years cheering to ever greater debacles. You have foreited your right to have an opinion on what Obama, or anybody even marginally less criminal, stupid, vicious, belligerent, befuddled, or incompetent than George Bush, ever does. Since you approved the complete and devastating disaster of Bush 43, you have no grounds to complain about anything else, of any nature, whatever the outcome, that is not at least that bad – and there will never again be anything that bad. So shut the fuck up. You have proven that your judgment does not rise even to the level of criticism of the Bush administration – essentially a no-brainer as far as political or moral perspicacity is concerned; thus, whatever criticisms you may have of Obama or any normal person thereafter are clearly irrational. So shut the fuck up. Whatever questions you may have regarding Obama’s behavior or policies are disqualified – you asked no questions about the concentration camps, torture, secret detentions, and illegal wars of the Bush years, so you have no grounds to question the however-questionable behavior of any civilized person. So shut the fuck up. Whatever criticisms you may make of, or objections you may raise to, any public policies or plans by any decent and legal regime are irrelevant. You offered no criticisms or objections as the American Constitution was shredded and civil liberties twisted into a cynical mockery of violation and abuse. So shut the fuck up. Whatever opinions you may hold or values you may harbor are negligible. We have seen your opinions and values at work. So shut the fuck up.

American conservatism and the Republican party have held the greatest sway in US politics for most of the last 40 years; they have ruled as a dictatorship for the last 8. And they have proven their moral depravity, their fundamental intellectual dishonesty and incoherence, and their invariable disastrous consequences. You who espoused them have learned nothing and repented nothing, and as such have forfeited your claim to any place of honor and influence in a civilized body politic. So . . . shut the fuck up.