How Congress Inflicts the Heartland with the Apolitical Blues

Should He Stay or Should He Go?

It’s budget crisis time again. MagaMike went over to the Senate to see some folks who were older and wiser than he is and they explained that the government was going to stay open and his job was to get Congress to go along with something. They all came up with something for any reasonable Congress person to go along with and sent MagaMike back to do his homework.

What a great thing that was, eh? Not quite. Remember Chip Roy? He was the guy who complained about not having anything to go home to campaign on just before Congress left for Christmas break. That Chip Roy. Well old Chipper decided it was his turn to be the monkey wrench in the works. He doesn’t think the cuts went far enough. MagaMike stated flatly that it was the best budget Republicans have gotten in a long time. And then Chip Roy went on a news show and hinted pointedly that he was displeased with MagaMike to the point that he could maybe foresee a future development where MagaMike could be sacrificed to the gods of purity in belief. (No agreements allowed. Only demands.)

So, what is the problem? It seems that depends on how you look at this thing. There’s a way to look at it like Chipper wants to collect some of that free publicity that Matt the E.D. Crusher pulled down when he torpedoed the last Speaker. But then it is more than a little likely that MagaMike was selected for the job for his sacrificial qualities. Chipper just doesn’t have a lot of the sex appeal that the former dethroner had. Matt has that hair. Poor Chip, alas, has not been so endowed. But that doesn’t mean he can’t be jealous.

Then you could also take a position where it would appear that Chipper is valiantly trying to save the country from financial ruin. The odds are not favorable on that bet however. Perhaps the most inclusive view point for this entire production is to assume that the argument is really about the Republican purity of belief proofs required by the various orders found within the doctrinal cannons of Trickle-Down Economics. To say that Trickle-Down is a false god would most likely insult regular run-of-the-mill false gods. That’s how lame that sect of Republicana actually is.

Chipper is just trying to express something that he believes. It ain’t about anything religious though. It’s most likely about his injured righteous fairness he uses to lord over people who he sees as less than. Chipper is not being monstrous. There’s no doubt that he believes he is doing something well. What he can not see is that what he’s doing doesn’t need to be done at all. Unfortunately, doing what does not need to be done at all is a Republican skill set. They often exhibit real Got Talent prowess, too.

It takes extreme, even jaw dropping talent to even conceive of legislating State control of all women. This version of the State does not care whose baby a woman has, she just has to have it so the State can block immigration and build a young and robust domestic work force. My my, such romantic meddling in affairs which are well beyond their pay grades.

No, this does not make sense.

It’s beyond fanciful. What makes it so disconnected from reality is these yahoos in Congress who are proposing such idiocy are trying to say that they are appointed by God and therefore they must be obeyed. Our Christian Imams can be just as tainted and backwards as any Muslim Pastor of any backwater Pakistani agricultural outpost. It has nothing to do with God’s word on either side of that aisle. It’s about limited experience in the world. Nothing wrong with the experience that either personage has. Living in one place on the earth has benefits and it has limitations.

Probably the most glaring limitation for homebodies is the handicap on what experiences are named. Homebodies endure being handicapped due to the collective need to maintain societal order. This has always been done through churches or some other designated center where local belief is held and taught. We often do not notice those centers of local belief because they may sometimes serve alcoholic beverages and sometimes manufacture widgets of varying hues and uses. Just because they do not all identify with crosses does not mean that social belief is not indoctrinated in these diverse bastions of necessary cultural conformity.

Now, here comes our man Texas Chipperay and he has an idea about what is possible and what is expedient and his ideas have certain elements of hometown-limiting which the good man can not escape. It’s his experience and he’s honest within what he knows. But it has to be difficult for him to truly understand the urgent need to support our neighbor in need, Ukraine, for example. For him, it makes more sense to cut down the social safety nets which allow people to pull themselves up by their own boot straps. In his neck of the woods, if brown people did not have access to that social safety net they’d “go back where they came from.”

You can understand why people like Chip and the Texan Governor and ranchers all along the border want immigration to stop. There are more immigrants than there is patience in those areas. They have reason. But really guys, does anyone think that there is an executive order, or a fence, or an invasion of Mexico which will stop immigration? If you can see how that works, you need to share.

This is where the two ideologies collide. A defining characteristic of the Left is a drive to give aid where it is needed. To define problems that can be permanently solved. To build an educated populace as a means of building an expanding economy. Republicans have a tendency to be driven toward forcing society to conform to their ideal of service to the higher authorities. They have a desire to be that higher authority.

It’s good they push that agenda and it is because of that push that we all keep our belief in free thought updated every time a new update comes out. I’ve heard that there are some folks who are too apathetic to update anything. I’ve even heard of some who still run Windows 98. I don’t know if it’s an age thing or if it’s a Republican plot to make the internet too slow to watch porn. Probably trying to slow the internet since it isn’t as likely they would like the World Wide Web invading the goings on down to the hosey* or the grange or Ed and Jill’s place for Tuesday Swinging. And certainly not to the Wednesday night prayer meeting at the Tabernacle Baptist Church.

Here’s the goody: Congress is not a local institution. It is in actuality an international power center. This is a fact that was not lost on Nancy. One of her final international demonstrations of Congressional Power was a trip to Taiwan. That is not something easily pictured for the likes of MagaMike or Chip Ray, or Margie, or Gym Jordan, or Jim Gomer or any of the other MAGAdoodles in Congress. It’s too easy to find comedic material in their antics simply because they so often underperform to international standards of excellence. In other words, opera lovers will not be overly apparent on a given Saturday night back home where most MAGA people come from. But there are going to be some cowboy hats and pointy-toed boots framing glow-in-the-dark brass belt buckles making obscene movements floating just a couple of feet off a hardwood floor out on the edge of town.

All that belt buckle floating is thoroughly enjoyable, no doubt about it. But it might be so enjoyable that it perpetuates a certain set of limitations. You kind of have to be there to understand, ya know? Folks from those areas just might have a bad case of the Apolitical Blues, they don’t care who’s on the phone they’re busy now.

*Hosey. Northeastern Pennsylvania oddity. It’s a firehouse most often, but the law is such in Pennsylvania that a fire company can sell beer to make money. It’s much more complicated than that, but you get the idea.

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