The Fine Kettle of Fish the Republican Party Is In

Willful Blindness Is No Excuse

I just can not, for the life of me, remember a time when we’ve all heard so many excuses. The craziest part of all those excuses is what they’re about. In lots of ways, any excuse is to cover a perceived deficiency of some variety. The formula seems to be something like: “I do something deplorable, but okay to my way of perceiving. Then someone asks me about that very thing, I make up an excuse that somehow sounds better or more believable to my concepts of justified behavior. Then I promptly forget what just happened.” Rinse, lather, repeat. For a variation on the theme, “Once I forget, I then blame everyone around me for doing the same thing I just did, and I am, therefore, righteously justified not only for my excuse, but for the action for which I was embarrassed to begin with.” Echos of Oliver Hardy. Note to self, “That’s another fine kettle of fish you’ve gotten us in.” Just so everyone can keep up, that describes precisely the plight of most Republican political operatives these days. Maybe not most, but a fair percentage, certainly.

Whiners Unite

The problem is that when this kind of behavior is practiced by national leaders, a lot of folks who might be unfamiliar with the actuality of any given situation may very well tend to think a schoolyard tactical approach will somehow solve the problem the leader is perceived to be inflicted with. The non-supervised tactic involves automatic weapons fit for a war. This never ends well for the problem solver. He always ends up with his own problems. And there are no virgins as a reward, either. I always have to ask, how is this level of compliance achieved? The leader never says, “Go do this disgusting thing,” but the solver always thinks he’s gotten his marching orders directly from the leader. I wondered what possible connection could be capable of communicating such material at a distance. I was pretty sure it could not be telepathy. The tinfoil hat was supposed to protect folks from that anyway. Then I hit upon the idea of a possible resonance on the poor, poor me frequency. Some days it surely does sound like some of our national leaders must be affiliated with WUP (The Whiners United Party). Especially our ex-leaders. I mean, what else would you call that SNAFU going on down in Georgia?

Careful of That Boogeyman. Do You Know What’s Under Your Bed?

Is it any wonder that folks who are frustrated beyond belief that they can not do anything right, identify with a guy who can say that the unknown afflicter has a name and his name is Deep State? I understand Deep is a first cousin on his mother’s side to the famous Deep Throat. The big difference is Deep Throat was a real live boy. Deep State is a real live fantasy of a boogeyman who lives in the thousands and thousands of clerical workers and secretaries who make the wheels of government work. You know the ones. They’ve been working in that office since Eisenhower. And they know where everything is. Skeletons, a back up coffee pot, the place where the boss from the last administration would go to make out with his “secretary.” That lady or guy is absolutely necessary for the proper functioning of any government. Why would anyone want to replace them? They’re like a good wine, they get better with age. Old folks have more memories because they’ve seen more to remember. We call that experience, right? If that body of remembered knowledge is the Deep State, I think we’re all going to have to learn to live with it. Because I don’t think anyone wants to take the time nor spend the money to rebuild it into the exact same thing it is already, do you?

What a Colossal Waste of Time

Besides, those are the people who run our schools, our traffic courts, our county offices, keep track of who’s been born and who’s hung up their sneakers, even down to how appropriations get spent and on whom and for what purpose. Someone has to know how to sort through all those issues no matter how frustrating it may be to have to comply with the language and understanding of those government officials in their thousands. It is still comforting as a feather bed to have those people working endlessly to chronicle government oddities. We adults pretty much all adjust within the limits of our inventiveness. So I think it would be fair to say that we all need forgiveness or permission sooner or later. But none of this is news. We all know we make excuses for the most embarrassing events in our lives. We all paint those events with the brushes of our perceived correctness and how someone or something has done us wrong, even if it’s the stars. In short, we all make excuses. It’s not that we need to make excuses, because it’s normal to make mistakes. Mistakes are a normal part of learning and they provide a great way to mark something that you’re done with, but to meet that mistake with an excuse guarantees we make the same mistake over and over. Who has the time?

To Quote Joan Rivers, “Can We Talk?”

In ways it seems that over the last five years the news has often reported that the Fearless Leader had dallied in this or that transgression. The media loves this guy. He makes any media outlet money. No one can be more outrageous than Fearless and so they report every outrage he voices because his outrages get great ratings and great ratings mean advertising dollars. I don’t blame them for wanting to make money. They’re supposed to make money, but they also have a job to do. The news media is supposed to let us know what is happening in the world around us so we can know how to best cope with that ever changing world. Do we need to digest as news another report about the WUP national committee’s problem with funding due to life not being fair or whatever the excuse of the day happens to be? Lord have mercy there are people who are against their point of view and often illegal behavior. How can that be? They must be anti-fascist. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

Look, we all have television and the internet. People the world over saw the events of January 6, 2020. The courts have been handing down heavy time to folks who merely broke into the capitol building and did stupid stuff. Well, some of them did some heavy organizing with the objective of keeping Fearless in office. We know this. Now to say that Fearless is completely innocent of what he did is goofy. That dude was involved up to his ears as we all have long since observed. We all know that real New York gangsters always bad mouth the D.A. At least they always do in the movies. The only thing that makes any sense to me is that Fearless should get an Oscar for best actor for his role of projecting innocence in the face of overwhelming eyewitness testimony or everyone with a MAGA hat needs to buy a can of green spray paint so they can look their part. Anyone that Goofy has to stay in character.

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