I’m proud I had the opportunity in the last election cycle to vote against David Perdue.
Twice.
If only I lived one Congressional district to the northwest, I could take pride in voting against the Klan Moim, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
And I will probably get the chance this fall to vote against Herschel Walker, Brian Kemp and some of the other wack jobs who pass for Republicans here in Georgia.
I might possibly vote for one Republican this fall. Our secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, should get credit for refusing to steal the state for Donald Trump in 2020.
Of course Perdue, such a bad senator that he couldn’t even win a second term, thinks it was Democrats who stole the election. Even though Trump’s narrow defeat in Georgia did not cost him the election, and he lost by seven million votes nationwide, Perdue is insisting Trump really won.
“First off, let me be very clear tonight,” Perdue said Sunday night in his GOP debate with Kemp, “the election in 2020 was rigged and stolen.”
No, it wasn’t.
In fact, Trump and his Trumpanzees may be permanently damaging our political system by insisting on it.
It’s called the Big Lie.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
This has been attributed to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, although he may not actually have said it.
To lie as Trump has about the election, you must be completely shameless. And to support that lie, especially when you’re smart enough to know it’s a lie, means you are so desperate to win that you will say anything.
It isn’t as if Georgia is the only problem or even the biggest one. There’s a bizarre race going on in Ohio for a senatorial nomination, with Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance renouncing earlier criticism of Trump to gain his support.
It’s just that I know Georgia.
It’s where I live.
Republicans apparently have made a major strategic change. Instead of the traditional “cut-tax-small-government” philosophy they have at least sort of followed since Ronald Reagan, the GOP apparently has decided to double down on the culture war.
Just look at Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis has apparently declared war on Disney.
I have never wished I lived in Florida, but I sure wouldn’t mind having the opportunity to vote against DeSantis.
Of course there are Republicans everywhere.
They’re like termites.