{"id":34448,"date":"2023-10-25T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=34448"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T13:44:04","slug":"republicans-are-a-cancer-on-the-body-politic-and-we-need-chemotherapy-stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=34448","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are a cancer on the body politic and we need chemotherapy, stat"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mike McGann<\/strong>, Editor, The Times<\/em> @mikemcgannpa<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"It hit me like a ton of bricks, Tuesday: Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party announced he would block immigration or entry of anyone who \u201cdon\u2019t like our religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the everlasting Hell?<\/p>\n

This is America, we don\u2019t have a \u201cOur religion.\u201d We have dozens of religions and many people who aren\u2019t religious. It\u2019s right there in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution \u2014 and was one of the factors that led to the U.S. rebelling from the United Kingdom and it\u2019s Church of England. Freedom of \u2014 and from \u2014 religion is a bedrock of our nation\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe Trump is just a lunatic \u2014 a man under multiple indictments and increasing impairment snapping under the pressure to say something fundamentally unAmerican. Surely, there was a torrent of his fellow Republicans denouncing his comments.<\/p>\n

Nope. Not a peep. It would be laughable if this wasn\u2019t the same pattern over and over again. Trump does or says something beyond the pale \u2014 election denial and leading a literal insurrection against the United States, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans through awful and inept COVID management, theft of classified materials, his obvious and blatant sell out of America to Russia, Saudi Arabia and other hostile countries. I could go on, amazingly, but you get the drift: Trump is a political anti-Christ to the American body politic.<\/p>\n

And the Republican Party response, with a few exceptions? Pathetic fawning. Scrambling to embrace crazy theories about Jewish Space Lasers, rushing to ban books, attacking the LGTBQ+ community, embracing racism and anti-Semitism, all in the hope of getting some praise from the Great Leader.<\/p>\n

The recent drama over the Speaker of the U.S. House \u2014 or lack of one \u2014 would be an embarrassment for a third-world nation dipping its toes into democracy. For the United States \u2014 that alleged \u201cshining city on a hill\u201d \u2014 it is nothing short of a national disgrace. A deep stain on our reputation which will, sadly, endure.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll touch base on Mike Johnson (R-LA) who, as of this writing, is the newest prospective Speaker and why people in Chester County should be really pissed that he is getting elevated, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n

As I wrote in 2016 \u2014 and took abuse for (feel free to apologize) \u2014 the Republican Party killed itself. When I wrote a few years later, that voters in Chester County shouldn\u2019t vote for a single Republican, to hasten the party\u2019s demise and speed the creation of it\u2019s replacement, I was raked over the coals on WPHT (the Delaware Valley\u2019s modern version of The V\u00f6lkischer Beobachter<\/em>) by the bootlicking Dom Giordano, I held my ground.<\/p>\n

And here we are, five years later, with the zombie GOP stumbling around, wrecking anything it can, its strings pulled at turns by crazed, greedy right-wing billionaires, hostile foreign powers and a senile, corrupt old man facing multiple criminal indictments. Fun things like election denial, vaccine denial, Moms 4 Liberty, overturning Roe v. Wade and such are fun side effects of this political cancer wracking our nation.<\/p>\n

Like the Federalists and Whigs before it, the Republican Party needs to die off and be replaced by a sane center right party.<\/p>\n

But it won\u2019t happen if you vote for them. In school board, township supervisor, county row office, court of Common Pleas races \u2014 if you vote for Republicans, you are stopping the needed process of killing of a zombie party. Don\u2019t do it \u2014 without a functioning center-right party, the left will get crazier, emboldened by the lack of a check. Trust me, at times, I already find some on the left insane \u2014 without credible opposition, it will get worse.<\/p>\n

Now. Getting back to the whole Mike Johnson thing: he led an effort the nullify many of OUR votes in Pennsylvania, falsely claiming that Act 77 \u2014 a bill literally pushed through by a Republican legislature that really wanted to end straight-ticket voting \u2014 was illegal. He wanted to make your 2020 mail-in ballot not count, so Trump could be reelected. As we know now, the little fraud (less than a dozen votes statewide) were from people trying to boost the Trump vote. The Pennsylvania election result was fair and clean \u2014 and yet this next would-be Speaker of the House keeps telling us \u2014 the people of Chester County \u2014 our votes should not count.<\/p>\n

Telling us which religion to follow, deciding which people get to vote, telling us who we can love, and open discrimination against those not white, male and Protestant is as antiAmerican as it gets.<\/p>\n

I love this country, with a deep abiding passion, despite it\u2019s many faults. We should be always striving for \u201ca more perfect union.\u201d To do so, though, we need to eliminate the cancer that is the Republican Party by denying it oxygen and votes. It must die, and soon, so the process of replacing it can begin.<\/p>\n

You get to help that process this November, If you haven\u2019t sent in your ballot, you know what you need to do.<\/p>\n

Stat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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