These GOP antics should be seen for what they are, says ThomHartmann: 'theater to distract us from their real work'
It’s somewhere between comical and tragic watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The second was to craft a short soundbite of their own performance art that Fox “News” and other hard-right media can play on a loop. White Republicans dressing down a Black woman? Perfect for conservative hate media. There’s a reason the GOP refuses to publish a party platform or legislative agenda: they don’t have one, beyond doing anything they can to increase corporate profits and to keep taxes low on their morbidly rich donors. And to winning the so-called “culture wars.”“Deregulation, cut taxes, small government” is the GOP mantra. Meanwhile, the culture war keeps their base in a constant state of frothing-at-the mouth.
These multimillionaire Republican senators, funded by their billionaire pals, don’t have a second thought for any of those “issues.” As theagenda to get angry white racists to turn out for GOP candidates so they can stay in power and continue to do the bidding of the wealthy. The struggles of average working people are meaningless to them, as are the crises of people struggling with medical or educational debt that literally doesn’t exist in any other developed nation.
Their absurd “concern” that white children will be “scarred for life” by discovering that a small minority of white people were once brutal slaveholders is pure theater. As is their proclaimed worry that kids reading about the holocaust or a novel that describes the Black or LGBTQ+ experience in America will twist young minds. work of increasing the poisons in our air and water to jack up the profits of their obscene overlords.
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