You can say one thing about the American republican party. They are crazy from top to bottom. Indeed insanity and fascism are spread through the ranks equally and without regard to geography.
Take the case of recent Georgia gubernatorial hopeful, Kandiss Taylor. She ran on a platform she called, "God, guns, and babies." She was deadly serious. During the campaign she tweeted, "I am the ONLY candidate bold enough to stand up to the Lucifarian (sic) Cabal. Elect me Governor of Georgia and I will bring the Satanic Regime to its knees--and DEMOLISH the Georgia Guidestones."
Well, okay. She sounds dedicated enough, but, at the same time you might be asking yourself, what are the Georgia Guidestones? Unless you're prone to watching esoteric TV shows on the Travel Channel it is a reasonable question.
In 1980 a man calling himself R.C. Christian showed up in Georgia and commissioned the carving and installation of several granite monoliths that were erected in a field some 90 miles east of Atlanta. On them were listed a number of guidelines Mr. Christian and presumably others felt mankind should follow in order to preserve civilization and perhaps the human race itself. The same rules were carved in a variety of languages including English, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese among others.
The most controversial of those guidelines was that to preserve nature and our relationship with it the human race should limit its world wide population to 500,000,000 people. Another said that while nations should be free to rule themselves international disputes should be settled by a world court rather than--you know--the plaintiff bombing the shit out of the defendant.
While those suggestions and the others sound a bit more philosophical than satanic they enraged Ms. Taylor who was also telling voters she would enact statutes which would forbid children from wearing, "furry clothes," to school and kids would be taught America was founded on fundamental Christian principles. Almost as an afterthought she claimed the 2020 presidential election had been rigged and Don Trump was the true winner in Georgia.
Luckily for all involved Kandiss Taylor was trounced in the republican gubernatorial primary. She came in third trailing the winner, incumbent, Brian Kemp by 70% of the vote. In true Trumpian fashion she refused to concede her defeat. Her popular vote count was a little over 41,000. To put that number in historical perspective there were 32,000, or so confederate troops who fought at the battle of First Bull Run--an engagement they decisively won even though they faced more than 55,000 Union troops.
Early Wednesday morning someone set off a bomb at the Georgia Guidestones site, heavily damaging it. The response from the failed candidate was another tweet that said, "God is God all by Himself. He can do ANYTHING He wants to do. That includes striking down the Satanic Guidestones."
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the attack. It has been reported the perpetrators can get up to 20 years. While not a professional litigator, given her words before and after the explosion, I would strongly suggest to, Ms. Taylor that she come up with an alibi a tad more solid than, "God did it."
Meanwhile out in Colorado, another republican candidate for Governor, Greg Lopez had a unique idea for his state. He promised that once elected he would scrap the idea of a popular vote in order to replace it with a quasi electoral college style one.
Mr. Lopez, being a sly one, proposed the, "electoral votes," of rural (republican controlled) areas should out weigh those in urban and suburban (democratic controlled) precincts by nearly two to one. He based his theory on the total percentage of registered voters who actually cast ballots in previous elections. In other words if a county with 10,000 registered voters had a 70% turnout their votes would count more than a county with 200,000 voters who had a 50% turn out.
Hey, pretty clever, right?
Apparently a lot of people in Colorado thought so. Greg Lopez came in second in the primary, pulling down over 289,000 votes which was 46.1% of the total cast.
As Thomas Paine once wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls." Unless the Roe v. Wade decision and the revelations about Donald Trump's fascist ambitions wake up democrats, savage clowns like these are going to control the House and the Senate just as they do the Supreme Court. And it is going to happen within six months.
Yes, it might be time to look up the lyrics of, "Oh Canada." That extended trip to British Columbia is looking better with each and every passing day.
7-7-22
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