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UPDATE: The Republicans are at it again, voting for the 13th time to defund ACORN the anti-poverty organization that closed its doors way back in Spring 2010. That’s right, once again, we have to unearth the discussion about how idiotic it is to harm something that doesn’t exist and why the GOP needs a boogie man. Rather than repeat myself, I figured, why not just re-post what I already wrote on the subject a couple months back on what I guess would be the 11th or 12th time they voted to dance on ACORN’s grave. If you haven’t read it before, give it a read. We dig in to the guts of this rather disturbingly inept policy of the Republican Party and why conservatism at large cannot let go of this ridiculous issue.

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June, 7th, 2013:

Have you heard that the geniuses over there controlling the United States House of Representatives, the Republican Party, have decided that the time has come for the American taxpayer to stop funding ACORN, a silly little urban outreach organization that has been absolutely demonized by the GOP, so they passed government legislation, yes they actually spent time on this, to defund the organization known as ACORN. Only one problem… ACORN doesn’t exist.

 

 

That’s right, ACORN shuttered it’s doors way back in the spring of 2010 following the infamous ACORN Pimp Scandal, which has since been determined to be a hoax. Before it was widely debunked, the cowardly Democrats and the desperate Republicans came together in a rare moment of bi-partisanship to eliminate government funding for the organization, which caused it to collapse.

So why are the Republicans going after invisible boogeymen? Well that’s what they do! ACORN was never really more than an organization designed to provide community outreach to the underprivileged and disenfranchised. This tended to help the poorest of Americans, the African-American and Latino communities. They would often help businesses in these communities try to jump through government hoops and they registered the poorest of the poor to vote. They became a villain following the disastrous 2008 election for the Republicans, who could not believe they were trounced so hard. When a minor scandal broke involving ACORN employees who turned in fake voting forms to meet their quotas (see the facts here). Many forms had names such as Mickey Mouse or Homer Simpson and were flagged immediately BY ACORN and sent over to the government for investigation. In what appeared to be workers defrauding ACORN, since the organization was never tried with a single crime, no matter, the Republicans had their excuse. WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD! No John McCain wasn’t about to, and eventually was, trounced, it was urban inner city “community organizers” that stole the election!

This led to the Republicans not only going after ACORN, successfully, as it was a tiny organization (see phony pimp scandal), and a new effort by Republican pawns and overlords alike to strip minorities of their vote since they were just going to vote twice anyway! The Voter ID scam, however, is a whole other ball of wax, that deserves an entire article.

My point is that this is how ACORN became the most hated community organization in the country by right-wing idiots. They could not bring themselves to reality and accept the loss in the election, so they found a scapegoat, a common strategy of those leaning heavily to the right. In fact they loved hating ACORN so much, they blamed them for losing in 2012 as well!

Wait, I know what your thinking. How can the Republicans blame ACORN if it closed its doors in the Spring of 2010? Well that’s the funny thing and there is a simple explanation: Republicans are idiots!
Not to say they are idiots because they lave low IQs or are incapable of thinking (though that does seem to happen quite often in the lower conservative ranks), no, they are idiots because they don’t trust anyone outside their bubble, allowing them to be easily manipulated into believing internet rumors, ie: Obama was born in Kenya, or Indonesia or something and somehow his mom faked a birth announcement in a Honolulu paper they heard once from a guy they read on the Internets.

Yet I think I understand the conservative brain a bit better than some. I spent a little time as friends with Born Again Christians and even a few New World Order nuts (remember them and their Illuminati Masonry goodness?). They are often taught to have faith in an abstract idea that has no shred of proof whatsoever. They are also taught to except a wise, and often uneducated, leader, who will guide them to the promised land. The whole world is going to end and it’s all because of a massive conspiracy that will usher in a 1000 years of darkness.

Don’t trust the outsiders, don’t trust THAT  ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’, for they will lead you astray. Instead trust THIS ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ for he is the one that truly understands the Bible, even if pretty much ignores all that stuff about that guy who loved the sick and downtrodden, said the meek shall inherit the Earth, hung with a noted prostitute and said it’s nearly impossible for a rich person to get into Heaven, ya know, the Gospels about that Jesus guy. No, no, let’s truth the guy who drives a Mercedes Benz and preaches out of a stadium sized cathedral and spends as much time selling you books and tapes and talking about modern politics as he does about the Bible, and when they do it’s all Fire and Brimstone this and Revelation that and all those people over there, the gays, the secular liberals, the minorities and their weird cult-like churches, they are all gonna go the H.E. double hockey sticks! Mark my words, friend (they often call you friend).

So when a guy like Bill O’Reilly comes along and says pretty much the same load of cow pies, it all kinda makes sense. It’s not MY fault the world is going to hell, no no the world is going to hell anyway and all those heathens are the cause of it! That’s why they had no problem making a big deal out of Clinton getting a blow job, he was bringing shame upon the Freedom Loving Jesus Loving American people with his highfalutin, fellatio hi-jinx.

Pretty soon you blame everyone else for every problem in the world because not only are you right, GOD himself told that man who told you it’s what GOD wants. America wasn’t just standing up to Soviet authoritarian expansion, it was fightin’ the Godless Communists and God would want us to nuke those atheist sons o’ bitches!

Here in lies the great manipulation. How a bunch of rich folk took over a bunch of simple folk and got them to fight for the agenda of big corporate  barons and the liberties of rich people is part of the Southern Strategy, a complicated mess that fused big business with big bigotry and big religion. Before that, conservatism was split by regionalism of the North and South. They share much in common, and they often totally conflict with each other. Pro Wealthy Libertarianism has little in common with religion, ask Ayn Rand. She hated religion and once called Faith “the worst curse of mankind.”

This god, this one word: I. [Ayn Rand, Anthem]

 

Many traditional business conservatives as well embraced the ideals of Charles Darwin, using Natural Selection to explain why they belong at the top. They are superior to stupid poor people like us because we’re just lazy and deserve our subservience to their pure awesomeness.

They united officially during the 80s, held together by their hatred of someone else, communists, liberals, civil-rights, women’s lib and the sixties in general, they fused together into something monstrously conflicted and equally duplicitous. Since then, their reliance on pointing the finger grew and grew and grew.

When communism ceased to be a problem they were in a state of shear panic. So they began to hate other Americans with the same zeal. Liberals became the new communists.

Today, Republicans need a boogie man to exist. They seriously cannot function without them. On every issue, a scapegoat must be present.

• Expanding power of the Religious Right – The Homosexual Agenda / Secular Satanic Liberals
• Repealing abortion rights – The Feminazis
• Eliminating social safety net programs – Wealthy Welfare Queens / Social Workers
• Eliminate all weapons laws to sell more guns – Gun Hating Liberals / Big Gov’ment aka ATF (not FBI or US Military)
• Give Corporations absolute power – Big Gov’ment / Creeping Socialism
• Preventing Single-Payer healthcare – Communist / Marxist / Socialist Obama
• Complete Obstruction in Congress – Nancy Pelosi / Harry Reid (say it all smug in your head and you’ll get it right)
• Expansion of American Military – Soviets (50s-90s) / Saddam (90s-00s) / War on Terra (present) / Muslim Brotherhood (future)
• Enacting Stand Your Ground Laws – “urban youths” with hoodies
• Why Republicans lose elections – ACORN / Welfare abusing Minorities
• Why Deficits are not the fault of Defense – The 47% / Welfare abusing minorities
• Why wages are falling – Illegal immigrants

And don’t forget the generic villains that are used for every purpose:

• Starbucks drinking, new age, bleeding heart secular Liberals
• Socialist Europe
• “Socialism”
• “Communism”
• “Fascism” (despite the irony)
• Young People
• Minorities
• Hip Hop Music
• Comedy
• The Liberal Agenda
• Anyone who talks about sex (minus Viagra ads)
• Women’s Lib
• The sixties
• Any Democrat
• Blue States
• New York / LA / Chicago (Big cities in general)
• “Hollywood”
• Actors in general (minus Reagan, Eastwood and Heston)
• Hippies
• Rock Music
• And pretty much people in general

Geesh, is there anyone left?

• Oh yeah, “The Left”

All this hate, no wonder they can’t get anything done, who has time to hate this many people? More importantly, how can you work with people who blame you for all the problems in the world.

The reality is you can’t.

In California, once Nixon and Reagan Country and home to much of  modern conservatism saw the demise of stubborn Republicans who took the party down with them in the Golden State. They refused to compromise, refused to move one inch toward the center and eventually the state simply moved on from them to the point they couldn’t win a single state wide office, even when they spent over $100 million and the Democrats had a Super Majority. If you live by your principles you can often die by them as well, and when your principles are based on hate, greed and disgust, maybe those principles should be thrown in the grave after you.

 

My hope is that national Republicans will see the error of their ways and start moving away from the fringe, at least to the point where they can compromise and get a budget passed. Hell, even Bob Dole, yes staunch conservative Republican Bob Dole said recently that the GOP is so dysfunctional, it outta “be closed for repairs”. When asked whether he would be welcomed by the Republican Party of  today, Dole responded,

“I doubt it. Reagan wouldn’t have made it, certainly Nixon wouldn’t have made it, because he had ideas. We might have made it, but I doubt it.”

The present leadership under the helm of RNC Chairmen and video game villain Rhince Priebus has declared the Republican Party “open for repairs” to little fanfare from the radicalized hate-filled base. Which only seems to prove that the only sign hanging out in front of the Republican Party these days is a sign that reads “Out to Lunch. Will Return!” I won’t hold my breath.