A Square IS a Circle . . . because . . . Well "Because . . ."!!

Some are wondering what in the hell is wrong with Congress these days, in particular the Tea Baggers in the GOP:  

We lurch from Crisis to crisis to crisis, bug-eyed rhetoric about the debt, unfounded, manic opposition to the POTUS, like if he’s the Anti-Christ . . . and so many other ‘collective’, Right Wing, neurosis, that end up with a rejection of Fact, Reciprocal Human Decency,  Empathy and What Works.  

I used to pride myself on being able to understand people and I still do understand These Folks, but this time it is a simple, vexing diagnosis:

They're fucking ignorant and are PROUD of that ‘deficit’!

For the first time in my LIFE I'm seeing people who REFUSE, although many of them WILL ADMIT they don't know how things go or work, to even entertain being told the simple truth or facts about ANYTHING WHATSOEVER!  If it isn’t what they want to believe or even ‘like’ then it will not see the light of day, if they have anything to do with it.  What's more, OUR PRESS is openly exploiting their colorful, bombastic, asses, LEGITIMIZING their INSANE, NON-RELEVANT POSITIONS FOR PROFIT!

For the sake of illuminating the scope and the tenacity of the insanity, we will use the fact that a Square is a Polygon as a ‘what-if’ ‘example-du-jour’:

These Tea Party fuckers will scream, for instance, that a Square isn't really a ‘Polygon’ . . .

"IT'S A CIRCLE!!!!!"

The media AND THE ESTABLISHMENT GOP will simply collectively say . . .

GOP: "This is a free country and everyone is entitled to their beliefs . . . we can have a debate on what a square really is . . .!  They're both shapes . . .  The President is touting Socialism again when he says that the Square is that ‘P-Word’.  They believe that crap in Europe!  This is America . . .!"

(wipe the spittle from your glasses or face after that one . . .!)

Media/Press: ". . .On one side The Democrats are calling it a Polygon, on the other the GOP are insisting its a circle.  It's the biggest political question of the day:'  Just what IS a Square?'  The latest polls show that America is divided too. What do you think?  Tune in tonight for a spirited discussion . . ."

I could fucking SCREAM!

WHERE IS THE VOICE OF SANITY THAT WILL DECLARE STRONGLY AND UNASSAILABLE WHAT THE FACTS ARE!?  IS THERE IS NO VOICE, NO MEDIA OUTLET THAT WOULD DARE SAY THE OBVIOUS STARK TRUTH WITH THE IMPOLITENESS, BELLICOSITY, TONE OF INCREDULITY, AND GUARANTEED OPPOSITION WHEREVER THE 'BACKWARD' REAR THEIR MEDIA HEADS:

"NO!  ENOUGH! A SQUARE IS A POLYGON.  OPEN AND SHUT!

ANY ATTEMPT TO SAY DIFFERENT IS A LIE, IT IS FICTION AND YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO PASS THAT MESSAGE ON TO THE PUBLIC!  YOUR OPINION IS NOT AN OPINION.  IT IS RANK UNTRUTH AND SHOULD FROM NOW ON BE BANNED FROM REACHING THE EARS OF THOSE WHO MAY NOT KNOW BETTER AND BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE EMOTING LIES THEREIN!"

The GOP with a heavy assist from the Press/Media have the effect on sanity and the World of Fact like Vinegar has on Sodium Bicarbonate. They are like Anti-Matter obliterating Matter.  They are the white-hot poker evaporating butter.  They are the flat earth society from Galileo's time, transported unchanged from then, but have access to the centuries of info after that time, but still INSIST the earth is flat . . . !  They stand there bellowing with their fingers jammed in their ears so hard even their ears start to bleed, which they don’t notice due to how wound up they are about their beliefs.

THAT is how I feel about this situation in this country right now!  From Health Care to Economics to Gun Control, there are totally fallacious positions on the issues being fused into the debate as a legitimate ‘variable’.  At times, these intellectual, shit-dusted farts are even used as the platform, the foundation for discussion, rendering any resultant exchange worthless and ready to join King Turd in the toilet as his newest bitch!  I'm cursing because I don't know what else to do!  I feel like I'm not awake, like an alternate reality has taken over the present one I am in, but I never went to sleep or got knocked out or was the victim of any such transitional mechanism when it happened . . .!  For crying out loud, how the fuck did 'reality' become a 'debate'!?  Are they going to challenge that Oxygen keeps us alive, that water is in fact poisonous for fish!?  Or will they say man killed and ate dinosaurs back in the day?!  Oh shit . . .:They've actually GONE THERE ALREADY!!  Damn it to all to Hell . . .!  My head hurts!

Fucking HELP!

(sigh)

I'm now resigned to watch a fictional news show on cable, crying as I achieve an 'intellectual orgasm' hearing the main character decimate the Real Tea Party and the GOP in a way that would make Kronkite and Murrow smile.  The catharsis of the 'experience' was so exhilarating I got goosebumps . . . and I twitched like a crack addict going through withdrawal!  I shed some serious tears (I didn't even know I was crying until my wife chided and teased "Wuss!") watching this show because I know I'll NEVER see a major news network do anything close to this . . . even though it is probably the ONE THING, if done, stridently and repetitively, might just wake the largely, ignorant and apathetic American Public up! 

Again my rant will not make its way to the Press(even though I may post it to their walls) to have any sort of effect on how these publicly traded multi-million dollar organizations do business or on the 'product' they produce for our 'consumption' . . . but I'm going to keep saying so.  One day maybe folks will wake up . . . I just hope I'm not too hoarse by then.

(C) Dike Matthew 4/1/13