Wednesday, March 1, 2017

You Bought It, You Own It

Charles P. Pierce has no sympathy for those folks who are now regretting their vote for Trump.

Holy mother of god, I’m tired of reading quotes from people who live in places where the local economy went to hell or Mexico in 1979, and who have spent the intervening years swallowing whatever Jesus Juice was offered up by theocratic bunco artists of the Christocentric Right, and gulping down great flagons of barely disguised hatemongering against the targets of the day, all the while voting against their own best interests, now claiming that empowering Donald Trump as the man who will “shake things up” on their behalf was the only choice they had left. You had plenty of choices left.

In Kansas, you could have declined to re-elect Sam Brownback, who’d already turned your state into a dismal Randian basket case. In Wisconsin, you had three chances to turn out Scott Walker, and several chances to get the state legislature out of his clammy hands. And, now that the teeth of this new administration are becoming plain to see, it’s a good time to remind all of you that you didn’t have to hand the entire federal government over to Republican vandalism, and the presidency over to an abject loon on whom Russia may well hold the paper.

You all had the same choices we all had. You saddled the rest of us with misrule and disaster. Own it. I empathize, but I will not sympathize.

The only thing that will make it worse would be spineless Democrats who think they can either work with him — guess what — or who are too afraid of losing the next election to try to win it.

One bark on “You Bought It, You Own It

  1. I have no sympathy at all for those who are now saying, OMG! How could anyone vote for a person who makes fun of the disabled, disrespects women, and says he can do anything he wants because he is famous? He has no manners and is a charlatan. It was plan to see before the election. It is even plainer now.

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