republican hordes plunder america

“And seeing the people in a state of such awful wickedness, and those Gadianton robbers filling the judgment–seats—having usurped the power and authority of the land; laying aside the commandments of God, and not in the least aright before him; doing no justice unto the children of men; condemning the righteous because of their righteousness; letting the guilty and the wicked go unpunished because of their money; and moreover to be held in office at the head of government, to rule and do according to their wills, that they might get gain and glory of the world, and, moreover, that they might the more easily commit adultery, and steal, and kill, and do according to their own wills—now this great iniquity had come upon the Nephites, in the space of not many years…” (Helaman 7.4-6).

The Gauls’ September 11, 2001 raid of the World Trade Center, so exaggeratingly disruptive to the psyche of American society, was child’s play compared to the Republican hordes’ sack of Rome conducted on December 19 and 20, 2017.

Of course, their sack of Rome is simply a culmination of a pillaging that the venerable Ronald Reagan, first American president to act upon Milton Friedman’s false economic gospel of violent plunder, started a generation ago. I say it is the “culmination.” But that suggests that the Republican’s latest “tax overhaul” represents the last of their rapacious assaults on America. It does not. There are still more walls to scale. Many more homes to burn to the ground. Many more innocents to slay. Trust me, they have gotten a taste of blood and will need more.

“Government,” the jolly faced old man declared during one of his demented moments, “is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." The Republican Gadianton robbers have been conspiring against the government ever since.

Please do not misunderstand. When I speak of Republican hordes, I am not talking only about the 298 Republicans sitting in the House and Senate. As I have said so often, the blame does not rest only with the 298 poison arrows that are those 298 Republican thugs. They only represent the poisonous tip of the arrow. They are simply doing the bidding of their constituents. The real blame, the real crime rest on the 10’s and 10’s of thousands of voters, who, knowing full well the philosophical ideals and destructive intent to plunder of those 298, bent the bow and released the string with its poisonous arrow by electing such gangsters to office in the first place. Unbelievably, insanely, madly, the electorate has knowingly, willfully, brazenly handed their government over to a bunch of Gadianton Robbers who despise government, and have but one aim: to undermine and destroy it. Ronald’s belligerent dictum has become self-fulfilling prophecy.

Oh, and I should say, don’t blame Caligula either. This isn’t his doing. This pack or Republican wolves would have passed this bill with any sitting Republican president. Caligula just happens to be the patsy in place at the moment. He is simply their errand boy, being told which dotted line on which to sign.

Will I weep when the east wind blows, ripping up roots and toppling branches?

“What east wind?” One of my “friends” asks. Every time I see him, it’s “have you seen the light yet? Have you seen what’s happened to you 401k in the past year?”
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“Yes. I am making out like a bandit. Literally. And, in the past two days, the Republicans have legalized additional banditry. You can have every damn cent of it back. I’ll even give it back with interest. I don’t want it. It’s a prostitute’s earnings. Blood money. Filthy lucre, slippery with the blood of innocent sacrificial victims.

“Though he be fruitful among his brethren,
    an east wind shall come,
        the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness,
and his spring shall become dry,
    and his fountain shall be dried up:
        he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
Samaria shall become desolate;
    for she hath rebelled against her God…” (Hosea 13.15-16).