DU Cries RAPE!!!!!

Democratic Underground | 12/2/04

[NRA1995]

RAPE Anniversary: It's Been One Month Since Nov. 2

It is now the 1 month anniversary of what cannot be described very well, other than the forceful rape and assault of the body politic by the Republican Party. Please note that I am not trying to diminish the crime of sexual rape by this comparison, but using it in the same sense that we use in history in referring to the "Rape of Nanking", in which a civilian population was decimated.

Using this analogy, as well as those of an abused spouse, can give us some insight into the pyschology of this situation.

First of all, depending upon your point of view, you may agree that America was raped previously:

Certainly in 2000, but how about the Iran Contra cover-up, which allowed George Bush Sr. to become President?

How about the treasonous negotiations with the Iranians to prevent Carter from being re-elected, and allowed Reagan to win ?

I think reasonable people can agree that America has been the victim of multiple instances of electoral rape and abuse by the Republican party. There are different ways to steal elections other than stuffing the ballot box, and they have been very creative in this regard.

So what has the Democratic Party done to protect itself, and in fact all Americans from this abuse ? The answer is very little, and may be understood using the analogy of an abused spouse. The abused spouse is often afraid to fight back or appeal to higher authority, because of the fear than something even worse might be done to them. The abused spouse cannot envision life without their partner, just as Democrats and the blue states feel obligated to honor the "marriage" contract between the states.

For an abused spouse, sometimes the only recourse that seems to make sense, when life becomes so degraded and intolerable, is to reciprocate, and respond to the violence with violence in return.

Maybe in the political realm, this may turn out to be the only answer for those who love freedom. The opposition does not play by the rules of a civilized and democratic socity. Maybe it's time to stop playing by the rules, as well.

[Poohbah]

For an abused spouse, sometimes the only recourse that seems to make sense, when life becomes so degraded and intolerable, is to reciprocate, and respond to the violence with violence in return.

Someone needs to tell these morons that the Republicans are the gun owners.

[Poohbah]

I am afraid of a leftist nut surreptitiously leaving a suitcase of dynamite in my local church during Mass or something to punish "the evil Republicans."

Actually, he's far more likely to, in the argot of the IRA, "score an own goal" in his garage while assembling the bomb. (Building a bomb is an engineering task; engineering isn't amenable to multicultural post-modern deconstructionism. The dynamite really doesn't give a damn whether or not you are free of homophobia, it only cares whether or not you connected the blasting cap to a hot circuit :o)

[IncredibleHulk]

"when life becomes so degraded and intolerable, is to reciprocate, and respond to the violence with violence in return."

I just bought a drum magazine for my Thompson. Come to Daddy!

[Dont Mention the War]

When it comes to the "they might as well lay back and enjoy it" line, WABC-TV weatherman Tex Antoine has Clayton Williams and Bobby Knight beat by fifteen years. Antoine said it live on the air as they were segueing from a story about a rape into his weather segment. He was fired pretty fast. That was in the mid-1970s.

[madison10]

Huh? The "abused spouse" was the American people who finally left the no-good, lying husband Democrats home drunk on the floor.

Hehehe. INDEPENDENCE DAY!

[Roccus]

I remember that. Good ol' Tex liked to hoist a few before work. It got him canned from WNBC in the mid 60's.