Suicide by GOP

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Tune into national or local news on any day and you’re bound to see another sad story about murder-suicide. It goes like this: Divorced Dad doesn’t like the court-ordered financial settlement or the custody arrangements or the fact that his wife, who he used to control, is no longer under his control, so he shows up on Christmas Eve and kills the whole family and himself.

There was an ideal, you see, a way things ought to be. And if things can’t be that way, he’s not capable of adjusting or moving on. No, the wife, the kids and the dog – they all have to die. And the house definitely needs to be burned down.

And that’s what Trump supporters are doing to America: “If I can’t have you, if I can’t control you, if you don’t meet my ideal, I’d rather burn this motherfucker down.” They hate progressive, legalized-pot, gay-marriage, Black Lives Matter, diversity America like Murder-Suicide Dad hates his ex-wife. That’s why they support the repeal of their own healthcare and the gutting of the CHIP and Meals on Wheels programs and the withdrawal from the Paris Accord and the adoption of giant tax cuts for the wealthy and the systematic delegitimization of the free press, the judiciary and the rule of law – it’s shooting the children one by one rather than letting go of their ideal of a white, male-dominated, “great again” America.

http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2018/2/2/suicide-by-gop

[Ohiogal]

1. Scary true.

[RainCaster]

3. Bill nailed it

[BigmanPigman]

4. I learned that when I listen to a family murder on the news it is most often by an angry

man with a gun who is pissed off at how unfairly he has been treated by life. Guns are the primary weapon used in domestic violence to women.
https://www.vox.com/cards/gun-violence-facts/guns-domestic-violence-united-states-risk

The GOP has a loaded gun in their hand and is using it to kill our democracy because they can't deal with a changing global economy and population and how it is effecting them. Poor, poor babies.

[MsLeopard]

5. Ive been saying

for several years that the US has become a nation of abused spouses. We’ve had the shit beat out of us for around 40 years now, since Reagan unleashed his “government is the problem” policies on everyday Americans (and beginning the most massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top the world has ever seen).

In many ways I think it’s by design. Abusive behavior working on a macro level. Sigh.

[BigmanPigman]

6. That seems like a pretty accurate assessment to me.

Reagun was the beginning of the end. I hate it when Republicans view him with such high regard and esteem. His 8 years were the foundation of our current problems in many ways.

[SunSeeker]

7. Bingo. nt