One of the things I love about my job is the fact that even though I work in a presales role, the core of my work is engineering. Yes, I have to perform presales work (which I refer to as "schmoozing"), and that work sometimes makes me throw up in my mouth a little. But at the end of the day I deal in facts and figures, based on
accepted theories and
statistical analysis. Numbers don't lie, and while someone might be able to use smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the facts, it doesn't
change the facts. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." Just so, John Adams. Facts care not a wit if they make you look like a complete 'tard, nor do they care if they make you appear so in front of your
boss. Reality sucks that way, and even though I have, on occasion, found myself on the wrong side of the facts, I'd not have my work evaluated any other way.
Which brings me to my current frustration regarding the Republican Party, and the moderates therein.
In years past, I considered the Republican party to be the adults in the room. I was a Republican for many, many years, and while my evolving sensibility eventually pushed me into self-identifying as a liberal (not a Democrat), I at least considered them to be
serious. Serious about presenting the best candidate for President, serious about evaluating and championing policies that they felt would best serve our nation. I didn't always agree with them, of course, especially on matters of social policy, but they were at least honorable adversaries.
Now? Now they're a fucking
joke, and I blame Republican moderates.
Yes, I
am looking at you, and you, and
you. This is
your fault. YOU let your party get so far out of control that the candidates you intend to nominate for President are candidates for the nut farm. YOU chose to select candidates whose grasp on reality was so tenuous the rest of the nation thinks the party (and the Tea Party) is nothing but a fucking joke. YOU allowed your politicians to embrace the "values" of greed, and lust for power, and a desire to have their own way so strong that they'll burn the country to the ground if it means they WIN.
Yes, this is
your fault. Embracing these assbags has allowed your party to go so far off the rails that those who hold power in your party will publicly and joyfully bring our country to the brink of
ruin in order to protect their super-rich constituents from having to pay the same taxes as the middle class. Letting these greedy motherfuckers speak for you means that even while they're defending the super-rich from having to pay taxes in an equitable way, they want to raise taxes on the middle class, and they want you to
like it. And you WILL like it, because they've convinced you that NOT voting in your own interests in the right thing to do.
You've let your party get so far out of control that the only moderate candidate in your field that has even a snowball's chance of actually representing the middle has no chance of getting the nomination. Jon Huntsman, a Republican who actually believes in
science and
reasonable discourse, is so far removed from the whackos that are Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann that I'm sure the shrill ideologues that run your show will have him eliminated FORTHWITH. After all, we can't have a candidate who's educated, erudite, has foreign policy and domestic executive experience - he's a MODERATE, and that's just crazy talk.
Yes, the state of the Republican Party is a sorry one, indeed. Why don't all you moderate Republicans do us all a big damn favor and take some control? And if the nutbags won't give up control, how about quitting that nonsense and joining us here in the middle?
Because hope is not a strategy, and hoping the screaming, theocratic, anti-American whackadoodles that currently control the dialogue will somehow become moderate and reasonable -
that's crazy. Deal in FACTS, moderate Republicans. Deal in REALITY. Face the fact that your party doesn't represent you anymore. You, or anyone, other than those who help your masters stay in power.