Insight from Thom Hartmann
Here’s an episode of Thom Hartmann’s radio program called “GOP: Death Worshipers??” in which he points out:
Republicans are promoting death yet again and their funders, the morbidly rich right wing billionaires, don’t seem to have a problem with it. They could end this “death cult” in a single day — simply by refusing to fund further any politician who continues to embrace guns, transphobia, insurrection, and hate… It certainly appears the right wing uber-rich worship death…or, at least, the killers behind the cult.
It certainly does appear that most of the uber-wealthy take advantage of the radical us-versus-them polarization that has brought this country to the brink of an authoritarian government. If it weren’t for the gun-nuts, the racists, the homophobes, and the bible-thumpers, life would cease to be as terrifying as it is now, and it would be harder to prevent the common American from thinking outside the box with respect to our elections. This helps to put tight limits on the candidates who are viable, and means a true progressive could not possibly become President of the United States.
I’m not sure I’d say that the rich “worship death,” but rather that they find the tens of thousands of shootings, to take an example, is an exceedingly small price to pay for the prize of controlling our nation.
