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The Party that Cries Wolf [1]
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Date: 2023-03-06
The U.S. Secretary of State waving a vial of a mysterious, dangerous white power — probably Sweet ‘N Low.
By Max Sawicky
Every local office is up for election this year in Virginia, including the one I am running for – District 30 delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. So the question is what fantastical, colossal, idiotic scare the Republicans will foment this fall. Because that’s how they roll.
Everybody remembers Colin Powell’s ridiculous, disgraceful presentation at the United Nations, in 2003. This was prelude to the biggest U.S. foreign policy debacle since the Vietnam War – the invasion of Iraq, purportedly in search of weapons of mass destruction (never found), out of suspicions of Iraq’s role in 9-11 (utterly discredited).
Since then we’ve had a medley of bogus scares and scandals. The most recent was the great Halloween fentanyl candy panic. Remember that? Was there any such candy? Of course not.
Before that we had frights over the threat of infection by diseases like Zika and Ebola.
Along with the fentanyl nonsense were dark muttering about drugs coming over the border, and/or from China. Zika and Ebola came from Africa, so immigrants and traveling good Samaritans were subject to abuse. The xenophobic theme here is obvious.
In my own election, my likely Republican opponent Geary Higgins has embarrassed himself in similar fashion. In this case the boogeyman was MS-13, a violent street gang with roots in Central America. He said he had a plan. Nobody ever saw his plan. The idiotic mailer below, full of brown faces, went around.
Do you remember all the carnage resulting in Loudoun County from MS-13 members? Neither do I. We also have to laugh at Higgins’ commitment as a candidate for state legislature to building Trump’s border wall. In Virginia? His confusion about where his lane is persists in his most recent ramblings about Biden’s role in stoking inflation. How would he fix that in the Virginia state assembly?
I’m reminded of the urgings of our leading, local MAGA-head, formerly of Trump’s Department of Justice (sic), to the effect that Republican activists need to transition from culture war issues to serious policy proposals.
These people have no policies. All they have is chronic indigestion. The risks are real. Best stay downwind.
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