See GOP run: Explaining simple truths, one syllable at a time.

Gene Weingarten
WashPost
Published: November 10

As the Republican candidates have been madly scrambling rightward to capture the hearts and minds of their party base, have you noticed they seem to think their party base consists of people with no hearts and closed minds? This odd, cold parallel universe has been unfolding where the rich are especially noble and frail and deserving of protection, where rape victims should be forced to carry their babies, where bragging about executions gets a standing ovation, and where the United States should cut off aid to impoverished nations.

Now, I’m so liberal trees hug me; still, I can’t be the only one who thinks this is crazy. But for the benefit of those of you who have problems comprehending simple truths, I will now explain them to you in words of one syllable.

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You know how most kids think their moms and dads are the best darned moms and dads in the whole wide world, and so can do no wrong? That is cute and sweet, but dumb. Well, when pols say that to mean the land we all live in, it is not cute or sweet. It is just dumb. If you think our land has done bad things, that does not mean you do not love it, or that you are a Red, or that you want our foes to win. Got it? Swell. On to the next point!

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Times are tough. Lots of folk are out of work. Plus, we are rich and we are poor and not much else — as big a split as we have seen. The way to fix this, say the pols on the right, is to make the rich pay less tax. Sure, that’s nuts, but when the pols say it with a straight face, some poor folks seem to buy it. (I guess it’s all they can buy.) It may be true that if the rich get more dough they will make some jobs for us. But, heck, they might just eat more foie gras. It’s their dough.

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