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My thumb is suffering pain from overuse due to making excessive volume adjustments on my remote to protect my psyche from the shrill and grating drone emanating from the mouths of the reality-challenged, privilege-defending, trump-fearing, post-credibility rapscallions representing the Republican enterprise in this impeachment business.

These congressional hearings might be more properly termed the “Schizophrenia Sessions.”  I am hard-pressed to imagine anything crazier than listening to the cognitively-dissonant Republicans blather their revisionist denials of the reality staring directly back at them, while exhibiting no evidence of embarrassment or shame, as if they were patriots defending the Constitution instead of partisans conspiring to undermine it.

While these legislators might look like normal people, their actions assure us they are not. How they can follow, repeating their propagandistic drivel with straight faces as, one by one, Democrats, operating under the rules set by objective reality, honestly speak truth to power, is quite frankly, unbelievable! And yet, there it was, on television for all the world to see.

What this illustrates is that, unburdened by shame, his defenders, just like trump himself, are not bound by any moral code that might otherwise limit the depths to which they will sink toward the furtherance of their goals.

To witness Republicans’ behavior in the hearings is akin to attending a seminar highlighting the science behind propaganda dissemination, media manipulation, behavioral programming, subliminal messaging and other forms of mind control. To see such mass lying orchestrated so smoothly lends an ugly aura over the proceedings reminiscent of the one that surrounds Stephen Miller wherever he appears.

The Reptilicans, in their endeavor to defend the defiler-in-chief, are all complicit in a scheme to pervert the Constitution—an undertaking with long-term consequences—to suit their short-term political goals. Their mantra, as evidenced by their legislative record, is “the end justifies the means, whatever the cost (so long as it doesn’t affect us).”

Their self-righteous indignation is stunning! Let me repeat that—their self-righteous indignation is stunning! How can they not see, in their heart of hearts, the full implications of the Faustian bargains they have made?

I’ve seldom, if ever, quoted scripture in my writing, but the relevance of Mark 8:36 to this situation  rings loudly in my ears: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

Tim Konrad

2019.12.18