This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It’s the fearsome force of frailed Fascists. First, they love you, then they want to hang you and then you end up drinking cheap gin and playing chess all day. Back in 2016, Mike Pence was a conservative wet dream. A pious man bible in his hand attending church every time they opened the doors. He was quaint in a creepy sort of way, always calling his wife Mother in the third person.

He was the perfect foil for Donald Trump with Mike’s squeaky-clean image versus Trump’s slime/crime machine. The Boy Scout and the serial killer locked blissfully arm and arm. The Republicans liked Mike Pence; they really did. He was a good guy. He wasn’t out to hurt anyone. And in a different universe and under different circumstances, Mike Pence could still be standing next to Donald Trump today instead of VD Vance.

But then, Mike Pence did the unthinkable. He went and followed the law instead of following Donald Trump. The Republican gutter warriors were calling for Mike’s blood! “Say, I know…lets kill him!” Howling like monkeys eating jalapenos and running amok in the streets and never ever running into the contradiction. The evangelical movement died that day. Mike Pence was not to be trusted and ergo all those pussy ass bible thumpers were now suspect as well.

And what do you have to say about it? “Oh, nothing.” I didn’t think so. Had Trump brought another Evangelical to the podium the vulgar herd would not have approved.

The Republicans have officially abandoned the principle of “Right & Wrong” for the principle of whatever Trump says. Trump is in favor of a national ban on Abortion but is also in favor of leaving it up to states. He is on both Republican sides. He’s all things to all people. What he says today has no bearing on what he might say tomorrow.

Mike Pence was forced into hiding. Mike visited the NRA Convention in his native Indianapolis, just to welcome the delegates to town. He was greeted with a chorus of boos and jeers. They didn’t want to hang him anymore, tempers had somewhat cooled. But in the Republican Party Mike Pence was Hillary Clinton and persons verboten.

Mike for some reason took this reaction as his cue to start his Presidential run. Polling in the low to mid one percent. Mike ran in the distance with the Mickey Mouse, “Me”  or Spiderman vote. Mike bows out of the race, no one really notices.

Mr. Pence keeps trying to get back in the Republican good graces again, but that ship has sailed. Mike now represents everything the new Republicans hate. He is the ugly scar in remembrance of the failed January 6^th coup. Mike is out, he did the right thing and followed the law, the bastard. Republicans lawfully prosecuted and jailed for their crimes are called patriots and political prisoners. Any news which disagrees is quickly dismissed.

With millions of Americans claiming to favor Donald Trump’s stilted ideology while still claiming to adhere to the principles of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. All things to all people. It is whatever you want it to be. Just vote for us. We are on your side even if we’re not!  We get it, you’re angry. Yeah, we’re going to cut your taxes too! It’s gonna be great!

But do you know what that dirty low-down Mike Pence did? Oh, they’re really pissed off now! He made a statement praising Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the campaign and called for unity! That S.O.B.!

“President Joe Biden made the right decision for our country, and I thank him for putting the interests of our Nation ahead of his own,”

How dare you praise something the Democrats did. “Shut up Donny!” If we want any shit out of you, we’ll squeeze your head. Who put a nickel in your jukebox! Where do you get off doing something decent like that? That’s why nobody likes you around here Mike. The pussy wing of the party talking about unity and integrity, blow it out your ass Mary Poppins. That wing of the Party no longer exists. Didn’t you notice Mike, we no longer care about right or wrong?

There are no more solids or moral goalposts. Big brother can increase the chocolate ration while at the same time reducing the chocolate ration. A diet filled with strict Fascist promises. All of which affect someone else. Trump’s going to build a wall to stop…them. He’s going to deport…them. He’s going to get even with his enemies. What does Donald Trump offer to his supporters, nothing! He gives them permission and a safe space to be angry and vent their spleens and hate.

Trump gives the vulgar herd the nod and wink to be racists and antisemites. It’s nothing new, “Not all Republicans are in the Ku Klux Klan but everyone in the Ku Klux Klan are Republicans. Not all Republicans are skinheads and Nazis oh wait, yes, they are. It’s Hillary Clinton’s basket of deplorables all grown up on Barry Bonds chewable steroids for morons.

Donald Trump’s long rambling acceptance speech was panned by friend and friend alike. The speech was too long and filled with words and stuff! Obviously, a lower-than-normal TV audience means nobody wanted to watch. Why watch? It’s just meaningless words in a rambling order. They like Donald Trump, but they aren’t crazy about watching or listening to him. They like the idea of Donald Trump more than they like the actual Donald Trump. It’s like Woodstock for crazy people.

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.” ― George Orwell