This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Hats off to Joni Ernst. Honesty is such a rare commodity inside the Republican Party these days. Her candor should be appreciated and applauded for what it is, murderous. Ernst was responding to voters at a town hall concerned their relatives would die, if proposed cuts to Medicaid took place. The audience shouted, “People will die!” And Ernst replied, “We all die!” Gosh, I bet a Concentration Camp Commandant couldn’t have said that any better.

It reminds me of a story about a tent preacher I heard once. He was shelling out the fire and brimstone malarkey about going to glory. The whole congregation was up on their feet hollering and bellering, except for one man in the corner. The preacher called him out. What’s the matter brother! Don’t you want to go to heaven? The man answered, “Sure, but not if we’re going today!”

It’s unclear whether Ernst has Schizophrenia and is hearing voices or has completely lost touch with reality. In either case, it is never a good idea to acknowledge your opponents’ talking points. Ernst has just helped the opposition more than she realizes. She has given them a slogan and a face. Remembering the Medicaid cuts aren’t being proposed to build schools or save the world from disease or environmental disaster, but for tax cuts for the wealthy. So much for pro-life, SHOWER ROOM THIS WAY, RAUS!

Forcing young women to give birth, while at the same time executing their grandparents. It is a new low in Republican Party politics and that’s really saying something. It’s a slippery slope, as murder is such a convenient problem solver. The Nazis began by euthanizing the sick and the mentally infirm in hospitals too! The German public was so appalled, the Nazis were forced to discontinue the program. Think about that for a minute. So appalled, the public forced a Fascist dictatorship to discontinue doing it. And they did stop for a minute. Then after the hoopla and public outrage died down and they’d promised never to do it again, they began to do it again.

Who remembers Sarah Palin’s “death panels?” According to Palin, the Democrats were going to force the sick and infirm to justify their continued existence and health insurance. It sounds so egalitarian now, at least you had a chance to make your case before being euthanized. Now, the Republicans want to make it arbitrary. So, get undressed and get ready for the showers!

The other day; two million documents about the Russian nuclear weapons program were accidently leaked online. After Trump singled out Chinese students for expulsion, a formal complaint was raised by the Chinese government. The ninth flight of Elon Musk’s Starship was a raging disaster. What did your FREE and FAIR media report? Elon Musk is quitting the government in an effort to save his crumbling empire of rust. That’s the big story. So, the Ernst admission of a planned genocide will likely die faster than a sick Grandmother without her medicine.

You see, there is a plan at work here. Republicans and Neoliberals believe there are just too many of you useless and necessitous mouths to feed and care for. They fear the end times, and fear Capitalism is failing and cannot be saved. Only the strong hand of Fascism will rescue them. If they can kill off say, four or five or six million of you, we could save a fortune! Then when the system does collapse from deficit spending on tax cuts, they’ll all be richer than god.

In Saudi Arabia, they are planning a giant cube with the volume of more than twenty Empire State Buildings. With shops and stores and luxury apartments. With a giant internal dome with projectors creating an artificial sky. A private temperature-controlled world within a world, where the wealthy never have to deal with the problems of the poor or the useless and necessitous. “Let them eat cake!” Buddha is comfortable living in his palace and doesn’t want to leave it to find out. Ignorance is bliss! Unhappiness is caused by desire. If you have everything, you desire nothing.

Well, guess what? You’re going to be shocked by this. Elon Musk is on drugs. No kidding? I never would have guessed. I always thought he was just mentally ill. Realistically, if I had Elon’s money, I’d be on drugs too! I’d be shopping in the pharmacy like it was Toys R Us. Gimme some of those and a couple of ounces of that surgical Cocaine. Elon’s is a legitimate prescription for dealing with the trauma and horror of being a self-absorbed prick.

Also in the news, Stephan Miller, the longtime Trump Obergruppen Fuhrer for the Turd Reich, is losing his wife to Elon Musk. Stop! Stephan Miller had a wife? How’d that ever happen? See, children? There is a mate for every man or woman, regardless of how loathsome or despicable you are. And provided a billionaire doesn’t come along with a box full of drugs and money, they can lead happy unfulfilling lives. Honesty compels me to say the impolite. Any woman who would marry Stephan Miller is suspect and should be watched very closely. If I were Musk, I’d keep those drugs locked up to prevent an exquisitely  planned, accidental overdose.

It is a sad commentary on the 21^st Century. Science and technology has given us the ability to heal the sick and care for the infirm, while greed has destroyed the desire to do so. In all of the Futurist’s and Science Fiction literature humanity reaches an age of enlightenment. We all work our ten hour a week jobs and live in comfort and ease. Instead, the opposite is becoming true, science and technology are making genocide socially acceptable. Primitive man living caves and hunting with sharpened sticks cared for their own sick and infirm. Modern man is reduced to a station beneath the likes of cavemen and Neanderthals as evolution turns back.

“Do you see these children,” but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.

“Spirit! Are they yours?” Scrooge could say no more.

“They are Man’s!” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!” cried the Spirit, stretching out his hand towards the city. “Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse! And bide the end!”

“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.

“Are their no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”

The bell struck Twelve.”

– Charles Dickens