Pander Puss and the Toe Tappers

Everything is existential for Republicans. It follows from racism. It's the default setting when you refuse to judge people by standards of conduct because you are then left with the need to judge people by arbitrary and invented standards. By their being, that is: what group or clan or country they belong to.

So this is racism and the implications of it are pernicious and systemic. As you judge so shall you be judged, there's the dilemma. Racists are always afraid to be judged as they themselves judge because it's arbitrary and unfair, so it all comes down to dominance and submission and toe-tapping trouble.

Why? Cooperation is inconceivable, a humane society unthinkable, balanced relations unimaginable. Always the question: who is on top? Hence the Republican horror of homosexuality. They can't imagine that domination is not an issue for some people so they unload their crap on bystanders.

Bogey-people. They aren't rational actors in the fear forum. There's legitimate stuff to be had there, on sale: global warming, nuclear annihilation, plagues and invasions. But their world is archetypal and associative. Have you ever been in a relationship with someone and realized that you aren't being seen?

That you are playing a role in a drama that has nothing to do with you? There's arresting, unresolved stuff on their end so they're cluelessly seeking catharsis in their relationship with you. Theater tickets are another option but the primal, repressed nature of their psyches precludes that. 

You will not find them where the tables are set up in the fear markets but in the alleys, byways and bathrooms, trying to toetap their way to self awareness, or kowtowing to Kochs and other such unseemliness, as does Senator Pander Puss himself, their leader in that legislative body.

It's submission on the one end and dominance on the other. They submit to the rich and powerful and try to dominate everyone else. You can't have normal, adult dealings in this situation. Always, just beneath the surface, is this need to force everything into a hierarchy of power relations.

Nobody wins in this scenario. It's arrogance and fear among the powerful and insecurity and fear among the dispossessed, the original lose-lose situation, which humanity seems destined forever to fail to overcome.