Saturday, April 13, 2024

A Fair Shakedown

What constitutes a fair shakedown? Republicans might be wont to wonder. What's enough? When are average people disempowered and screwed enough? The answer is never. Once they might have thought so. That was another generation of Republicans. 

The new crew is scared they'll be found out. They ask themselves, perhaps in some subtle, unconscious way, what they would do. What they would do if they realized they'd been suckered, lied to and shafted for decades. They would want to kill the fuckers. 

Kill the fuckers that screwed them. But there's no such thing as a fair shakedown. Republicans told themselves anybody who wasn't completely selfish and willing to do anything to win was an idiot and a sucker. That those people deserved to lose. 

That would be us. 

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