Rats. The rats are running everything. Cannibal rats. They eat their own kind. They spread misery and disease. They're always nibbling. Infiltrating and nibbling.
The rats haven't fled a sinking ship. The mutinied. They gnawed holes in the ship and sabotaged it until it was could be commandeered by them, innately inferior elements.
Republicans are the rats. They'd rather rule in a shithole than exist in a nice place because for them nice isn't an option. Nice is unnatural. Life is shit. Creation is shit.
So let it all be shit. Republicans want everything to be shit. With them in charge. When they're in charge everything is shit, because they're destructive, so it all works out.
Self-fulfilling expectations.