Final Throes of the Big Boss Monster

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ITS FUNNY to see the GOP double down on Bush. Not so much “funny-haha” but “funny-wtf.” Or perhaps “Funny-freaky.” Scary! I mean, talk about “out of touch.” Is that a regular Republican trait? Because each Republican president lately gets tagged with the phrase, and rightfully so! Or…maybe both parties (because realistically, we only have two) get tagged with the phrase regularly because they are rich people who have often forgotten, for the most part, what it is like to live hand to mouth, as so many Americans do (or never have done so). I’m sure there’s a few reasons.

But honestly, it does impress me. The blindness. Some of these fools reallllly think that what the country as a whole (or a majority, rather) wants is George W. Bush? But a version that takes him even further? When we are all fried and frazzled over the last 8 years and can hardly imagine Bush being pushed further? Forget McCain. We know that poor man is not much longer for this world. We know who wears the pantyhose in that little coupling. With all of McCain’s rage and bluster, Palin comes across as much tougher, still. Her energy is raw, hungry, bright. His is ill, knotted, spurled.

And she is not “Bush in a skirt.” She is Bush on steroids. The Great Divider, Redux. Fundie Messiah Notions? √ Anti-Science? √ Eager to grab excess power? √ Incurious and uneducated on current events? √

She thinks we live in Last Times and that Alaska is a refuge area when the shit goes down (and clearly is ready to execute secession when signs present), she is so ignorant of science and public good and the dangers of abusing power that she publicly, from her campaign pulpit, promotes ignorance by promising to cut funds for science because it is paying for the study of “fruitflies in Paris” without realizing that there are hugely important scientific and physiological reasons why and what this research has yielded for human beings, including those who suffer from Autism (her own nephew). She, before even being elected, is pushing her authority past the prescribed and allowed boundaries, and all the while she masks her incompetence and agenda with a folksy, regalurfolk façade (no link needed). We could go on, too about politicizing the government (Troopergate) and being brought into an arena of power for which you are woefully unprepared and dangerously unqualified.

And this, even in the face of Bush’s tanked approval numbers. Even with so many signs that people, on the whole, want to move in a new direction.

And yet…it is like the Boss Monster on the final level of a video game. (and I don’t mean just this month. I mean over a longer arc. I think we can all feel the stirrings of history, here.) Just before you break through to hear that victory music and watch the animation play out that you only see once you beat the game; just before you lean back smiling and bubbling up inside with a rush of endorphins (yes, video games can be that good), the Boss Monster gets hella crazy. Heads sprout, heads split open, brains peer out, roars and shrieks fill the air, wings uncurl and spin like helicopter blades, a foul mist envelops you…all kinds of danger and theatrics drop down on the scene. And the Boss Monster is not just the McCain Campaign, clearly. It’s the GOP methodology. It’s too much of our USA policy and for too long. It’s exceptionalist swagger and racist campaigning. It’s Othering and Division. It’s Trickle Down Greedonomica. I dare to hope it is all this. And more.

So, here, now. The Final flailing before falling. A moment fraught with ugliness and violence and yet with wild hope and excitement that the stinking, vile, carcass of indecency and evil intent will lay in pieces on the ground.