They Know

 

Taken from a Twitter thread, originally posted by @OdetteRoulette

"I'm going to say this one more time. The majority of Republicans do, in fact, know what's going on. They do know they are embracing fascism. They do know it will destroy our democratic republic. They do know. They just think they can have their cake and eat it too.

They think they can have an oppressive government that will never be used to oppress them. They think they can return to a time when only white men were in charge. They also are worried about competing in a fairer playing field. They do believe they would lose, if there was one.

They know we are an embarrassment right now on the world stage. They know what they are doing is horrible and cruel and wrong. But they don't think of women and people of color as fully human, and so they are telling themselves it's really okay.

Their stupidity is not rooted in "not knowing." Their stupidity is rooted in knowing it's wrong, but being so afraid of their own encroaching potential mediocrity, reinforced by years of getting perks they did not work for, that they will do anything to keep from facing themselves.

Whether we win or lose on Tuesday, they have already lost. No amount of backtracking or lying to themselves about real life events will take away the knowledge they already have in their own minds, about themselves.

The terrible part is that life on the planet is actually at stake presently, and there's a reasonable possibility they will take the rest of us down with them, in their attempts to flee from their own self loathing."

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.