Republicans Plan Mass Suicide. This is How Cults Die

And they are going to take all of us down with them

MartinEdic
4 min readSep 20, 2023

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Someone call the Suicide Prevention Hotline*. An entire political party has decided they have no choice. All must die.

*The actual Suicide and Crisis Hotline is 988. FYI.

There won’t be a dramatic mass koolaid event with House Members keeling over and a deep silence descending on the Capitol. No, it will be far more squalid. Imagine a room full of overtired children quarreling and throwing temper tantrums while deadlines come and go and the law kicks in.

And things stop happening, like lights gradually going out all over the country. Do you have a flight booked in the next month? You might want to rethink that. Air traffic controllers will not be getting paid.

Hurricane or flooding headed your way? Sorry, FEMA ran out of dough.

I could go on and on outlining all the immediate and long term effects of what the GOP is doing in the House, or, more accurately, what they are not doing.

The latter is easy. They are not governing.

Actually they have not been governing for a long time, but now that fact will be slammed into voters’ faces along with doors to government services we take for granted.

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MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!