For almost eight years since 2016, the MAGA Republicans have subjected the public to constant and deliberate lies about so many things. But eight years are too long for lying without harm. At the time one may have thought that MAGA Republicans would have a second thought about lying, they shot the public with another lie, a big and blatant one.
The senator from Alabama, Katie Britt delivered the rebuttal to President Biden’s State of The Union address. Was she so designated by the Republicans because the senator was beautiful and charming, or because she was willing to deliver another lie? It was refreshing to see a female politician deliver a political speech, not in a Thatcherite manner, direct, straight to the point, but with a soft murmuring voice accompanying every word with a smile. She was totally beautiful and charming.
And she knew she was beautiful and charming. The thing she did not know was how to use her smile, beauty, and charm to make her speech coherently effective and believable. She smiled, a lot, at the wrong sentences or words. She oozed her charm constantly like a schoolgirl trying to impress her teacher and classmates with her smile and charm so that they would not know how bad her speech was.
It was not just bad. The speech was harmful to the nation, and in particular to the American children. And she had to know it was harmful to them because she knew it was a lie. She came from a rural family in Alabama and was elected to the U.S. Senate. Her success was, and is, an American dream. And on camera to the public, that living example of the American Dream declared that the American dream is dead.
She accused the President of creating the southern border crisis then immediately recounted the story of a sex trafficked victim she spoke to in Texas, so that the listener could not lose the connection between Biden’s horrible policies and the rape.
The whole story of the traumatic experience of the victim as told by the senator was a horrific lie.
“I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartel at the age of 12. She told me not just that she was raped everyday but how many times a day she was raped.” It was graphic and a detailed accounting for a girl of 12 to remember.
“The cartels put her on a mattress in a shoebox of a room, and they sent men through that door over and over again for hours and hours on end. We would not be ok with this happening in a third world country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time that we start acting like one. President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace.” Horrific! The Biden Administration be damned!
It turned out to be a big lie told by the senator with gusto, fake indignation, and fantastic imagination. The girl was sex trafficked not by the cartels but by a pimp. It happened not in the U.S. but in Mexico. And it happened while George W. Bush was in the White House, 20 odd years ago.
The lie was roundly denounced even by Republicans, but it was too late. The children, probably including Senator Britt’s, had already watched it. They were traumatized by her story: after Trump had left the White House, the evil Democrats let the cartels into the U.S. to set up a shoebox room for a horde of their members to rape a 12-year-old girl “over and over again for hours and hours on end”.
She was passionate about the story. “Over and over again” is not enough “For hours and hours” must be added to describe her outrage.
But it was a lie. And she knew it was a lie because she talked to the victim.
Before the children could recover from their psychological wound, they were struck with another blow, much harder: a parent was lying. Her story was fake, invented and intentionally delivered with the beautiful and sweet smile of a concerned mother.
It would not be hard to imagine the children of a MAGA parent would leave the house in the evening when she came back from work. She would ask where are you going? They would answer a friend’s house. At this hour, she would say. Are you lying to me, she would ask. The children would adopt a Democratic response is it appropriate for you to ask the question? (The question Hunter Biden should have asked “Is it appropriate FOR YOU to ask me that question, Mr. Gaetz?” But he was too self-controlled and laudably non-confrontational to address the question to Mr. Gaetz directly and pointedly. If he did, the MAGA Mr. Gaetz could not have responded “Absolutely” with a straight face.)
That question would naturally pop up in the mind of the children when their parents lied to them. And that would be the real relationship between parents and children in the world of MAGA.
The American people understand the need to save, preserve, and strengthen the Republican Party for the good and stability of the country. But lying blatantly and abandonedly? And publicly supporting those congenital lying politicians?
We have seen a lot of people getting quick fame and even fortune by lying with the MAGA crowd and forget who they are and what they have said. They are politicians, who have sworn to uphold the Constitution and protect the country. How can the Constitution and the country be protected when the very foundation of Democratic America is rotten from within by their deliberate lies. They profess to fight for Christian values and traditions, but do they remember what they are? Do they remember Truth, Goodness, and Beauty? Do they remember the story of little George cutting down his father’s favorite cherry tree?
It is doubtful that individual MAGA Republicans just lie separately and independently. The lies must be part of a well-orchestrated campaign to seize power one way or another including driving the country to chaos and destruction of cherished democratic institutions inspired by Christianity. Non MAGA Republicans need to look beyond their reelection or plum jobs after political life and speak up. One wonders why Republicans with a sense of right or wrong prefer to be passive and silent. The Paul Ryans, the Mick Romneys, the Jeff Flakes seem to have left the fighting arena and left it to the Liz Cheneys, the Cassidy Hutchinsons to fight for the Republic.
Take a very careful look at who would be waving from the White House balcony. If the MAGA Republicans’ wish were fulfilled, we would see in January 2025, a long row of cabinet members, and possibly even Republican members of Congress, raising their right arms slanted upward shouting Heil Leader to pledge their loyalty NOT to the Constitution, Democracy, or the Nation but to the leader, who would be smiling benignly until he shouted to his secret service to arrest a reporter on the lawn for asking a question he did not like. The American Dream, Senator, would definitely turn into a nightmare then.
