Amy Acton. Have you heard of her? She’s running for Governor of Ohio. Her opponent is Vivek Ramaswampy, a brown man with a funny name who is nonetheless “acceptable” (that is, ‘one of the good ones) because he supports stupidity. Rampaswampy hired Acton’s mother to star in an attack ad against Acton. Acton’s mother says in the ad that Acton is a liar and should not be trusted. I presume this ad will hurt Acton’s campaign. I mean, her own mother?

The thing Ramaswampy and Acton’s evil mom left out? What Amy supposedly lies about. The details have come out, though. They kind of had to. Acton’s mom once married a pedophile. I know, that’s no big deal to cons, but decent people still have moral issues with it. Acton’s mom allowed her pedophile husband access to her young daughter, Amy, for a couple of years. He took advantage of said access and raped the young Amy on an ongoing basis.

Amy finally went to the cops and told them that the pedophile husband was molesting her regularly. An investigation ensued and charges were filed, not only against the pedo pervert, but against the mom as well. Amy’s mom and the pervert ran. They fled to another state because mom just knew the right thing to do in this case was protect the pedophile pervert instead of her own child.

The ad caused immediate outrage on the left. Once the background details came out, even some Republicans started questioning the ad and telling Ramaswampy to pull the thing. In steps the most infamous living pedophile in modern history, Donald J. Trump. We all know he has nothing against raping underage girls. He ran a child sex trafficking ring with his best friend Jeffrey Epstein for years.

47 says Ramaswampy should continue running the ad despite the fact that the ad mostly reflects the mom’s willingness to offer up her child daughter to a pervert in exchange for, what, a credit card? “Let me have a credit card and I’ll let you have my daughter.” Pretty sweet deal. Unless one is a decent person with a moral compass, which, pedos are not.

But there’s today’s GOP in a nutshell. Raping children is a nothing-burger. Ask them. They’ll tell you. Telling the cops you’ve been raped? Yeah, THAT’S the real crime in MAGA eyes. THAT makes you a “liar” and disqualifies you from office. The moral decline of the self-proclaimed moral majority hit the rocky bottom years ago – but the GOP gave them a shovel and they’ve just continued digging. They’re digging themselves straight to Hell, but at least they owned a lib for a moment…

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Neil Bush, brother to 43, has come out publicly as voting for Democrat James Talarico in Texas. He said he has issues with Paxton’s record and he likes the character of Talarico. It seems like he’s voting for the person he thinks best qualified for the job rather than sticking to loyalist party politics. That’s a fairly brave and definitely unusual thing in this day and age.

He’s not the only Bush to jump party ship, either. Barbara, daughter to 43, not the mom (who’s dead), contributed money to a PAC supporting Talarico, too. The Bushes once represented something of a dynasty in Republican politics. Moving to the Dems is a big deal. It says more about the failings of the GOP than it does about the Dems, but the failings of the GOP are legion and that leaves many voters with little choice…

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Okay, look. I know that these man-on-the-street interviews pick and choose to show the worst responses. That’s not a left game or a right game. That’s the man-on-the-street game. Ask 100 people how many states there are in the US. 97 of them say, “Fifty.” Show the other three. Aren’t they funny? Pretend those are the only answers you got.

But what if you ask 100 people how many states there are and only three of them say, “Fifty?” That really would indicate serious lack of knowledge, wouldn’t it? Recently, I’ve seen a spate of videos in which the interviewer asks the subjects to define communism. Person after person, they can’t do it. They know it’s bad, they just don’t know what it is. When the question is adjusted to define socialism, there’s still just crickets. They know to be afraid. They just can’t say what they’re afraid of.

Even Jarringly Dumb (JD) Vance tried to define communism as, “You want to replace American workers with foreign workers and you want boys to play in girls sports.” There’s even some truth to the part about replacing American workers with foreign workers. It’s just that the group doing that is the corporations that rely on H1B visas to bring in foreigners who will do jobs for less money. And, honestly, I’m not familiar with ANY definition of communism that includes sports on any level.

In the end, they tend to point to freedumb. After stammering a bit, that’s the best they can come up with. “I been free my whole life.” Uh-huh. Did you know? We live in the LEAST free, “free society” on the planet, largely because of widespread poverty and financial desperation, here in the “richest country on Earth™.”

They will eventually get to “free handouts.” Jordan Klepper from the Daily Show asks them about “free handouts” which they disavow, then asks if they’re looking forward to their free $5,000 checks 47 promised them but will never deliver. Oh, yeah, THAT free money is okay. It’s the socialist stuff that bothers them. Apparently, the “socialist stuff” is money that helps “THOSE people.”

The funniest part about this communism that they’re SO afraid of but can’t define? Nobody, nobody, nobody is talking about bringing communism to America. Communism is as failed an idea as Free Market Capitalism. Neither system is the best for the largest number of people and both systems fail for the same reason: an inability to address greed.

But socialism? Socialism does just great, here in the US. Our best systems are our socialist bits. They’re SO successful, the One Percent has been attacking them for ninety years. The One Percent are scared the masses might eventually figure out there IS a better way and then act on it. Having seen my American brethren over the last, say, fifty years, I doubt there’s much chance American masses will ever figure out they’re being played by the One Percent.

I know plenty of smart individuals, but, as a group? Americans are dumber than a box of rocks. It really was news to me, how dumb we are as a group. I didn’t know. But MAGA has laid us bare. Exposed us. It’s rather embarrassing to be an American, these days. No smarts, no morals, no decency. That’s the long-term legacy of this once-great nation the GOP would have you leave behind and, dammit, they’re succeeding…