CRUZ HITS TARGET WITH GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

Mitt Romney said it all with his 47% comment.  He summarized the Ayn Rand governing political philosophy. The “takers and makers” partitioning of the population in simplistically defined terms. The 47% of the population are the “takers”, social leeches, lazy, and the unwashed. They will never vote Republican; therefore, they do not count. It is best to identify them and rid society of them—anyone benefiting from the government is a target. In the black and white, yes or no, or, on or off Republican mind, that means anyone receiving a check from the government is suspect. Of course, he was not talking about genocide. What he was saying is that if you can starve them out or hurt them enough, they will get up and go find a job. Most people realize the simplicity nature of this reasoning is wrong to the core. Publically, Republicans agree that the reasoning is wrong and deny any association with that kind of logic. Nonetheless, the sad truth is that every policy move they make, they base on this reasoning; this “bestial” level of reasoning.

The current government shutdown is a case in point. Ted Cruz and his compatriots targeted the 47% and when they did they hit the bull’s eye. What their refusal to pass a simple continuing resolution is doing is calling attention to exactly those they include in the 47%—in there definition of lazy, etc. They seemed surprised that children with cancer benefit from government intervention. They ignore that park rangers and capital police are so lazy that they are working with no compensation. Other “lazy” people who should get up off there dead backsides and go to work include children on school lunch programs, thousands of children in the “head start” program, government defense employees, and welfare recipients of all kinds. Of course, the government writes Social Security checks, which is the product of investments “lazy” individuals made during their working years and has nothing to do with taxpayers’ dollars; gray haired leeches that should be working as Wal-mart greeters.

Although they act stupid sometime, Republicans are not dumb people or operate with low intelligence; therefore, I puzzle over their obvious conflict in reason. What can be the driving force that is so strong they do what they do? They can not miss the fact that  they are hurting people who cannot possibly work. They claim to have a soft spot in their hearts for “wounded warriors” but do not hesitate one second to prevent them from processing their claims—to hurt even them. As a person interested in evolutionary psychology, when I encounter a problem of this nature, I think about genetic propensities, which is behavior embedded in our genes.

Like dogs fighting for the last bone, Republicans seem to be so afraid that someone will get something they did not work for that they are willing to put them all into one group—the 47%—and “get rid of them” as being unfit to survive. They fall aback on this primitive uncomplicated reasoning, “you either work or you do not work”; no shades of gray or as the say in the computer world, “no gray scale”. 

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