A baby rarely cries for no reason. It's usually to alert you of his or her discomfort. Without the protesting of climate change, women's reproductive rights, and global wars, these issues would have even less of a chance of being addressed. Change comes slowly but the right to peacefully assemble is the key to anything of substance occurring. You can't ignore the protesting students. People who lived through World War II insist that ignoring the protests helped ignite it. However, the line should be drawn going from diversity, equity, and inclusion to embracing terrorism.
As far as the current Middle East fiasco is concerned, the right-wing governments of Hamas, Israel, and America helped to perpetuate this tragic mess—intentionally. The right continually leaves us with massive budget deficits, wars to wriggle out of, and like clockwork puts us on the precipice of future wars. A few glaring examples are backing out of the Iran nuclear deal, moving the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, and invading Afghanistan.
But the left is conditioned for this by now. We're like the planet's caretaker. The left is always tasked with cleaning up the economic and political messes the right creates.
Evangelicals professing their "love" for Israel and pushing us toward World War III, which will invariably be the final battle in the trilogy, is beyond hypocrisy. The sole reason for their "love" is self-serving. Only when all the Jews in Israel are dead will their messiah (not the orange one) come. Evangelical Christian buzzwords like "love" and "peace" do not apply in this context so they should stop preaching.
Yet the inconsistencies on the right remain mind-boggling. Supporting Israel but not supporting Ukraine is sheer madness. We are giving Ukraine approximately 5 percent of our military budget without having to send a single troop to fight. If you fail to see how that's a bargain to deplete and weaken our biggest military threat (sorry, China) and support a country with free elections that was egregiously attacked for no reason other than to exponentially expand its land mass, I can't help you. Also, if you profess to be a fiscal conservative then you had no business rooting (or voting) for the $1.7 trillion Trump tax cuts. Breaking news: The only money that trickles down is from the shirt pockets of the wealthy to their cargo shorts.
There are only two reasons to be against Ukraine. Watching Fox News and the repeated verbal assaults by Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, and Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) spewing their pro-Russian dogma have permanently penetrated conservative brains. Or, you happen to be Ron Johnson, Rand Paul or MTG, who are undoubtedly on Vladimir Putin's payroll. It's not even Occam's razor. There is simply no other worthy explanation. If I were Putin funneling money to the GOP, as he did to the NRA, buying Congress members would be an excellent investment.
Besides, for a professed pro-military group, the right doesn't really care about burn pits, or vets, or for that matter, actually staffing the military. The Tommy Tuberville stunt was a good example.
At least the left cares about rights and not literally and figuratively tearing down the walls of our democracy. As of this writing there are still exactly zero members of antifa who tried to overthrow our government on Jan. 6. And the right perpetually screams about "law and order" while they applaud Capitol cops who got beaten by flag poles while kowtowing to Mr. 91 Indictments, who has never met a dictator he didn't like.
In fact, the only things Trump worships more than Putin, is chaos and himself. His followers are the model of inconsistency and anything he or his crumbling party does that are antithetical to their alleged "values" like infidelity, cheating, violence, fascism, stealing, or lying, are merely written off as minor indiscretions. The only thing that's "rigged" is the GOP.
At least the left has a modicum of consistency.
Brian Frazer is an Emmy Award-nominated comedy writer.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
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