Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's alternate universe

© 2016 Peter Free

 

09 December 2016

 

 

Cynicism provides little protection against national schizophrenia

 

Even cynical me is sometimes overwhelmed by American leadership's never-ending duplicity.

 

We are so firmly in the Crazy Boat that we no longer recognize Reality of any kind.

 

 

For example — the Democratic Party's psychotic hypocrisy

 

Yesterday, Harry Reid — the U.S. Senate's consummately Machiavellian plutocrat-embracer — chose to leave Congress by pretending to be the Holy Unicorn of Righteous Godliness:

 

 

Retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) bade farewell Thursday, citing the words of George Orwell, Leonard Cohen and the Pope to caution America against falling under the sway of plutocrats.

 

“Something has to be done about the outrageous amount of money from sources that are dark, unknown, now involved in our federal elections,” Reid said . . . .

 

“If this doesn’t change, and we don’t do something about this vast money coming into our elections, in a couple more election cycles, we’re going to be just like Russia” . . . .

 

“We’re going to have a plutocracy ― a few rich guys telling our leader what to do.”

 

“We’re entering a new Gilded Age. It has never been more important to be able to distinguish between what’s real and what is fake" . . . .

 

“We have lawmakers pushing for tax cuts for billionaires and calling it populism. We have media outlets pushing conspiracy theories disguised as news.

 

"Separating real from fake has never been more important.”

 

© 2016 Michael McAuliff, Harry Reid’s Farewell Address Warns Against Dangers Of The Trump Era, Huffington Post (08 December 2016) (excerpts)

 

 

The audacity

 

This swill is from the same guy, who pretty consistently supported Congress' sellout of American institutions.

 

Reid has been part of the stream of Democratic Party leaders — including President Bill Clinton and his equally "crooked" wife Hillary — in selling out to Wall Street and everyone else with a penchant for institutionalizing organized theft from the People. See here, here and here for sample sniffs.

 

Reid's unembarrassed attempt to sail the Battleship of Blazing Bullshit past the allegedly ever-seeing Eyes of God should leave us breathless — with either admiration for its politicized audacity or contempt for its deluded nature.

 

None of this is to say that Republican Party leadership has been any better. Republicans are just less concealing of their enthusiastic Robber Baron ties.

 

 

The moral? — Multiply Harry Reid's coy camouflage by virtually the entirety of American leadership

 

In the United States' concocted environment of lies, we can anticipate Liberty's last rites.