Representative Alan Grayson Says Politically Incorrect Things that Are often True — His Latest Zinger about the Republican Tribe Made Me Smile — and my Sneaky Parallel to the Satire at Charlie Hebdo

© 2015 Peter Free

 

09 January 2015

 

 

Being able to condense complex social truth into just a few words is challenging

 

When one pulls it off, reasonable people may smile in appreciation:

 

 

For a five-month period that ends this week, every single elected Republican in Congress was a white Christian.

 

13 percent of America is African-American. 9 percent is of mixed race. 5 percent is Asian. 24 percent does not identify itself as Christian.

 

0% of those groups served as elected Congressional Republicans during the past five months.

 

The GOP: Is it a political party, or is it a tribe?

 

© 2015 Alan Grayson, What's Really Wrong With the GOP, Huffington Post (08 January 2015)

 

 

In 68 words, Representative Grayson captured something probably true — and simultaneously asked a question — that identifies a key contribution to America’s anti-People politics

 

Namely (in my extrapolation of Grayson’s insight) that the Klan of Kaucasian Kleptomaniacal Krazies is running things.

 

In fairness, I said “one contribution” because Republicans have strong background assistance — in pursuing the thieving component of our American political direction — from members of Grayson’s own Democratic Party, including President Obama.

 

But still, his zinger zaps smartly.

 

 

The moral? — Concisely stated “trueness” makes it easier to think and talk efficiently about Reality

 

That’s why I like Grayson. His arrows are often exhibit noticeable accuracy. They bite.

 

Alan Grayson’s talent in this respect is different and more admirable than Republicans’ crafty competing skill. Republicans predominantly like to conjure catchy untruths that are intended to be psychologically persuasive in the minds of our manipulated masses.

 

Grayson will probably lose in his pursuit of an immediately more realistic and diversity-serving America. Winning in a timely manner would require that we, as a public, be more open-minded and able to mock our inherent human ridiculousness than we are.

 

You may notice that this comment constitutes an indirect salute to the offensive satirical work that Charlie Hebdo was doing, which occasioned the Islamic terrorist slaughter at its office two days ago.

 

Being offended hurts, but it has the power, occasionally, to open our minds to the questionability of some of our unacknowledged assumptions.

 

For example, were I a card-carrying Republican, I might wonder whether I really am a member of the conjured KKKK that I have “hypotheticalized” on the basis of Grayson’s words. Who knows how my life’s journey might change, after processing that arrow-delivered insight.