Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Gen. Milley Embarrasses Matt Gaetz; Rudy Giuliani Loses Law License: A Closer Look" video.

  1. Well I'm going to miss this show while you're gone. The clarity of General Milley's speech certainly contrasts with the semi-incomprehensible rants that Republicans go on these days. And for me it highlights something kind of important. The Defense Department may get wrapped up in its own byzantine complexity at times, but at the end of the day they exist to do something real: defend America against actual, physical enemies. People at the top like Milley have to stay rooted in reality, because if they didn't they might lose the next war. They can't afford to get lost in fantasy land. Meanwhile the Republican Party is pretty much the exact opposite. All they care about is conspiracy theories and fantasies generated within the right wing sphere, to the point where Republicans often don't make much sense to people who aren't immersed within that sphere. Obedience and conformity of thought are what they strive for now, because they've realized that their traditional contact with reality, the election, no longer matters. As long as they have their fanatical base and control enough state governments to engage in voter suppression and gerrymandering, they're always going to get reelected. So why bother engaging in reality at all. That kind of thinking is farcically wrong, of course. Planet Earth is not fantasy land, and at some point the Republicans will have to face a reckoning. But they don't think it'll ever come, so long as they believe in the right things.
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