KY Gov Bevin Offers Pathetic Bloodshed Defense
Here we have demonstrated exactly what’s wrong with today’s GOP - they don’t support our institutions, they don’t support our constitution, they don’t support democracy or our form of government. They are all for taking us down the path of fascism. Make that FACISM written in large letters now that I think about it.
In the past few weeks we’ve seen people go all but apoplectic because a black football player simply declined to stand for the national anthem. We’ve seen demands that Colin Kaepernick be fired from his job; Donald Trump even suggested that Kaepernick leave the country.
Yet here we have an elected leader, raised to one of the highest positions of authority in the land, publicly advocating armed insurrection as a valid and even necessary response to political defeat. This isn’t some powerless, frustrated 20-year-old spouting off, this is a 49-year-old governor who has raised his right hand and solemnly sworn to “support the Constitution of the United States” suggesting that violence may be the only recourse of patriots should someone other than his choice be elected president under the terms and processes laid out in that same Constitution…
This is dangerous, volatile and profoundly irresponsible. It is the paranoiac gutter talk of the worst recesses of the Internet given voice by a person in power to an apparently receptive audience in our nation’s capital, and down that path lies disaster.
Naysayers and right-wing hardliners might still be wont to believe the Tea Party governor’s excuses though lest they buy into Trump’s attack’s on mainstream media’s believability. That issue can quickly be put to rest by simply examining Begin’s actual speech.
In that speech Bevin focused primarily on the ongoing culture war keeping with the argument that conservatives are Godly and righteous whereas Democrats are the enemy that will remove freedom and Christianity if elected.