In the Moral Calculus, Does Prominent Republican = Evil Douchebag? — Paul Krugman and I Suspect So

© 2013 Peter Free

 

16 July 2013

 

 

Now that national stage Republicans have lost all sense of moral proportion, we can probably substitute them for the Devil in our theo-political lexicon

 

It is a symptom of the moral illness of our time that too few people notice just how far Republicans in Congress have tumbled into an unalloyed representation of what Christ would consider sinful greed and antisocial reprehensibility.

 

In reacting to the House of Representatives’ farm bill’s elimination of food stamps, Paul Krugman synopsized the situation:

 

 

Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party.

 

We’ve gone beyond bad economic doctrine.  We’ve even gone beyond selfishness and special interests.

 

At this point we’re talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering on the already miserable.

 

House Republicans voted to maintain farm subsidies [“to agribusiness and the wealthy”] — at a higher level than either the Senate or the White House proposed — while completely eliminating food stamps from the bill.

 

© 2013 Paul Krugman, Hunger Games, U.S.A., New York Times (14 July 2013) (paragraph split)

 

Republicans.  Always eager to justify a handout to plutocratic pockets. Ever resentful of Christ’s poor.

 

 

The moral? — By your actions, shall we know ye

 

When prominent Republicans parade their Christianity for political purposes, their hypocrisy has passed beyond the morally concerning to the devilishly laughable.