MAGA: The OPPOSITE of Follow-the-Leader Politics

A funny thing happened on the way creating the GQP’s Dystopian Paradise, they passed state laws and constitutional amendments to pwn the libs and to stop the evil socialists from socialistizing all of the god-fearing right-good red-blooded Amer’cans! Apparently, it is a thing now that Repube politicians who actually hold elected office enact laws, policies, and state constitutional amendments that will nullify the horrid laws and policies of Dumbocrats that will tear down the foundation of America because WE’RE #1! WE’RE #1! WE’RE #1! USA! USA! USA!

Way back when the ACA was giving birth to the “grassroots” movement that came to be known as the Tea Party, some Tea Partiers got elected to office and while high on their own supply wrote state laws and constitutional amendments that made big government telling an individual anything about how to treat their own medical issues unlegal! You know, like gubment telling us that we had to have health insurance or we couldn’t have junk insurance even if we really really wanted it because not having junk insurance violated their sincerely held religious beliefs.

Anti-ACA Laws versus Abortion Bans

Turns out, now that those same Repube office holders what passed THOSE anti-ACA laws to protect us from libel trannies and gubment reach arounds want to outlaw abortions, and some sneaky conniving snake has passed a law or state constitution amendment that says gubment can’t tell individuals what to do for their medical conditions, so now legislating judges are legislating from the bench again by striking down those abortion outlawing laws.

Whut in tarnation?!?! Don’t those ding-dang-dumb Trump-appointed liberal judges know nuthin? Don’t they know that the law only applies to liberal causes and interests? The law can’t stop god’s work, and by god’s work, they mean MAGA priorities.

The libels done tricked us AGAIN! Dayum! When is Donald Gold Trump going to DO something about all this libel madness messin’ up our country?

Anti-Vaccine and Pro-Pandemic Laws

Well, sir, believe it or not, we’re about to repeat history. Those exact same Missouri Repube politicians that enacted the anti-ACA policies and stuff which is now tripping up god’s own work of making sure that the only people who have access to abortions are outlaws and the only people who have access to safe abortions are Republican women, are now enacting laws that will stop all those Dumbocratic gubment reach arounds by making sure we can’t be trannied during another pandemic!

These state geniuses have writed themselves a law using their very own thinking brains to be prepared in advance for the next fake pandemic that they KNOW the libels are going to foist upon us in order to take our guns and force us all into using the bathroom with real live trannies, not just the gubment trannies that make us do stuff — I know it is confusing when you enter the mind of MAGA.

This Missouri law will prevent anyone in the “great” state of Missouri from ever forcing anyone else under any circumstance to do the following:

• Get a #COVID-19 vaccination!
• Take anything that has messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) in it, you know like those #COVID-19 vaccines do.
• Use a treatment or medical procedure that will “edit or alter human deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or the human genome,” you know like the #COVID-19 vaccines do.
• Place any mechanical or electronic device under the skin, you know like a tracking chip like the #COVID-19 vaccines do.
• Or charge anyone a fine, tax, or other financial penalty because a person don’t want to no way now how have anything to do with gubment trannies and get that George Soros tracking chip embedded in them so the gubment can alter their DNA for their own nefarious purposes.

While watching these MAGA legislatures try to govern is more fun than a barrel of monkeys, we have to wonder what in political psychology is going on here? Hasn’t Ye Olde Blogge been posting about something called Follow-the-Leader Theory of Politics in which constituents just blithely change their beliefs and issues to match those of their favoritest politicians? Hasn’t it been supported by real live empirical facty-type scientific findings?

The Follow-the-Leader Theory of Politics

According to Gabriel Lenz’s analysis of the American National Election Studies only 50% of the sample could match politicians or parties to policy positions and that only 20 to 40% had a stable view on policy, strongly suggesting that the views of low-information voters are as soft and mushy as play dough.

If that’s the case, why are Repube politicians passing such stupid laws as the one in Missouri that ban things that can’t even happen like produce a vaccine that alters the human genome or DNA or embeds a tracking device in our bodies like we all live in some kind Stanley Kubrick science fiction movie or something? Shouldn’t THOSE politicians be able to establish policy positions and their supporters just adopt them? Ain’t that what follow-the-leader theory says? Well, ain’t it?

Like everything else Donald G. Trump, super genius, touches, this theory has turned to shit, too. I swear, he is the man with feculent touch. We should just call him Orange Finger!

Repubes live in upside-down world in every other facet of their existence, why shouldn’t it be true here, too? Instead of the constituents molding themselves to the views of their leaders, their leaders are molding their views to those of their constituents.

You hear them all the time whine and complain that they have to enact these dumb things or at least appear to be trying to or they won’t be re-elected, like the fate of the world depends on them being re-elected to their office of choice.

Instead of Joe “Almost Heaven” Manchin finding a way to lead West Virginia out of poverty and not tie whatever grim future the hardworking souls of the state might have to the dying coal industry, he shrugs helplessly and says “My constituents WANT me to take all that coal industry lobbying money so I can make the remaining coal barons billions, myself millions, and condemn them to living in Cancer Alley, drinking Flint water, paying for Texas utilities, and dying quickly and quietly when they start costing the one percent more than they contribute to their already bloated bottomline. It’s not me. I really want to save the climate and prevent climate change, but if I’m going to be re-elected, I’ve got to do what my constituents want, right?”

Ain’t that the way democracy works? If your constituents want to put out their house fire with gasoline, what choice does old “Almost Heaven” Manchin have but to bring them buckets of gas? That’s democracy right there, right?

We are indeed living through the stupidest reality in the United Fucking States of Fucking Stupid. God help us survive it.

Image Attribution

“Upside down” by Brian Smithson (Old Geordie) is licensed under CC BY 2.0.