Ever since the 2008 election it has been commonplace, almost cliche, for Republicans to scoff at the word “change.”
In order to express their fear and hatred of the word, they’ve invented cutesy little slogans to plaster across their T-shirts, bumper stickers, protest signs and lunch boxes.
Incredibly brilliant catch phrases like “Enjoying the change yet?” and “By the time Obama is done taxing us, all we’ll have left is change.”
See what they did there with that last one? These guys are good. How can Obama hope to contend with such labyrinthine wordplay?
But mind-bending double-entendres aside, I’m really not impressed with the right’s whole anti-change backlash. It’s immature, and not to be harsh, but it kinda makes them come off as a bunch of pansies.
First of all, even the most stubborn republican knows deep down that you can’t actually be against change. Change is natural. That’s like being against the moon or something. So, I don’t think that its the actual concept of change that threatens republicans, so much as it is the change in government from a republican president to a democrat.
When the majority of the American people democratically elected Barack Obama, it showed the republicans that “change” wasn’t just something Obama was trying to sell during his campaign. He had tapped into the prevailing attitude in the country at that time, an attitude that republicans tried very hard to block out.
In spite of all of the GOP’s insistence to the contrary, America was going in a direction that most of us didn’t really want it to go, and the republicans were at fault. When we voted Obama in, the GOP didn’t just lose an election, they got dumped by the American people.
Everyone’s had that one psycho ex that unmercifully disassembles everything that’s awesome in your life, and even after you finally leave them they can’t let go of the idea that they did everything right and you’re just too much of an idiot to see it. That’s what the republicans are like. The republicans are exactly like you, Sheila. You castrating wench.
So, now the republicans in office whine and complain and make it look like change is the enemy instead of doing the logical thing, which would be to acknowledge why America voted them out in the first place. No, they’d rather go around telling people that “change” is synonymous with “socialism,” which has replaced terrorism and athleticism as America’s most frightening “-ism.”
They want you to be afraid of change. They want you to give up on this whole idea of change and come running back to them. All because they still aren’t ready to hand over the 2008 election. What we need to keep in mind is that we have a right to change. It’s called democracy.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Bush in office or if it’s Obama, if we aren’t happy with how our government is being managed, we reserve the right to make changes to it. Don’t let a bunch of morons bully you into thinking that it’s not OK to vote them out of office. Those guys need us way more than we need them, anyway.
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