Chickens

By Sniffles

The religious right started rising to prominence when it helped Ronald Reagan win the 1980 election. Which means that for more than 40 years now, we cats (who have nine lives) have been warning low-information/no-information/uninterested voters that yesterday's Supreme Court hearing on Roe vs. Wade could happen. Alas, they never believed us.

But votes matter. Elections matter. And throwing your vote away on third-party idiots for stupid reasons also matters. Does it ever!

Yesterday's SCOTUS hearing was about all those Americans who thought it would be fun to support John Anderson in 1980. It was about voters who thought it would be in their financial interest to vote for Reagan and tax cuts, too. It was about everybody who thought Reagan's apparently-tossed-off-but-in-reality-carefully-planned 1984 quip about Walter Mondale's youth and inexperience was hilarious. It was about all the voters who thought Michael Dukakis looked ridiculous riding in a tank, or that Al Gore sighed too much in that debate — and why not vote for Ralph Nader anyway? It was for everyone who thought George W. Bush was a brave wartime leader. (Besides, there was something fishy about John Kerry and his Swift Boat, wasn't there?)

More than anything else, though, yesterday was about everyone who cared more about Hillary's emails than about their own personal freedoms in 2016. Vote for Trump or Jill Stein? Sure!

Folks, the email lady was right about everything — and now we're in the chicken-roosting stage of the game.

Maybe we have to end abortion to save abortion, to keep the Democrats in power, to punish the GOP for its nihilism and hate, and, most important, to save the Republic. We cats HISS.