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Cave
Living Inside the Compromised Shell of Matt Gaetz’s Democracy
When you have to light a fire to look at the shadows on the wall of the cave to determine what kind of monsters might be in there with you, as you are stuck say in the high Andes mountain after a small plane crash waiting for help in the frozen snow, then you can only huddle in fear with your fellow citizens trying to stay warm. Any stirring in the far reaches of that cave will startle you. This is real life, and no Platonic allegory. The monsters are growling, and the shadows are startling.
It’s clear the Gaetz-wing of the Republican Party that the threats to shut down the government, violent aggressive displays of constant anger toward “The Dems”, impeachment Biden and Hunter investigations, are working.
The Gaetz-wing is belligerent supremacist hit-back style is the allegory of terror streaming over us now. Matt Gaetz is the “ephebophile,” directly attacked on line by his sister-in-law, Rozanne Luckey, who called him that and said he and his party white males are sexual predators, according to her continual encounters with them at her rich mega-GOP daddy’s home. He is leading this current round of assault of on democracy and decency, and according to her account, displays no signs of decency and only aggressive Southern non-charm.