Unthought Known

Before the election, We went to celebrate the wedding of one of my nieces on Missus Zombie's side. They've got a big, Catholic-based rural family, and it may be said that her brothers and I are fully aware that we do not see eye to eye on most social and political issues. Heck, if they got more sun, I would call 'em rednecks.

Anyway, during the reception, sitting around a table with several people as well as one of my brother-in-laws, the discussion turned to politics and the BIL flatly said "If that nigger gets in, this country is done."

Well, we all knew, and know, that balls-out racism lurks poorly disguised just beneath the surface of the Modern Republican Party. At the best of times, they use second-remove dog whistle code words to cater to their troglodyte, hate-filled base. Words like urban. Uppity.

In the latter days of the election, and especially since, the racist frenzy has been bubbling under with increasing ferocity. Portraits of Obama with a bone in his nose. The Obamas as terrorists and Muslims. The White House with watermelons covering the lawn. Obama depicted as a monkey, shot down by a cop. A picture of a raccoon, referencing the Nobel Peace Prize. And when called on these reprehensible images, those responsible claim to be unaware of the racist over- and under-tones. No, I'm not linking to those images; if you haven't seen them, a moment's googling will reveal them in all their disgusting glory.

At political humor web sites like Sadly, No, the discussion has often turned to how long it would be before someone would just, finally, succumb to their baser instincts in a public forum and be as brutally repulsive as my brother in law.

It's getting closer. The truly repulsive thing is that this was posted on the RNC web site for nearly a week. The RNC helmed by an African-American.

You know, at least my brother in law was starkly honest about his piggish bigotry, as sick-making as it was. Mainstream rightwingers are mostly unable to do that, because they know that outside of ever-diminishing areas, being that honest will make even more Americans turn away from them in revulsion.

The way I turned away from my wife's brother in disgust at that wedding.