With many conservatives resorting to treason in forming sleeper cells and advocating violence against the federal government, it occurred to me that Republicans have finally entered the second stage of the greiving process: that of anger.
The stages are:
1. Denial (“I feel fine.”; “This can’t be happening, not to me!)
2. Anger (“Why me? It’s not fair!”; “How can this happen to me!”; “Who is to blame?”; “Lets form terrorist sleeper cells and advocate the overthrow of that which makes me angry”)
3. Bargaining (“Just let me live to see my children graduate.”; “I’ll do anything for a few more years.”; “I will give my life savings if…”)
4. Depression (“I’m so sad, why bother with anything?”; “I’m going to die . . . What’s the point?”; “I miss my loved one, why go on?”)
5. Acceptance (“It’s going to be okay.”; “I can handle it with change”; “I can’t fight it, I may as well prepare for it.”)
The thing is, I doubt very seriously whether Republicans have the intellect, introspection and empathy needed to move past the 2nd state. If they are not angry, they are in denial. If they are not in denial, they are angry. I have never seen a Republican depressed, and I have never seen a Republican bargaining. And since a Republican can never accept something that does not fit within their ideology, they will never accept that, to use Rush Limbaugh’s parlance, they got their political and ideological clocks cleaned by Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, and they, their ideas and their ideology were rejected by the American people in a landslide, and now, five months later, the American people still reject, in even greater numbers, them.
So we are going to see our Republican friends swing between anger and denial for the rest of our lives.