For people like Dave Burris, politics is just a big game. When he pushed the GOP’s secessionist uprising talk on his blog, Delaware politics, he probably thought nobody would take that silly bit of GOP agitprop very seriously. He probably thought that a little tough talking gamesmanship was called for given the sad shape of GOP.
Who knows. What Dave honestly thinks about the secessionist uprising talk that he promoted on his blog is between Dave and God.
We can know this, however. We can know that some people who hear the rightwing secessionist uprising talk take it very seriously. I’ve always known that, but when I read the following quote I felt like I was punched in the gut.
“We recently discovered that 30 states had declared sovereignty,” said Mr. Perkovic, who lives in Lawrenceville. “One of his concerns was why were these major events in America not being reported to the public.”
I’m certain that reading that quote today has no impact on Dave. Being able to imagine that your game playing has no impact in the real world is a essential skill for Republicans.
Meanwhile, three fathers have been taken away from their children and three families have been introduced to Republican game playing.