Is the GOP a Reality TV Show or a Soap Opera?

Unless This Thing is Rigged the Votes are In

John Worthington
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readDec 20, 2022

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Illustration designed specifically for this blog by BSIENKART (used with permission from the artist)

It’s time for the first ever annual “Fool’s Names and Fool’s Faces Awards.” This was a difficult contest to judge, but honorable mention has to go to the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives. I can only compare the current House of Representatives majority party to a campy soap opera with a Hee-Haw-does-dry-British-humor as a plot line. That’s how nonsensical some of the news about Republicans actually sounds to me. The best part of this whole charade is that these folks in the news are thought of as right wing or even as conservatives. But then, that is probably the most relatively accurate description we have in our current lexicon of descriptive terminology for “batshit-crazy-nonsense-spouting-mother’s-sons.” Far right wing is clearly easier to say.

For example, the other day, Little Margie was talking to a bunch of young far right winger types. Margie was wearing a long black dress with a most daring slit up to there as she wowed the crowd with visions of how she would have made January 6th much more memorable simply by making sure the storm trooperettes were all armed. It was a well-received story but it would be better if it had been filmed as a comic come-on scene filmed in a frat room in the aftermath of a Toga Party. She’s a gay divorcee so I can…

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John Worthington
ILLUMINATION

As a published author/teacher, I draw on those experiences in my writing and use satire to introduce spiritual concepts through a contemporary political lens.