Being Republican is a privilege. It’s a privilege that comes with shutting things down. Like connections. And humanity. Or intelligence.

See, society is like the brain. If you fund art and education, and you intentionally breed genius — you don’t have anything left for feigned heroism, weaponized debates over nonsense, aggressive domination, con-jobs, environmental omnicide and war. You can no longer defend pouring the product of the work of the population into prisons and weapons and other forms of ‘commerce’.

So what you want is to shut things down. Brain areas, for example. You build those that nourish hubristic grandstanding and mimic heroism, and you shut those down that encourage intelligence, creative thought, or fellowship — except as these may pertain to manipulating the stooges your own educational policies purposefully produce.

Just because your brain is capable of great and humanistic prowess and creativity, doesn’t mean that should be accessible to you — or anyone. You have to shut that down to get the really good stuff, which is a part of the privilege of being Republican.

It’s the privilege that comes from the stupidity of shutting off whole segments of possible intelligence for the sake of a few domineering mimics. Like trading your kids for a large tumor that attacks your neighbors with cancer while they sleep. Or grinding up grandma for dog-food because, after all ‘she’s really just taking up space’.

Being Republican is the kind of privilege that brings us prisons, war, human isolation, crime, addiction, economic, social and environmental apocalypse, and terror. It is the privilege of insulting or destroying those people and organizations who believe in ideals worthy of our humanity, and supporting those people and organizations who will serve and defend a tiny minority of staggeringly wealthy tyrants and corporations against the entire living planet, its children, and their future.

Frankly, this is a kind of privilege we can do without.

Forever.