Well, it was a deep fake, just not a culture war deep fake. Much of the tea party was astroturf by Koch and other very wealthy libertarians. And the answer to our debt ticking up was what? Tax cuts? Ask yourself why Republicans are so insistent on defunding the IRS, when the IRS addresses our debt, and its ROI is considerable.

I gave up being a Republican when I realized that I wasn’t their constituency, but they were trying to fool me into believing that I was. Their constituency are the .01 and 1% of the population who want to keep as much as their wealth as possible and contribute as little as possible to the running of our country and the protection of our people. The only thing happening with the defunding of the IRS would be wealthy tax skaters will continue to skate.

One day people understand that all of this political showmanship and sturm and drang are about fiscal policy and who is rewarded financially, and who suffers. The ultra wealthy know this. The rest of us think it’s about culture wars, apparently. It is not and never was about the culture wars for the donor class.