History is replete with all manner of villains. We need not
name them, although anyone with any basic understanding of history could rattle
off a half dozen names without a second breath. But one villain in American
history comes to mind as I read about Ted Cruz announcing his run for the United
States presidency. Note, I did not refer to him by his title “Sen,” referred to
as an “honorific” in The Associated Press style. You see, Cruz deserves neither
the honor nor the respect the title of senator confers.
Cruz, as many of you will figure out in the future, is a
demagogue of the worst order. He is a liar, a purveyor of propaganda and
someone who in his best moments wants to destroy the American middle class and create
a huge poor underclass. Cruz is part of the evil, Robber Baron-like plutocracy
who hates the notion of the very government he want to be part of. And his very
voice conjures up the sound of one of the most evil and despicable men and
episodes in U.S. history, Joseph McCarthy, the late Republican senator from
Wisconsin.
Here, in the climactic moment of the Senate hearing that
showed McCarthy for the bully and evil man that he was, even the tone and
timbre of his voice sounds like Cruz.
Now, listen to the shorter piece from a recent CNN interview with Cruz.
I rest this part of my case, but there will be more.
