Anyone who pretends politics isn't personal is either a fool or crooked as the day is long. Of course it's personal. You cannot deflect culpability and responsibility by pretending you're operating on some higher Platonic plane or playing an abstract intellectual team sport without real consequences.
I don't care if Lindsey Graham was a nice man or nice to his sister or a good tipper at restaurants. I don't care if he was an excellent golfer. I don't care if he correctly supported Ukraine. I care that he was a racist bigot who worked his entire life to make my country worse. He fought to keep Americans from having universal healthcare like civilized countries have. He fought to remove women's rights over their own bodies. Whether he was queer or not, as has often been rumored, would be absolutely irrelevant except that he also fought against LGBTQ rights loudly and vociferously. If he was in the closet, then he wanted other gay people in the basement under the foundation slab. Damn him for that, if nothing else.
And maybe he was just performing the will of his constituents - I suppose it's entirely possible that the people of South Carolina are really just that stupid and vicious, like junkyard dogs that someone taught to snort fentanyl and spray piss on their meat and call it BBQ sauce. Certainly he was very popular there, if the voting record is any indication. Maybe South Carolinans adored a spineless unprincipled gutless weathercock who not only failed to stand up to someone he himself knew and said was nothing but a schoolyard bully, but polished the bully's wingtips with his forked tongue and held his victims down for him.
But the entire point of a representative democracy is that we are meant to elect people who are the wisest, best version of our collective soul; people who do the right thing even when it's unpopular. By that token, Lindsey Graham was an abject failure as a politician and as a human being.
The gerontocrats who run America now are always insisting that their great value to their respective teams are their decades of experience in the business of governance. If that's really true, then the greatest gift Lindsey Graham ever gave the American people was keeling over right when his Scut Farkis overlord is at his most unhinged and unpopular. We no longer have Lady G to be our Dipshit Whisperer for us, to try to turn the old pig's senile psychotic doomposting into something his party can even pretend displays any hint of leadership or concern for anything but himself.
I can't return to America because there is no affordable healthcare in my own country: Lindsey Graham enthusiastically helped make that our reality. He lobbied against my queer friends' right to not only marry but even exist in public. And as for carrying on the foul racist legacy of his mentor, Strom Thurmond, I'll just quote the Guardian's obituary of Graham, published today:
"When Israel was accused of genocide, Graham, on a conference call in 2024 with the international criminal court prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan, told him: 'This court is for Africa.'"
So yes, I think it's a good thing that he's dead and no, I don't believe he deserves more respect in death than he ever showed me or millions of other Americans in life. I don't care if he lived and died without ever knowing I existed: he had the arrogance to think he had the right to dictate the course of my life to me and every American, most of whom didn't live in the misbegotten place that kept electing him.
Lindsay Graham was a coward and a bigot and a destructive force and a horrible cunt and the world is a far better place already, now that he's not in it. If the rest of the mudsoaked pigs and Nazi vultures in his cohort really admired him so much, they'd follow his lead now, same as they have everywhere else.
And if there were any justice in this universe, at least Lindsay would be doing us all the favor of burning down in Hell long after the rest of us extinguished the inferno he and his bastard brethren have made of America.
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