The Beginning of The End of The GOP: Sarasota, Florida
Death at the hands of a cult.
It’s amazing what’s happened to the Republican Party that I grew up in, my family being stanch Republicans since the civil war. They stood with Lincoln and Roosevelt, fighting traitors and corruption, and stood with Eisenhower against the Nazis. The party started changing with Nixon, who made lying and cheating accepted, the ends justifying the means. It has become a fully criminal enterprise, taken over by frauds and grifters like Rick Scott and Donald Trump. “Unfettered Capitalists”, in the words of Pope Francis, hijacked the party several decades ago and suckered many Republicans into supporting their “Tea Party”, pretending to be patriots, leading them to form a cult that bought into lies and treason, hook line and sinker.
It’s no coincidence that Sarasota has become the center of the cult, with local politicians like Joe Gruters helping frauds like Rick Scott, CEO of the largest Medicare fraud in history, and Donald Trump (mastermind of huge scams like Trump University and the Trump Network) elected to the most important political positions in the country. Now we have notorious criminals like Michael Flynn and infamous conmen settled in Sarasota, hooking innocent retired Republicans into their web of treason and crime with sophisticated propaganda spreading the most outrageous lies and conspiracies imaginable.
I hope it is the beginning of the end for these traitors and criminals, as people start waking up to the fraud that’s been perpetrated. It’s amazing to me that so many continued to support them after the depth of their treason and crime started to become evident when Trump sided with Putin and Russia against our own armed forces intelligence and leaders. Amazingly, many continued even after the destruction of our public health infrastructure, intentionally spreading a lethal disease that killed thousands of Americans who would be alive today if not for the sabotage. Even more amazing, many continued to support the party when MAGA became the most powerful force in the party, executing an insurrection and attempted coup 1/6/21.
This election in 2022 may be the turning point where patriotic Republicans finally wake up to the fact that their party has become a lying, cheating, murderous criminal organization. This election and the votes did not go the way they planned.
How more obvious can it be that the old Republican Party is no more when a pardoned felon traitor like Michael Flynn and a cabal of treasonous propagandists like Steve Bannon and other QAnon criminals lay claim to its leadership?
I hope this is the beginning of the end for the Republican Party. My family and my community deserve better.
Click here for the PBS Frontline special that documents Flynn’s Holy War to take over the GOP from Sarasota. It’s not my family’s GOP.
Click here to read how Sarasota has become headquarters for the leaders of the MAGA cult.
William Anderson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, the author of “The Anderson Method of Permanent Weight Loss” (paperback and Kindle at Amazon, audiobook at Audible). He was obese until his early thirties when he found the solution. He lost 140 pounds, has kept it off for over 35 years. and has taught thousands to successfully manage their weight as one of his specialties in his psychotherapy practice. Now semi-retired, he has turned his attention to social activism as well as mental health activism, promoting the health and well-being of the community as well as the individual, body, mind and spirit.