Matt Gaetz made to look a fool again!

General Mark Milley, the Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lambasted Republican Congressmen Matt Gaetz after the Florida Congressmen tried to corner one of Milley's colleagues during a recent House hearing.

Gaetz, who is currently being investigated for possible sex trafficking of a minor among other crimes, was trying to advance the right's culture war grievance when he hinted at the fact that the U.S. military was too "woke" as Gaetz called it, and suggested that the military was advancing "critical race theory."

Initially Gaetz reclaimed his time which prevented Milley from offering his thoughts, but then Milley was given an opening by a Democratic member of the House. Milley proceeded to deride Gaetz without mentioning him by name. You can see the whole interaction in the video below. 

This is what the Republican Party has been reduced to. The GOP, with limited exceptions, does not do the work of the American people and rarely offers suggestions for legislation to improve the lives of everyday citizens, but instead spends the bulk of its time complaining about NONSENSE.

One of the newer grievances of the GOP is this aforementioned critical race theory, which amounts to teaching children in school about slavery and the history of race in America. The big beef seems to be that it makes the everybody-gets-a-trophy crowd feel bad about being white. That's insane! 

The fact is that this country did have slaves, both North and South, and was one of the last countries on earth to abolish slavery, and it took a war that led to the deaths of 600,000 Americans to finally end this grotesque institution. If that makes white people feel bad? Oh well.

If the story ended there in 1865, one could say, maybe, it was a long time ago. However, that is not the case. Even after slaves and their descendants were free from shackles, they were OPPRESSED. FACT.

In the South they were second class citizens well into the 1960s and 1970s with segregation and living in terror of organizations like the KKK, but in the so-called "enlightened" North, people still made sure that blacks could not buy homes in the same neighborhoods as whites, get the same access to higher education, or banking opportunities to start business to name just a few. 

Blacks who excelled despite these institutional roadblocks, were in some cases attacked - see the Tulsa Race Riot. Not to mention the treatment of blacks at the hands of the police over the last fill-in-the blank years. 

Excuse me if Gaetz, a trust-fund baby, gets upset when someone tells the truth. He claims that by teaching the real history of race in America, that it is teaching our children to hate America. Again, Nonsense. Two things can be true at once. I love this imperfect country because of the principles that it was founded on that all men are created equal. And although, America has never quite lived up to that principle, we keep trying to get there. But I can also be disgusted by 100s of blacks being indiscriminately killed in Tulsa, or lynched in the South for no good reason, or for Bull Connor unleashing the firehoses and dogs on peaceful children in Birmingham, or four little girls being blown up at the 16th Street Baptist Church or for Emmett Till's senseless murder, among countless others.

Emmett Till's open casket

I can be proud of America for defeating Fascism and destroying the oppressive and murderous Nazi regime, but at the same time be disgusted that American citizens of Japanese ancestry had their property taken from them by the government indiscriminately and put in internment camps. 

I can be proud of the founders and the truly enlightened documents they wrote, and the lasting impact of said writings, but still be disappointed and angered by their relative disregard for the native peoples of America and their forced march to reservations all over the western United States, and the broken treaties that led to this inglorious history.

This is called being a student of our history. Not just the highlights, but all of our history. This is the point Milley was making when he says we need to be well read, and attempt, as best we can, to understand how our Asian American friends feel, or how our Latino American friends feel, or how our black and brown friends feel. That gives a better insight into the world we live in.

Milley explained that reading Mao Zedong's writing does not make him a communist, nor does reading Mein Kampf, make someone a Nazi. In fact, our failure to be well read and students of our own history as well as world history is what created an environment that made 1/3 of the country susceptible to a con artist like Donald Trump and his brown-shirt collaborators like Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton and Marjorie Taylor Idiot. In fact, the right counts on the fact that you will not learn about it or look it up on your own or do some critical thinking, because you would find out what Stuart Stevens discovered in the last 4 years, that it was "All A Lie."

So don't believe me. Don't take my word as gospel. Do the research yourself, and you too will find the truth. I know one thing for certain, you can not find the truth in a GOP congressional speech or anywhere on FOX News. Happy investigating!