Scum America

The Factors Series Nos. 1-6, Complete

By: Scott McMurrey

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 1 hr and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

The Republican Party and its Scum American base have risen to a despicable highpoint. Donald Trump—the living expression of everything base, vile, ignorant, and mean-spirited in the American undergrowth—has destroyed nearly everything he’s touched.

Our politics are more divided than at any time since the civil war. Arrogant ignorance has infected every cell of our society. Anti-social, neo-confederate racism and fanatical libertarianism are running rampant when we most need solidarity and shared sacrifice.

This is all the fault of Scum America and its political haven, the Republican Party.

The Scum America Factors Series lays out the fundamental factors that make Republicans and Scum Americans wrong about everything, utterly determined to stand in the way of all progress, and wildly hostile toward everything good and decent.

With the advent of the coronavirus, Republican politics is killing people much more than usual.

It is important to note that this is not a chance event. The failings of Republicans are always at work making life worse. You can’t be clueless about science and planning and logic if you expect to lead a decent life. The current crisis is just throwing into high relief what Republicans are always doing in our society. 

They are always making life worse because of their ignorance and because of the ideological prejudices that arise from their ignorance. Most of the time, however, the damage they do is tolerated by society because it doesn’t affect everyone or because many people are convinced that it doesn’t affect them. Championing policies that increase wealth inequality, doing everything they can to suppress voting, targeting immigrants—all of these truly evil policies are always harming society as a whole. But so long as people are bamboozled into thinking that they are not being harmed or into thinking that only others are being harmed, they let it go.

But the stupid, bumbling, ego-driven, childish response of Trump and his Republican supporters in the face of the coronavirus crisis reveals what passes below the radar most of the time: Republicans cannot govern well because their constant failings constantly produce bad results. It’s just that now Republican failings are killing many more people in a more widespread fashion than they usually do.

Since the times are damning Republicans by highlighting their failings, now is precisely the right time to talk politics. Now is precisely the right time to get clear on the reasons why Republicans always mess things up. Now is precisely the right time to see, once and for all, that Republicans are intellectually, morally, and temperamentally unfit to be in positions of governmental authority.

The sooner we can get clear on that, the sooner we can replace Republicans with decent Americans who won’t screw things up as much because they aren’t as entirely screwed up. We may not be able to do that in time to stop Trump and his Republican lickspittles from killing hundreds of thousands with their criminal stupidity. But we are going to need real leaders in order to clean up the mess—and Republicans cannot be real leaders. 

The purpose of releasing the complete Scum America Factors series at this time is to make it as clear as possible why Republicans and Scum Americans are utterly unfit to take part in governance. Each chapter of this complete series discusses one fatal flaw in Scum American character. The series as a whole shows how stupidity, arrested adolescence, fearfulness, aggressiveness, faux Christianity, and mindless traditionalism inevitably make Republicans incapable of acting for the public good.

Read this compilation and then vote as if your life depends on removing all Republicans everywhere from public office.

Because it does.