Most of us who have been working on the left side of politics have known the true feelings of conservatives for many, many years.

–A woman’s body is not hers to govern.

–The poor just need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

–If the sick had led better lives, they wouldn’t be in the situation that they’re in.

–The unemployed just need to get off the couch and find a job.

–The environment will take care of itself, because God.

–Making money is more important than clean water.

So why are they now so comfortable exposing themselves? These people aren’t stupid, and they’re not short-sighted, either.

They know they have cover right now. Do you really think they’re concerned that they’re going to lose in 2018?

For all who thought last year’s election, even 48 hours prior, was a slam dunk, (because who in their right mind would vote for a degenerate, we thought), we are now in that same mindset again. It’s not so much that we can’t get out the vote in 2018. That certainly seems like a clear path to making this horrible nightmare go away.

It’s all the other things that Republicans are doing, right now, while we are distracted with all sorts of covfefe that will ultimately seal their deal for who knows how many decades into the future.

–Voter suppression in the form of shortened voting hours, the elimination of early voting, ID cards, and voter roll purges.

–Gerrymandering on a scale that we have never seen before that will make, has already made, it impossible for Democrats to be elected.

–Issues with actual balloting and vote processing. Seriously, if Russians can hack our systems, don’t you think the data in voting machines would be the first place they’d go?

So, yes, it’s important to get the vote out. It’s important to enthuse and inspire angry people to do whatever they have to do to get to their polling place next year. But it will all be for naught if we don’t pay attention to what is really going on here.

All you have to do is ask yourself why, after all these years when they’ve kept their private thoughts to themselves, they feel so comfortable laughing and joking in a Rose Garden while taking away healthcare from their fellow citizens.

–Ask yourself why 22 congressman felt comfortable enough to publicly urge the president to withdraw from the Paris agreement.

–Ask yourself why they are comfortable not speaking out about the heinous racist crimes that are going on in our country right now.

–Ask yourselves why they don’t mind being the laughing stock of the whole world.

This is not rocket science. This is about the fact that they believe they have the cover to expose themselves because they understand quite clearly they will be reelected and their agenda will continue.