Rats are more empathetic than Republicans

When a rat hears another rat in distress, that rat will immediately go to help the rat in distress. Furthermore, if they had a chocolate treat, they’d share that treat with the rat that they helped.

So what happens when a Republican sees someone in distress? Well, the first thing they do is ignore the person in distress. Next, if they’re feeling particularly generous, they might install a switch to allow the person in distress to escape his trap — a switch which is *outside* the trap, which the person caught in the trap can’t reach (e.g., offering mental health services to the mentally ill… out of reach of the person *inside* the trap of mental illness).

But that’s the end of any empathy. Past that point, it’s “get a job, bum!” or “it’s your own fault you got caught in a trap, don’t whine to me for help!” and a shrug of the shoulder and move on. And if the cries of distress on the part of those caught in the trap become too disturbing, they dispatch the popo to beat the shit out of those in distress in order to shut up that annoying whining from people who are dying. Because as far as lizard people from planet Sociopath are concerned, human beings are just another kind of vermin, and if vermin makes untoward noise, well. Beat it until it’s no longer capable of making noise, right?

Sad, isn’t it, that rats are more empathetic than a large percentage of Americans?

This post appears courtesy of Badtux the Snarky Penguin.