Repugnantcan "hopes" for the future

I hear conservatives saying that Obama ignored the Constitution during the shutdown and debt ceiling crisis.  And I almost don't know what to say to that.  What Constitution are they reading?  Are they really so ignorant about it, and about how our government works?  And does their copy not include the section about questioning the debt of the United States?  Do they not realize that is exactly what they tried to do (and, in fact, did, though thankfully they didn't do as much damage as they might have)?

Do they not realize that defaulting in the name of not raising the debt ceiling would have actually added to the national debt?  Apparently their motto is "we have to destroy the economy in order to save it."  Some of them clearly think that Obamacare will damage the economy so much that they have to damage the economy first in order to avoid that.  They're stupid, possibly crazy, and clearly ignorant.

One would hope that they weren't going to hurt the economy on purpose, that they were not aware of the possible effects.  In fact, they are very aware that they were damaging the U.S. economy.  And they are okay with that.  Several representatives have said exactly that.  And while to most people that seems like insanity, and to me it is un-American, the TP types believe they are doing the best thing for the country.

I think that is because they have a desire for an apocalype, as many millenialists do.  You know, the ones who say "yes, bring on the end of the world, bring on Armageddon!"  They WANT it.  They can't wait for it.  I have heard people say, actually had them say to me, that they hope the economy goes downhill, that they think we need a "cleansing."  They WANT us to lose millions of dollars.  And really, they want millions of people to die, to get back to whatever utopian version of the past they are imagining.  They are fanatics, religious and political fanatics.  They are absolutely certain they are right (basing this certainty on next to no actual facts, just their beliefs, regardless of reality.)

That sort of certainty, and that lack of interest in the desires, the lives, of others, is scary to me.  They are willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want.  Destroy the economy?  Okay.  Let others starve, or die?  Okay.  They are sociopaths.  They can't be reasoned with.

Only some conservatives think this way, of course, and as I've said before the smart ones need to kick the silly ones out of the party.  But they won't; they'll kowtow to them, and (if we're lucky) end up destroying the Republican party.