Garfield The Butcher

"*It is written in every handwriting style, it is said in every language, it is typed in every font, it was whispered, screamed, and shouted in public and private. Garfield Webster strongly took offense to the infamous name because as a Catholic, he took offense of being accused of rebelling against his god.*"
—Charles Basilica, April 18, 1916
The term, **Garfield The Butcher**, was the infamous but popular nickname for Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster as part of the widespread public anger over the loss of Chawosaurian civilians in Europe to the warzones of World War I, which Prime Minister Webster was widely held responsible for due to the fact that he was Prime Minister.

Webster took offense to this name because the idea of him being seen as a murder was the same as being seen as a rebel against God and his Catholic faith, and Webster hated that nickname as a result of this mentality. Webster's views on death were extremely hostile, and the nickname itself was affective in declining Webster's mental health as the Interwar period progresses its prelude.

Webster went mentally insane in 1918, and despite his recovery in 1919, and eventually his retirement from the premiership against his will, he was still revered as Garfield the Butcher even beyond his death until the 1970s, but as a result of the political activism of the 2010s and eventually the George Floyd protests in the 2020s, the term Garfield The Butcher returned to popular use among Anti-Websterians (most of whom are conservatives).

## Etymology

Garfield Webster becomes the 3rd person in Chawosaurian history to take over as Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria on January 1, 1910, to replace the bitterly unpopular Prime Minister Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson, who unlike Webster, Wilson's legacy has never truly recovered. Garfield Webster went on to become the most liberal Prime Minister in Chawosaurian history, going too far as to expand the political influence of labor unions, thus effectively giving working people more representation in politics, and pass a solid progressive agenda which includes conservation of land, a living wage, free education to all regardless of socio-economic class, and free healthcare also regardless of socio-economic class. Webster's first 4-years as Prime Minister was a peaceful and luxurious time, he becomes widely popular, especially among the working-class and lower-class people.

But that four-year prosperity collapsed when the Great War (now World War I) broke out in 1914 due to geopolitical tensions in Europe and the assassination of an Austrian prince. Webster never thought a global war would happen under his watch, and it was unfortunate that he was gonna be the one who will lead Chawosauria through a global war. As the war progresses, and as more countries join the allies, military and civilian causalities started to build up, also among Chawosaurians who lived in Europe.

Webster was warned that a global war could be coming in the early 1910s, but Webster ignored the signs of a world war, Webster was born in Europe and lived there till he was a young adult, so he experienced the wars between European superpowers that had been going on since the fall of the Roman Empire. Webster was warned that evacuations might need to happen as signs of a world war were popping up, and Webster downplayed the signs and decided that evacuations weren't necessary, something Webster later regretted during his near-death years in the 1950s.

Euro-Chawosaurians were being killed daily in the War in Europe, and the rest of the Chawosaurian public was getting weary over these deaths, and fingers of blame were pointing at Webster because he was seen as the only logical, mentally-stable person in charge while Emperor Santiago was widely seen as an idiot.

Webster became a bitterly unpopular Prime Minister as a result of building civilian losses to the war in Europe because Webster was the incumbent Prime Minister at the time, and thus, **Garfield The Butcher** was born.

## Spread and Usage

Anti-Websterianism expanded wildly as part of Webster's loss of popularity, right-wingers were never on board with Webster from the very beginning, but rising left-wing discontent with Webster started as a response to the civilian deaths in Europe.

Garfield The Butcher became a slogan for the Conservatives against Webster, and some leftists who didn't trust Webster. It gained some popularity among moderates. The name appeared in newspapers, magazines, and many other media outlets, and it resonated with a grieving nation who are losing family members to the war, whether on combat or as civilians in a war-sieged city.

## Impact on Webster's Mental Health

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This name will set the breaks on Webster's mental decline seen in 1918. Webster being born to a consanguine marriage between second cousins genetically impacted his mental health in terms of emotional reaction to certain things, events, and etc. When Webster is driven to stress, he becomes irrationally insane and engages in abnormal behavior that involves self-harm, harm and death to others, and a lack of awareness of his actions while engaging in strange and/or dangerous behavior. When Webster recovers from insanity, he barely remembers his deeds.

Webster was very violent when stress gets to him, and he was capable of unintentionally killing someone without any awareness, and people would not tell Webster that he killed someone because Webster is known to have attempted suicides when murdering certain animals. Webster murdered pigs but barely had any regret, but when Webster was a boy going on a hunting trip to Canada, he shot a spotless fawn, mistaken it to be a chevrotain, and Webster felt utter remorse that he tried to hang himself under a branch of an oak tree. The attempted suicide failed as the rope ripped off after he jumped off the branch.

In 1918, Webster lost his sanity, he becomes schizophrenic, consuming his own blood, self-destructive, etc. Webster recovered in 1919, and his contraction with the Spanish flu forced him to retire from the premiership the day his term expired.

## Usage History Since 1919

### **Usage after Webster's departure**

*Garfield The Butcher* was used widely, but when anti-Websterian leftists formed the Chawallian Communist Party in 1936, and eventually took power following the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the communists exploited the Webstermania system to take power and stay in power, which would eventually lead to the slaughter of those who the communists viewed as undesirable or their political enemies, giving the *Garfield The Butcher* name relevance.

### **Usage by Left-Wingers**

Pointing to the civilian losses suffered by Chawosauria to WWI, Anti-Webster leftists frequently use the term in criticism of Garfield Webster. The term was used by anti-racist and other social justice leftists, saying Webster has encouraged the killing of many non-white communities. Webster was accused of being a warmonger by many anarchists, communists, hardline socialists, and the rest of the far-left spectrum.

### **Usage by Right-Wingers**

Right-wingers universally despise Webster for his progressive policies such as environmental protection, Webster's favoritism towards labor unions over big business, and Webster encouraging workers to rebel against big bosses and take power for themselves.

Conservatives and Libertarians point to Webster's labor union regime as a factor of communist party control of Chawosauria, the communist dictatorships of Timothy Max Roosevelt and Shang Jong Parker, and a large, massive, big, all hands on deck government that controls the means of production of the entire Chawosaurian realm.

### **Usage after Webster's death**

Even in death, Garfield Webster is still referred by critics as *Garfield The Butcher*.

## Analysis and Legacy

The term *Garfield The Butcher* surely had an impact, Webster's dark legacy has not become a relevant discussion until the George Floyd protests, which an uprising against institutional racism escalated following the killing of George Floyd. Webster's complicated record on race relations became a matter of controversy, Webster refused to enroll Black Chawosaurians to his boarding school system due to skepticism that black people would become literate, but Webster later changed his mind following the Red Summer race riots of 1919 took place in the United States.

Webster's white supremacist attitudes towards people from India has become a subject of controversy following the 2020 uprising against systemic racism, as well as his racist attitudes towards Indigenous peoples, etc.

The origin of the term *Garfield The Butcher* was out of grief but became a politicizable term.