I am writing this at a little before noon on Wednesday, January 6th. At this very moment there are two events transpiring that will change the history of our country....one way or another.
The first of these is the run-off election in Georgia. The Democratic candidates are on a roll...at least, they may well be when the final tally is posted. Raphael Warnnock has won his contest against Kelly Loeffler; and that is HUGE. Meanwhile, Jon Ossoff is leading Perdue, pending a few thousand votes being counted that are coming from heavily democratic counties...meaning that Ossoff is very likely to win also.
Most Americans, if they are at all engaged in this season of political struggle, already know how vital this double race is. If it went towards just one of the GOPs, Loeffler or Perdue, the senate would remain in GOP control and Moscow Mitch would spend the next four years doing what he's been doing for decades...blocking any legislation put forward by the Democrats. He has had over 300 bills that he has simply left lying on his desk, vowing to make Obama a one-term president, and then putting up obstacles that for the most part Dems could not avoid in order to pass legislation.....ANY legislation. Moscow Mitch has been a human wrecking-ball in terms of the Democratic agenda. And, apparently, he takes great pride in knowing this is what he has accomplished. How much pain he has caused for low income working people....is more than balanced in his pathetic mind by how much he has benefited the very affluent.
So, if Ossoff does, as expected, pull it off, and Warnock has already...that means Dems would be able to make progress on an agenda of bills that Joe Biden has touted throughout the campaign season. His daunting task, initially at least, is to undo at least a significant part of the terrible damage that the Idiot has inflicted. For four years, the Idiot has been waging an all-out assault on decency. He has attacked the environment, never mind being a Climate Crisis denier, he is against anything that protects the natural world from the predations of big corporate America.
His idea is that we should be raping what is left of the natural world as hard and as fast as possible, animals, clean air, chemical pollution, water protection standards, regulations that protect workers from corporate bosses who are perfectly willing to put workers' lives at risk in order to increase their profits. All of this has been heavily under attack, and the results have been that the great majority of these have been seriously degraded. He would destroy all the safety nets for the working and unemployed poor; the 'little people' don't score very highly on the Idiot's list of priorities. He is incapable of caring about anybody but himself. Which is about what we'd expect from a person with his type and severity of mental illness.
And, then, this afternoon, there is a ceremonial counting of the electoral college votes, after which the election is further 'certified' and the final step in the transition is the actual inauguration on January 20th. Historically, this has been a purely ceremonial event. But, nothing in 2020 has been 'normal', of course, so neither will this be. The Idiot has yapped endlessly, spewing his false narrative that the election was 'stolen' from him. His incapacitated peanut-brain simply cannot embrace the idea that he is now a LOSER. And, that, naturally, is a label he absolutely cannot tolerate....but, it is also one which will now follow him to his grave. He will not only be remembered by history as a loser; he will be remembered as the fool who lost so badly...in terms of style and his complete failure to accept it....that it will be an historical footnote. He will be not-so-fondly remembered for generations to come as the president who was as mad as a March hare.
And, as if to further cement that reputation, he has demanded that his vice-president, in his ceremonial role as head of the senate, simply get up there and over-turn the election....something that Mike Pence has absolutely no power to do. He simply cannot do it; his role in this is specified by the constitution and it doesn't bestow any such dictatorial power to toss out the votes and decide for himself who will be the next president. Just the fact that the Idiot is asking--okay, DEMANDING--that he do this is a further indication of how very far out in the outback of Looney-land he is.
Meanwhile, out in the streets of our nation's capital.....the Idiot's equally looney followers are planning to smuggle their beloved guns into the firearms forbidden jurisdiction and start some trouble. The National Guard is waiting. It could get out of hand. These are the same lunatics who believe that Tom Hanks and Oprah are feasting on the carcasses of fresh babies...which they molested before draining their blood to make 'life extending' potions. Oh, yes....this is real. It sounds so insane that it seems a giant leap to the idea of accepting that this is a genuine conspiracy these fools have embraced. And, now the Idiot has inflammed and inspired these lunatics to hit the streets and the latest news reports are saying that they have rushed the capital and are causing such problems that Pence had to be spirited away by the Secret Service.
Oh, great. We have a pathological idiot doing everything in his power to disrupt and even DESTROY our democracy. Isn't that special! It's not exactly clear where all of this is headed...but, I can tell you one thing with absolute certainty: these mini-Idiots will NOT manage to get another term in the White House for the Idiot himself. It WILL NOT HAPPEN.
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| This man wants to be your leader....whether he wins another election OR NOT. He doesn't care at all if our country is a democracy. Believe it. |
It feels like we are tip-toeing across the edge of a giant scimitar. We have not come this close to our country being in dire straits in modern history. And, to just ice the cake....we're in the midst of a major pandemic that stands to kill MORE AMERICANS THAN WORLD WAR II did.
Taken as single events or situations, any of this could be daunting and de-stabilizing for even a very well-grounded adult. Taken as a cluster of things that are all rushing toward one....it can be just completely overwhelming.
So, let's take a breath. Watch where all of this is headed and know that we'll come out the other side with a functioning democracy.
I hope.
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