So, you've been a Republican for all of your adult life, grew-up in a GOP family, always felt that the Dems are inferior because they just want to tax the rich and spend it all on the poor. Okay, that is a slight exaggeration, but it actually does reflect how many Americans feel at this point.
But, here you are: your beloved Idiot managed to lose an election by being so clearly incompetent and dishonest, failing to deal with the pandemic and on and on..... Trump is a bust. What now?
Well, unless something changes, it appears that the GOP could be in a situation where it has set itself up to lose elections for the foreseeable future. Why? For starters, Americans of color, and women, and immigrants....and, well, you name the category, have become a rising force to be reckoned with. It was a coalition of all these societal groupings that managed to overwhelm the Idiot's red-meat and other base. He got over 70 million votes, but this amazing agglomeration of Americans ran him out of office with over EIGHTY MILLION votes.
Suffice it to say that only people who are fearful of the changes in the American demographic, i.e. white people, can now see a future in which they are not only no longer the dominant segment of the population, but in which they fade to relative impotence. If what they call the 'brown wave' continues to swell and mound-up offshore...there will be no more 'white supremacy' in America. We will complete the shift away from our four centuries of white racial dominance....toward a truly diverse culture in which skin-color, gender, gender preference, ethnicity, religious affiliation all take a back-seat to the recognition that equality, fairness, security should be a reality for ALL AMERICANS, including those who have just arrived.
The GOP of today is nothing like the one my parents and their WWII generation mates cleaved to in large numbers. It has become not merely racist, but a force for white supremacy. If you look at the line-up it is telling. There is Stephen Miller....a bitter and ruthless racist beyond any doubt, and, Sebastian Gorka...a good candidate for Nazi of the year. Then you have Ted Cruz, professional sleaze merchant and liar, Matt Gaetz, diving down the sewer of life, Lauren, the ding-dong, Bobert from Colorado, and her counterpart in truly 'dumb as a post' idiocy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, from Georgia, and on and on the list goes. The worst offender of all is almost certainly Mitch McConnell.....a truly odious man who makes no bones about the fact that Republicans will do any damn thing at all to stay in control of the levers of power in America. All of these people are so focused on keeping white people on top of our society, in control and advantaged, that they are willing, even eager, to toss aside the idea of Democracy...i.e. government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
If it means surrendering control of who gets the advantages and who gets stung...they are happy to do whatever it takes to prevent that. This means that they will willingly lie, cheat and steal in order to accomplish the singular goal of stopping the 'brown wave'. And, this facile slide into amorality is being aided along by the willingness to make sure no fair elections can be had, especially in states where the GOPs have had control for generations, and in the so-called 'swing states' that have an outsized impact on our national elections. Seeing Georgia go 'blue' was a severe shock for these people. It was a kind of wake-up call to GOPs across the nation that they really need to do absolutely everything possible to make it more difficult for people in heavily black, Hispanic and impoverished districts to vote.
The voter suppression law passed in Georgia, get this, even makes it a criminal offence to give bottled water or snacks to people who are waiting in line to vote. Are you shitting me? Could these assholes be any more obvious that what they are doing is intended to discourage people from voting? There is an endless list of strategies that are being employed across the country....over 315 bills proposed or passed already. Gerrymandering is still a part of the plan, has been for generations.
So, unless those of us who feel that American democracy is truly in danger of becoming extinct, get as involved and as vociferous about this as possible....we will find ourselves watching as the GOP racists, misogynists, and despicables in general...steal elections all across the land. It will be THE END OF DEMOCRACY....replaced by the McConnell vision of a country where the good ol' white boys call all the shots and the 'little people' take it in the ear.
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