Farewell Democracy

Adam Schiff was right.  In his summation and plea for the impeachment of Donald Trump, he pleaded with Republican senators, “He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again. He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is.”

It seems there is ample truth that Schiff was prophetic.

 

What we are witnessing and living through is simply the attempted destruction of our democratic republic.  Yesterday Trump set the stage for his attempt to invalidate our election by intimating that we should postpone the national balloting.  Through all sorts of national crises, we have never postponed an election.  Never in the history of the United States has a President sowed such doubt about the outcome of an election he is clearly in danger of losing.  He will have to blame someone, so of course it’s the election that is at fault.  That is his modus operandi.  Always blame someone or something else for his mistakes and his victimization.

 

He implicitly threatened to foul the electoral results with litigation which he claimed could take years.  He is sowing doubt about the bedrock principle that is the foundation of our democracy—the peaceful transfer of power by citizens at the ballot box.  He sees his defeat at hand and will do anything to invalidate the results if he loses.  This is the man who the Republicans support.

Well, actually, the Republicans in Congress shut him down on his threat to postpone the election, something he has no power to do anyway.  Only Congress could do that, and you can be sure they won’t. 

 

On the other hand, that will not stop Trump’s attempt to corrupt the process.  He has been laying the groundwork by repeatedly decrying the process of mail-in-balloting.  He is fearmongering us by his attempt to scare us with overwhelming fraud---only he supplies no proof that fraudulent absentee balloting has ever occurred.  His lackeys have taken up the mantra—Bill Barr, a variety of Republican senators, his White House aides are all parroting his unsubstantiated claims.  He will go as far as defunding the Post Office to prevent mail-in balloting, so expect that soon.

 

I am constantly amazed at the support from intelligent people that somehow Trump engenders.  What appear to be smart Republican businessmen and local notables are campaigning for Congress here in SW Florida, and the primary qualification they tout is their support of Donald Trump and his policies.  They are apparently blind to the pandemic disaster that he has created, the completely obliterated economy as a result of his failure to develop a plan to combat the wildfire epidemic we are suffering through, and his constant spewing of misinformation to the public about the spread Covid-19.

 

Folks, we are living in a nation of imbeciles.  A huge percentage of our fellow citizens are just plain stupid!  Maybe the answer is to partition off a part of the US and let Trump and all of his supporters just move there and figure out how to survive living by their own warped standards.  They can all walk around without masks, fire their guns in the air or at each other at will, and eventually die off. And of course, they can take their doctor Stella Immanuel and all her colleagues who can start a new medical discipline based on curing ailments with alien DNA and preventing disease by convincing their citizens not to have sex with demons in their dreams.