Moment of Truth

Many of us have been looking forward to this election moment knowing that it is essentially the 'last exit before the toll', the toll being the re-election of Donald Trump as President.  If he is re-elected, I am convinced that we will see the end of democracy as we know it in America.  In fact, our condition is so precarious right now that even if Trump is defeated this coming week we will teeter on the edge of chaos until inauguration day.  Beyond that, only if Democrats can secure a majority in the Senate and hold the House, will our democracy have a prayer for continued existence.  Alternatively, if Trump wins and Republicans maintain control of the Senate we can expect a much more fraught four years going forward, after which America will not be recognizable as we remember it. 

It is a sad reality that our country is the victim of pre-meditated usurpation of majority rule by a Republican party only concerned with retaining power at the expense of any moral compass.  To witness the complicity and hypocrisy of the current Republican party as our Constitution has been shredded by this administration is to see the presence of moral rot on the part of the people who were stupid enough to elect them.  The current Republican Party has stood there--- mute ---as our system of law was corrupted by the Trump administration while they all ignored their oaths of office.  Consider that all the literally hundreds of lawsuits currently being filed to suppress the vote, are being forced by Republicans in state legislatures, PACS, and other support groups.  The Republicans simply can't win by allowing everyone to vote.  What does that tell you about the Republican party?  They simply don't believe in democracy and the sacred right of everyone to vote!

 

Our court system has been systematically stacked by a Republican Senate that has been on a

mission to deny judge confirmations by Democratic administrations and jam an endless procession of arch conservative judges into the court system since 2016, culminating in the hypocrisy of sending Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court last week.  Our court system and most especially the Supreme Court is now wildly out of step with the wishes and desires of a clear majority of Americans.  Once decisions against the ACA and Roe v. Wade are effectuated, there will be a huge movement to change the judicial system, and if the Senate is in control of the Democrats there will be significant change over the howling of the remaining Republicans in the Congress...too bad!

 

Trump is only part of the disease afflicting America.  The people who are part of his cult do not appear to have any beliefs other than those of the cult leader.  They ignore blatant facts about his performance leading us through the pandemic; they ignore the science of virus transmission and the simple facts of increasing numbers of Covid cases and the acceleration of hospital admissions.  There is no 'opinion' here, only the stats which are frightening.  When you add to that the constant lies being told by Trump at every one of his 'super spreader rallies', it is no surprise that we are on the cusp of disintegration.

 

An additional 4 years of what we have had since 2016 will see further isolation of America from the rest of the world; continued rejection of life preserving environmental regulation; disintegration of the rule of law at the hands of a corrupted Justice Department; and the rise of a level of corruption that will destroy any remnant of democratic ideals enshrined in the  founding documents of this republic.  The rise of authoritarianism, the destruction of the free press, the pursuit of political enemies will be the symptoms of the destruction of our system.

So, the issue for all of us who still retain our hope that our constitutional republic will survive must use this moment to encourage all of our friends and family to vote.  Unless we can mobilize all those people of good will and intelligence to make their voices heard, we will be bequeathing a very nasty future for our children and grandchildren.  What thousands have sacrificed with blood to protect over the past 240 years will quickly evaporate in a cloud of lies, deceit and tragedy.

 

I choose to believe in the strength of the majority, and to be clear, a majority of Americans believe as I do.  It is simply a matter of honoring that majority and encouraging it to make its voice heard.  It is our moment of truth.