Sore Losers!

In my last post, I tried to assume the posture of reconciliation.  I wanted to look forward to unifying our country and bringing some calm to the frenzy of vitriol being hurled from the Republican electorate.  Instead, it appears that the best we are going to do is to get spit in the face by those who seemingly are willing to reject democracy and embrace fascism.

 

Facts don't matter to these Republicans.  This election was decisive.  The margin of victory eclipses that of Trump in 2016, who heralded his claimed mandate.  Biden will have the same amount of electoral votes and double the popular vote margin, yet the Trumpists (including virtually all the Republican legislators in Congress) cry foul, cry fraud, cry rigged, and would rather coddle this poor excuse for a human and let him 'get used' to the fact that he lost.  One has to ask what they are afraid of.  To choose supporting a demagogue over their oath to the Constitution is revealing and horrifying at the same time.

 

So , what is the end game for these people?  The general public are ingesting the disinformation and lapping it up without any regard to reality.  And the politicians?....Are they so afraid of Trump that they are cowed into submission because of their belief in his position or because they are simply afraid he will

still be the power behind the Republican party and will somehow spoil their chances for re-election?  On a more tactical level, they probably are positioning to affect the upcoming runoff in Georgia for what will be control of the Senate.  Certainly, that is why McConnell is bending the knee.  They want to keep egging on the lemmings so they get a massive turnout from their base in Georgia.  It is so incredibly disgraceful that almost to a man none of these awful people have congratulated the new President-Elect and Vice President-Elect out of fear of pissing off their Trumpian base and their 5-Year Old-in-Chief.

 

With Trump's firing of people in the Pentagon and replacement with 'loyalists', and the gross and anti-democratic statement by Mike Pompeo the other day, one has to wonder if there is another plan afoot.  Does it occur to anyone that they might be planning to try to effect a coup to stay in power?  As much as all the pundits say that could never happen, there is real fear on the part of people like former Admiral Barry McCaffery that this kind of maneuvering is a prelude to coup d'etat.  It is sickeningly similar to efforts in foreign countries with autocratic governments to invalidate elections by claiming fraud and then simply seizing power 'in the interests of fair elections'.  That's pretty scary folks!

 

In the meantime, we the people are suffering from an out of control pandemic and the completely unreasonable stalling of the transition between administrations.  The result is that the rest of the world is laughing at us, and our enemies are gleeful at our inaction and chaos, which only serves to offer them opportunities to create more chaos and disunity in our country.

 

I am so sad for our America.  And I am angry at the man who has fomented all this chaos.  I thought I could be forgiving and empathic about the loss Trump's supporters are feeling.....but I can't when they all apparently reject the concept of democracy.  The only thing to do is to somehow eliminate the source of their idolatry.  Therefore, it is imperative that when Trump leaves office, if he ever does, the US legal system needs to prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law possible for as many of his crimes as possible.  The only thing Trump deserves is a cell in prison, and I encourage the New York Attorney General and state and national prosecutors to throw the book at this miscreant.  Put him away so he can't run again and can't foment again.  Let him try to mobilize his base from prison....Nelson Mandella he is NOT!

 

In addition, the Democratic Party needs to plan and execute an overwhelming electoral effort on Georgia voters to elect the Democrats in the upcoming runoff on Jan. 5 to the Senate.  Frankly, if they don't do that, the Senate will still be in control of the Republicans and Biden and the majority of the country will still be under the thumb of Mitch McConnell and his anti-democratic cabal.  Do what is necessary to overwhelmingly defeat Perdue and Loeffler, who are criminals anyway. Wipe them out!

 

As far as the rest of his followers, most specifically Trump's GOP legislators who pledge allegiance to him

rather than democracy and our Constitution, exile or elimination in any way possible should be our goal.  Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell are traitors--they deserve a traitor's reward.

 

A majority of America voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.  Majority rules.