Can We Make It to the 20th?

The Washington Post reports today that of the 249 Republican members of Congress, only 26 of them (about 10%) are willing to acknowledge Joe Biden's victory in the national election.  That is after both AG Barr and Chris Krebs, former director of CISA, have affirmed that there is no evidence of any kind of massive fraud or rigging of the election.  That is astonishing and saddening.

What that really means is that 223 Republicans--elected by we the people-- in the United States Congress, who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, have chosen not to stand up for democracy.  They have, in fact, conspired in an effort to undermine our democracy.  They have stood mute as our most sacred institution--the right to vote-- has been attacked in an unfounded campaign against the democratic outcome of an election by the current President of the United States.  Trump is trying to leverage the power of the presidency to subvert the vote and overturn the election results.   History will not look fondly on any of them!

God help us, he cannot disappear soon enough from the scene.  Because as we wait patiently for

Inauguration Day to finally be rid of him, he is doing everything he can possibly do to trash as much of the important government functions as he can.  He simply doesn't care about our country any more.  If he did, he wouldn't purposefully replace experienced Defense Department employees with inexperienced lackeys who suddenly have control over our country's secret espionage activities and covert military actions.  And why are the new Trump installed leadership people in the Defense Department refusing to meet with Biden's transition team to get up to speed on critical national security issues?   And why is he trying to make thousands of Civil Service employees suddenly vulnerable to being fired at a whim?  Or why is he doing nothing to advance desperately needed plans to control the pandemic and distribute the vaccines that will shortly be available?   

 

It seems that his mission now is to destroy as much of our government as possible and sew as much discord and doubt about our democracy as possible.  It is clear that he is spitting on the concept of a peaceful transfer of power in our country, a tradition that sets an example for every democracy on earth and sets us apart from virtually all of the autocratic systems in the world.  Most of what he is doing is just spite....he is just spiteful.

 

It feels so helpless to be seeing all this stuff happening and not having the ability to stop it.  We are prisoners in our own country to a despot who doesn't care a whit about what our country really stands for.  The reality of his claims of voter fraud and rigged elections is a myth.   And yet he keeps promulgating the lies and revs up his lemming-like supporters to believe the myth.  All the while his actions seem designed to literally pull the dollars out of his unsuspecting supporter's pockets into his "Leadership PAC" to the tune of over $250 Million.... to do what with?  A small amount goes to his 'defense fund' and the rest goes literally into his pocket!  What a scam.  Is he stupid enough, even after all his failed legal efforts, to believe the election was rigged, or is it that he knows it's a lie but doesn't care?  Maybe both!  The biggest surprise is the belief held by so many Americans that the election was 'stolen' somehow--without any real evidence!  It is mind boggling.  They all seem to be SO sure!  Where are their brains?

 

Let's all visualize the image of pages of a calendar riffling off the top of the pile in a gentle wind,  like we used to see in the movies when they wanted us to imagine the passage of time.  At the end of the day apparently all we can do is hold our breath until January 20th and pray that nothing irreparably destructive is done to our country by this mean spirited, unhinged, vindictive excuse for a human being.  It is a wonder we have survived his term thus far, and--well-- actually over 250,000 deceased victims of the pandemic haven't!