Mean Spirited Dishonest Pachyderms

It is hard to escape the conclusion that our country is in real jeopardy.  Yesterday all pretense evaporated as to the objectives of the Republican party.  It is clear that their motive in voting against the creation of a bipartisan commission to explore the causes and effects of the Capitol insurrection on January 6th totally rejects the welfare of our country and instead focuses only on the acquisition of power and their own aggrandizement at the expense of anything else.

 It is not brain surgery for the majority of our country to realize that the riots at the Capitol on January 6th were a direct result of the Big Lie promulgated for a year before the 2020 election by former President Trump.  The actual riot was encouraged incessantly by Trump and might even have been planned by members of Trump's coterie and those who zealously supported Trump's contention that the election was stolen from him, even though there is no evidence to support that contention.  Those facts undoubtedly would be revealed by a bipartisan commission charged with getting to the bottom of the real causes of the insurrection.  That is why the Republicans, and Mitch McConnell steadfastly opposed the creation of this commission.  And the really sad part of all this is that Republicans as a whole, with the exception of just a few patriots, have chosen the party and the cult instead of the integrity of the nation and its commitment to democracy.  McConnell is the quintessential example of the sleaziest of politicians caring nothing for the country and everything about his own power.

 

Given all that, the ongoing attempt to overthrow our democracy has not stopped...it has only gotten

more nefarious.  At Trump's encouragement, his minion's efforts in state legislatures in a majority of the country's state governments reveals efforts to restructure the election mechanism itself to give Republicans partisan power over the acceptance of the results of balloting.  How can that be fair and honest?  Imagine if Brad Raffensberger of Georgia was replaced by a Trump lackey.  If Trump had made the telephone call to such a person in search of 11,800 ballots last fall, do you think the result in Georgia would have been the same?  What if those kinds of appointments had been engineered in advance of the election in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona?  Do you think Joe Biden would now be President?  

 

Wake up everyone!  This is their strategy, and it just might work in 2024.  This is exactly what is happening in plain view in Georgia, Texas, and Michigan and as many as 44 state legislatures nationwide.  What do you think will happen in 2024 if these people are in charge of the election mechanism?  If they succeed, then the United States of America as we have known it will disappear.  It will be replaced by minority government.  Look at today's Senate:  theoretically the Democrats are in the power position, however the proposed bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection was killed by a vote of 35 to 54.  That is not what democracy and majority rule is all about.  That is what our future will be if this bloodless coup is allowed to continue.

 

Time is running out for naive buffoons like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to wake up to the reality that is clearly seen by the rest of the Democratic caucus.  Republicans led by McConnell and McCarthy are interested only in sabotaging any efforts to help the country being advanced by Democrats; obstructing any forward motion by the Biden administration; and pledging fealty to someone who will throw them under the bus as soon as they show any independence and integrity. 

It is time for Democrats to throw bipartisanship and caution to the wind.  Establish a select committee to dig deep into the causes of the insurrection and expose anyone who had a role in its planning and execution.  Eliminate the filibuster rule and enact as much legislation as possible using the slim majority the Democrats have to benefit the average citizens in the country who support current proposed legislation like S-1; the John Lewis bill, infrastructure, social welfare infrastructure, the Biden Jobs plan, etc.  Do as much as possible before the 2022 midterms and show the populace what intelligent responsive democratic government is all about.  

 

Republicans are not patriots.  They do not believe in democratic government, peaceful transition of power and the will of the electorate.  It is time for us to accept the sad reality that the Republican party does not really believe in America.  Let us move to save our republic.

 

Then pay attention to who you vote for in every single election, no matter how insignificant you may believe it is, and select people at the local level that will respond to the will of the people.  That is democracy's only real chance to survive.