For the Republican Party, reality is not an objective fact
to be acknowledged. Today’s Republicans aim to reduce the range of thought
through doublespeak, denial and deceit. Their language is stripped of reason
and raped by propaganda. Power is not a means for them; it is an end for
them—power for its own sake. With today’s social media and promulgation of
falsehood, reality is no longer something to be known and experienced. It has
been fabricated and transformed.
We have witnessed this trumped-up transformation and its
exacerbation these past years. Narcissistic Trump is a seditious, treasonous authoritarian inhibited by no laws
or moral consideration, and there are others who are willing to subvert the Rule of Law. They are also dangerous and
depraved: Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Pence, Mark Meadows,
Jeffrey Clark, Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, Scott Perry, John Eastman, Roger
Stone, Steve Bannon, Mo Brooks, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt
Gaetz, Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Charles Grassley, Rick Scott, Marco Rubio,
Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, John Neeley Kennedy, Ron Johnson, Louie Gohmert, Barry Moore, (Democratic
Centrists) Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, and Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Jeanne Herman, Doug Mastriano, Matthew DePerno, Brian Zahra, Mark Finchem, Tucker Carlson....
The destruction of America's fragile democracy will be the result of our failure to respond to those among us who choose to repudiate empirical truth and falsify reality for power and greed.
I am afraid that today’s Democratic Party’s ill-advised
priorities, political stupidity, schizophrenic identity, split coalition,
endless procrastination and vulnerable candidacies will enable the Republican
Party to take over the House and Senate in 2022 and the presidency in 2024.
What Biden and the democratic leadership need to address before it is too late, besides the antiquated filibuster and Freedom to Vote Act, is the lack of unity in the Democratic Party (e.g. centrists Manchin and Sinema); Republican propagation of lies; the ongoing Republican subversion of the next elections; the Republican attempt to rigged the voting system in their favor; the Republican focus on voting in partisan supervisors for elections; Republican gerrymandering; Republican legislator purges; Republican sabotage of the U.S. mail system; Republican attacks on Medicare and Social Security; Republican obstruction of serious gun control legislation; Republican (or theocratic) takeover of the U.S. Supreme Court; rising American religious fundamentalism; the pandemic and its effects on healthcare; the unvaccinated and their effects on hospitals and the economy; the global demand for thermal energy; the climate crisis; the education and teacher crisis; cyber security; immigration reform; corporate corruption; pharmaceutical greed; wage stagnation, inflation and reflation; Russia, China, North Korea...
What Biden and the democratic leadership also need to
address is an expansion of Medicare to include dental, vision and hearing
benefits; an expansion of the Child Tax Credit; an ample reduction of
prescription drug prices; the availability of healthcare for those who cannot
afford it; the income inequality and unfair taxation of the wealthy elite, and
the Build Back Better legislation, to name just a few.
It's like watching the fall of Rome all over again. Human nature abhors a strong civilization. Greed and corruption always destroy what would be best for the masses in order to serve the lust for power by the few. It's an old story that has repeated itself for 10,000 years. I thought we could evolve past it, but I've been proven wrong.
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