Battling To The Bitter End

 DONALD TRUMP and his political allies, consisting of nearly all congressional Republicans, most republican governors, state secretaries of state, and attorneys general, and millions of morally bereft bad American citizens, have embarked on their version of the Battle of the Bulge. a last ditch attack,not a diet, despite the soon to be former president's corpulence. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton et al are leading the lunacy, a publicity stunt disguised as a lawsuit, and the chief con artist himself, Don the con, is joining forces with the gang, getting on board the badly out of tune bandwagon continuing his money making protest of the election results.  What a pathetic legacy is being left by the Trump movement. Even our current most conservative supreme Court will laugh the phony lawsuit right out onto the streets, just like all the others have. Will Donald Trump attend Joe Biden's inauguration, as is customary for outgoing presidents? If so, will he do so still claiming to be the duly elected president? He will not attend, but he will spend the rest of his life claiming to be the true president in exile, and millions of his sycophantic cultish reprobates will buy the scam, or pretend to. When Biden moves into the white House, will Trump move out willingly, or be evicted forcefully as a trespasser? The potential for unprecedented high melodrama is apparent.  This has the making of good, or bad reality TV, or made for prime time episodes of the Kardashians, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, twenty twenty culture written all over it. Equally apparent is the appalling lack of honesty, decency, and patriotism of Trump and his cult following, for whom personal political power trumps basic morality and love of country. Rush Limbaugh, in a rare moment of lucidity, suggested that there is no hope of reconciliation between left and right in America, and that, as he put it, secession might be the only remaining alternative. He omitted mentioning exactly which side would secede, and where thy might go; perhaps he envisions two distinct countries superimposed upon a single continental land mass. but if Trump and his supporters are today's version of conservatism, and most of the rest of us represent the left, Limbaugh may have a point. Biden's plea that the virus is the enemy, and that we are not each other's enemy seems sadly mistaken. I for one cannot imagine ever breaking bread with anyone who supported Trump. Four long years made a believer out of me, a believer in the inherent evil of American religious conservatism. And this business of their trying to steal the election by claiming that it was stolen from them, well, that is the straw which broke my reconciliationary back.