Disrespecting Democracy, Like Good Republicans

 NOW THAT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ha formalized and confirmed the will of the people in the election of Joe Biden as president, another very reluctant handful of republican lawmakers and Trump supporters are beginning to acknowledge reality.The vast majority remain in denial, just as they denied the illegal election of Trump four years ago with Russian assistance, and have denied the criminality, chaos, and harmful policies of the Trump presidency. Even now, days after the revelation of a massive Russian hack into U.S. government computers, Trump remains silent, evidently in denial of the perfidy of his Russian employers. Attempting to undermine and subvert  American democracy by stealing the election , as Trump and millions of his supporters have done, will not make America great, but rather, quite the opposite. I t will, and already has diminished our country in the eyes of the world, and, more importantly, in our own estimation. The white Christian republican party is an anachronism, a relic of an America long gone, never really existed, will never return, was never intended to be, and was never truly great. The way to make America great is to look forward, not backward, to make America great "once and for all", rather "again". Desperate. shrinking political movements resort to desperate tactics. Desperate activism is nothing new among America's extreme right wing, because the right wing, conservatism, is always being supplanted b y change and progress. Their desperate attempt to usurp Biden's legitimate election is merely the continuation of a long standing trend. Watergate, "birtherism", the ludicrous lie that Obama was born in Africa, and was therefore ineligible to be president, a lie widely spoken among Republicans. voter suppression and gerrymandering are among an old bag of tricks, oft employed. They use lies and vicious slander to facilitate their diabolical ends. On the day Barack Obama was inaugurated, January 20, 2009, Republican congressional leaders gathered together for a single purpose: to devise strategies for defeating every legislative initiative which might come from the Obama administration, even before knowing for sure what those initiative might be. Mitch McConnell vowed to make Obama a one term president as his sole objective. he failed, fortunately. All across America's fruited plan Christian Republicans lynched effigies of Obama, and many still do. So much for bipartisanship, and racial equality. So much for conciliation with the right wing. In all this the desperation of a dying political movement is evident. What remains is to put it out of its misery, soon, and mercifully.