Disuniting

 IT IS WORTH  NOTING that nary a House Republican voted in favor of Biden's roughly two trillion dollar Covid relief bill...It was predictable..Republicans never met a  piece of helpful legislation directed at mainstream Americans that they couldn't turn down. The rule of thumb is; when Democrats come to power, Republicans magically, mysteriously transform themselves into true staunch fiscal penny pinchers, having before gone on lengthy spending binges, usually for things like militarizing the nation's police. That sudden emergence of right wing fiscal responsibility, and such pandering, sincere concern for the financial obligations of their children, and their children's children. True deficit hawks, those conservatives, especially when it comes to spending on things which help poor and working poor people. Conversely, perversely, they are always ready, able and willing to make deep tax cuts for the ultra corporate wealthy, as they did in 2017, exploding the national debt they care ever so much about.Republicans never met a gift care package for America's corporate wealthy which they were not eager to deliver, obligingly, to pay their debt to their billionaire benefactors. That former president Trump spoke at and spewed verbal garbage along with the conservative political action klan tells us much about america's conservative movement, in its current incarnation, which encompasses the Republican party, and is an extremist proto fascist movement which includes Christian nationalists, white supremacists, and various other terrorists gangs. They have in common that they are comfortably willing to employ violent and illegal means of subverting the democratic process when it fails to produce results favorable to their agenda, even to the point of attempting to overthrow the government through violent insurrection, as we saw on January 6. the mere fact that much of the conservative community seems to approve of such methods is alarming, but no more alarming that the currently ongoing nationwide effort by Republican state legislators to rewrite election laws to make it more difficult to vote, instead of easier, as it should be. It amounts to voter suppression by legislation. Biden's defeat of Trump was largely the result of huge voter turnouts in many states, with minority turn out particularly putting Biden in the winning column. Violence or legislation; either means serves the dame end, either is acceptable to far right wing America, which correctly sees its existence threatened by dwindling numbers. the lines of our slow motion american political civil war are now clearly drawn, firmly set in stone. Far right white Christian conservatism, including the G.O.P., christian nationalists and white supremacists, versus a diverse coalition of progressive minorities. may the better side prevail.