Assaulting Sanity

 TEH REPUBLICAN LEGISLATIVE ASSAULT on sanity seems ceaseless. The most recent attacks started with Donald Trump's insanely dishonest claim that the election was stolen, and the even more insane agreement he received from tens of millions of self deluded supporters. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed, in courtrooms across the country, and in the offices of election commissioners. Not content to leave well enough alone, in states controlled by republican legislatures a flurry of laws were brought up for consideration intended to reduce the number of people who vote, efforts thinly, falsely disguised as intended to reduce voter fraud, which does not actually exist. The considerable national backlash against this, evidenced by corporate boycotts of Georgia, ma have the effect of slowing this insane movement down. Undeterred, the Republican right now turns its malign attentions towards America's transgender community, determined to marginalize more the already marginalized. The piece de resistance? Now several state legislatures are proposing bills which would make it extremely difficult for protest movements like the "Black Lives Matter" movement last summer to stage protests in pubic, by redefining disorderly conduct as essentially which blocks traffic or  causes an inconvenience to non protestors, such as, being there. Making it more difficult to vote by imposing more obstacles to voting will inevitably have the effect of reducing the number of voters, and this, as is well known, is the only chance the Republican party with its regressive, unpopular policies, will have to win future elections. the attacks on transgender people is nothing other than a religious impulse; strict conformity to traditional Christian morality being the objective. Most public protests over the decades and centuries are carried out by progressives; people insisting on changing systems of injustice. Right wing republicans tend to deny the very existence of systemic racism, notwithstanding its obvious existence, and they resent minorities posing a threat to their white patriarchy by demanding equal rights. Worth mentioning is all the furor about limiting the right to assemble and protest is that doing so is unconstitutional, an infringement on basic American rights, of assembly and speech. Also worth mentioning is that among the speeches given in state legislatures complaining about the rioting and looting which occurred at less than five percent of Black  Lives Matter protest last summer, not a single Republican legislator mentioned the insurrection on January 6th at the Capitol, the one in which President Donald Trump tried to reverse the election and overthrow the government, and killed five people. Evidently that one doesn't count as "disorderly".