Sunday, May 9, 2021

Attacking America From the Right

 AMAZINGLY, SEVENTY PERCENT of republicans still believe, or claim to believe, that the election was stolen from Trump, a remarkable feat of mass delusion. Now they are trying to take over the country, remake it in their evil, twisted image, and, to boot, bring back Trump to rule once again. Needless to say, we the American sane must somehow prevent that nightmarish scenario from coming to fruition. The problem, predictably, is in conservative red states currently governed by Republican legislatures. An ongoing right wing rampage is flooding state legislatures with harmful, insane legislative proposals, some of which are becoming law. Ultimately, all of it will be challenged and overturned in the federal court system God bless the federal court system. Specifically, laws targeting transgenders, laws making it much more difficult to vote, and laws mandating self aggrandizing but false history education will be discarded by American society, the American people, as well as the courts, as unconstitutional. Also, the spate of laws being passed in many states making it harder if not altogether impossible to have an abortion will be thrown out by the Supreme Court, which will uphold Roe versus Wade, despite the number of conservatives on the high court. As long as there is an "America", Americans will from time to time see fit to stage protests in the streets for just causes, despite the attempt by  red states to make protesting essentially illegal. Limiting freedom of assembly and speech in public places is a violation of the first amendment, as the court will someday rule. This entire right wing frontal assault on America values will fail, just as the entire Trump movement will fail, despite the apparent interest among the right wing to run Trump for president again in 2024.Donald Trump has much, much farther to fall from grace, much of it involving pending federal criminal indictments against him, and the possibility of his being convicted of various felonies. Trump has basically become the cult leader of a violent, unreasoning cult of true believers who delude themselves about his  about his, and about their own, unbalanced mental state. In 2024, other Republican candidates for president, many of them attractive to conservatives, will finally bring Trump down politically. The Republican party has gotten to the desperate point in which the third leading Republican member of the U.S. House of representatives is telling the truth about Trump and his lies, and getting drummed out of the party for it. The Republican party cannot long endure like this.

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