Commiserating, Conservatively

  A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER calmly, confidently announces to all the world that he is gay, unapologetically. The civilized world, meaning the progressive community, responds with a heartfelt show of  support, applauding  his bravery, assuring him that he is a welcome member of society, and much admired and loved. "Pride Month" proceeds proudly, with parades and events in cities and towns all across America's fruited plain, the LGBTQ's  annual declaration of equality, with the support and approval of civilized, meaning progressive society. They demand to be treated like human beings, rather than outcasts, and they are gradually getting their demand met. On another equal treatment demand front, a new national holiday comes into being, commemorating the end of slavery, if not racism. George Floyd involuntarily and unwittingly gives his life to inspire a global movement demanding equality for people of color, Black Lives Matter minions parade through the world's streets by the million, demanding racial equality, and soon thereafter statues and monuments to Confederate slave owning racist traitors come a tumblin' down. The lost cause is truly lost. Donald Trump and his reprehensible followers, bleating their usual hateful, lying blather, are laughed off society's stage, while viewership of FOX news, conservatism's central disinformation center, declines precipitously in popularity. All the while, America's ongoing mass murder slaughter belies the insane conservative contention that a general public armed to the teeth will prevent  killing sprees by giving "good people" a chance to gun down "bad people" before the bad people can start firing away. American Christian churches, the bastion of the far right, are declining rapidly in membership, as sanctimonious superstition goes out of style, amid the scientific secularization of American culture.  Desperate, the white Christian conservative Republican paarty is reduced to legislating voter's right out of existence, desperately trying to silence the progressive opposition it cannot defeat honestly at the ballot box. Oh, what a terrible time it must be to be an American conservative! No wonder conservative America elected, with Russian assistance, a crass, classless, ranting demagogue as president, and proceeded to approve his every vicious act and utterance. Then, when he tried to usurp the democratic process and overthrow the legitimate government of the United States, by instructing a violent mob of his supporters, good right wing Christian conservative Republicans, to attack and occupy the nation's capitol building, seventy five million Christian conservatives gave their whole hearted approval. That is desperation. That is deplorable. that is depravity. Welcome to the world of declining American conservatism.