Descending Into Savagery

PRESIDENT BIDEN laid an obvious trap for the Republicans, and they jumped right in, predictably. In the "State of the Union speech, he famously accused them (some Republicans) of wanting to abolish Social Security and Medicare, which, of course, if anybody truly tried to eliminate woule incite a massive national geriatric mob to violence. No politician in his or her right mind wants to be seen as a politician who wants to get rid of either of the two sacred programs. Of course, nobody ever accused all right wing Republicans of being in their "right minds", but, as they say, that's another matter. In the House Chamber, the Republicans, righteously outraged at the vicious, fallacious presidential accusation, rose as one a screamed, at the very tops of their enraged voices, that the president is a "LIAR!" Whereupon Mr. Biden immediately closed the trap door, by asking gently: "Oh, so you want to keep Social Security and Medicare then, correct"? He went on to say how much he likes and admires converts, but did not respond to accusations that he lies. (why should he?). Ever since the emergence of Trump, American politics has been what the war in Ukraine seems to be becoming, interminable and nightmarish. It leaves behind a foul oder, and an endless vista of barren, twisted, forlorn landscape...Hope flickers at the apparent fading of popularity among conservative Republicans for Trump, and the seeming emerging consensus that, well, its time to move on, as we like to say. In yet another Republican controlled state a massive education bill is in the state legislature, and seems headed to passage, among its provisions being a large pay raise for teachers and the prohibition of the teaching of Critical Race Theory in public schools. Censorship has returned to America, thanks to the G.O.P.. Republicans in the same state also want to eliminate the state income tax, while spending more on education and infrastructure. Good luck with that, as they say. Such a large part of the current conservative Repubican agenda seems utterly insane these days, stuff like banning Critical Rcce Theory, Christian Nationalism, tax cuts for the wealthy, denial of climate change, Trump's election lie, and so forth and so on, that it is apparent that merely removing Trump from prominence and leadership will not suffice to save the nation. The entire far right wing ideology must be exposed and eliminated. It remains more unbelievable then ever that so many poor people in the United States still embrace all this pro wealth anti-government far right nonsense.