Imposing a Far Right Agenda

AMONG THE MOST ALARMING TRENDS in American politics is the recent tendency for conservative, Republican states to elect super majority Republican state legislatures, and to impose a far right wing legislative agenda on the state. Its happened all over the country, is still happening, and arouses the fearful question of how far will it go? Suppose, for instance, that Trump gets elected in 2024, along with Republican majorities in both the Congressional House and Senate. It may be unlikely, but very possible. Undoubtedly the first major piece of legislation would be to criminalize all abortions in every state in the country. American women would be trying to get overseas to have abortions, or resort to the old tried and tragic method of coat hangers in dark alleys. The far right uses deception inlabeling to achieve its nefarious objective. Legislation passe in states intnded to destroy labor unions to drive down the cost of labor is misleadingly called "right to work" laws,as if they were liberating people from oppression, defending freedom and liberty, rather then actually doing quite the opposite. Conservatism in its current form is very anti-union, and very pro billionaire busiess and corporate owner. All the various pieces of legislation limiting discussion of racism in publi schools, prohibiting any references to sexual orientation or LGBTQ people,and banning books are given positive sounding names, like the "LEARNS ACT" in Arkansas, are part of a more conprehensive nationwide conservative agenda: to win the culture war on behalf of conservatism, to turn the United States into a legally right wing country, one piece of legislation at a time. Takig over the Supreme Court was a big part of the plan, and electing right wing lawmakers in as many states as possible, who in turn appoint right wing judges, furthers the process The United States is moving in the direction of a complete ban on abortion throughout the country, one sate at a time, regardless of circumstances. Some federal judges are slowing down the process, but not enough to stop it... Their ultimate goal is, again, the complete abolition of abortion rights nationwide. Consider some of the books being banned, or being onsidered for banning. Among them are some of the greatest novels in literary history, such as "The Grapes of Wrath", by John Steinbeck, and "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. Both of these novels were written in the eraly part of the twentieth century, before labor unions and labor laws had elevated teh working person to a level of respetability. Both novels tell the story of poor hard laborers, struggling to keep their demeaning jobs and also feed their families, which they barely can do. both novels were written by socially conscious writers who wanted to elucidate the truth about the plight of the working class in twentieth cantury America. Bot books are, in essence scathig attakcs on the greed and brutality of unregulated corporate capitalism, in which workers were abused and discarded like garbage. Both of these seminal works of historically accurate fiction aroused the conscienceness of millions of Americans, which resulted in popular activism which brought about funadmental changes in labor laws and conditions.Both should be required reading in every high school in America.The scathing attack on corporate capitalism is what right wingers don't like; capitalism, more than Christianity, is their true religion. Its amazing, however, in a way, that social critique novels written more than a hundred years ago, and advocating only for what today we consider basic rights, can still evoke such resentment among far right extremists. It just goes to show how backward and behind the times they are.