Encroaching

THERE IS A SUBTLE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT, a "vast right wing conspiracy" as Hillary Clinton might put it, to insidiously install a broad based conservative agenda in the United States, to literally impose a conservative Christian agenda on America,by whatever means are necessary, presumably including even violence. "Violence" because as we have seen, Trump supporters, who presumably included a fair number of conservative evangelical Christians, stormed, attacked, and invaded the U.S. Capitol building in an attempt to overthrow the American government by stealing the American presidency on behalf of Donald Trump, whom they presumably intended to install as president, or perchance, authoritarian autocrat. Many members of the far right have openly proclaimed a willingness to use violence to defeat the progressive movement. This "conservative populism" nonsense is nothing other than the imposition of a conservative agenda in America not by using expertise and careful planning, but rather, by acceding to the whimsical choices of a demagogue leader, like a Trump, a Hitler, or a Putin. In America, its Trump, and I'm not so sure we got the better part of the bargain. the primary tools the right wing is using to take over America, cultural values and all, are gerrymandering and court packing, both of which are well known to most Americans, most of whom are quite familiar with both. Both must be grought to an end. To design political voting districts to favor one party over another is the opposite of democracy, and every good American should rise up against it strenuously, vigorously, and vociferously. The federal government, congress, could do that with a single piece of legislation, but so far refuses to, largely becuase of Republican obstructionism. We must also stop allowing people to be appointed and elected judges merely because they are conservative politically. Public awareness is teh key here. Voters must become more knowledgable about potential court nominees, appointees, or elected judges, and oppose all those whose primarily credential is obviously, transparently, nothing other than being a far right wing evangaliceal Christian, for instance. Being a pro life anti-gay pro religion free market lawyer does not qualify anyone to be a state or federal judge. what qualitifes anyone and andeveryone to be any kind of a judge is the demonstrated ability and willingness to render from the bench equal justice under law, and that's it. Its that simple. NOthing else matters. but for man years now we the American people have sat idlly by; while far right wing extremist politicians have packed America's courts with far right wing religious fanatics whose bizarre decisions have already drastically altered American society, threaten to alter it much more, against the wishes of a large majority of Americans, and must therefore be stopped. This crazy conservative aganda; Christian conformity, anti-gay, anti-public sector, anti-expertise, book banning, anti-choice, isolationist, and all the rest, is not what most Americans want. Most Americans want a far more progressive set of policies, including freedom of and from religion, and a ban on book banning, and guaranteed reproductive rights for women. It will have to happen at the ballot box, to vote out all these state and federal far right politicians who are making a mess of America. The Trump movement still seems destined to crash and burn. We must hope that when it does, the far right agenda will go down with it.