Forming A Brand New Mob

AT MY LOCAL SENIOR CENTER, we enjoy a variety of activities, including field trips. We hop on the center's mini bus, and head out on the road, visiting art galleries, big kitty cat sancturies, lions and tigers and bears, oh my, attending movies, dining out, you name it, we git 'er done. We organize this by simply positioning a sign up sheet on a table near the front door of the center, John Hancock, first come, first serve. The bus can carry thirteen people, and is very uncomfortable, which by itself tends to hold down participation. It doesn't faze me, but does the more elderly and infirm. Members are welcome to make suggestions to the directer as to activities for field trips; she is quite open minded and accomodating. So accomodating that I put a bug in her ear, figuratively. She, like I, like sane, decent people, is a virulent anti-Trumper, more so than I, if that is possible. In a small southern town senior center infested with MAGA-folk, she and I, and a small group of sane decent people, hold forth, by our fingernails. She cannot openly voice her political opinions because of her position; inciting civil unrest and conflict within the organization under one's direction tends to weaken one's job security. I, however can, can openly voice, but don't. I'd hate like hell to get into a physical altercation with an eighty five year old cult member. I might get my hands dirty. But I can make suggestions for field trips. I suggested to her that we place a sign up sheet at the usual location, and that the field trip be a longer one than usual, to Washington D.C. on January 6th, which I think will once again be the date of electoral college certification. The activity: to help form and participate in, you guessed it, an angry, violent, insurrectionist mob, with the purpose of advancing up Pennsylvania Avenue from Trump speech ground zero, having assembled there, well armed, and aproach it (the Capitol building), enter it by any means necessary, shattered glass, and "compel" the Congress to cast its votes for Biden. Essentially, a Trump style insurrection, the mob somewhat different politically and ideologically than its predecessor. Why not? It nearly worked the first time. We both laughed, but she, the director, a friend of mine, vetoed the bill, citing her preference for her job and life to armed violent insurrection. Not lost in the comedic, satirical shuffle is that we the American people, by a definite majority, have elected a convicted criminal and insurrectinist as president, a previously twice impeached previous president. (He arguably belongs elsewhere, like in prison or in front of a firing squad.) My anti-"elderly insurrectionist" director friend says that she not only knew that Trump would win, but that she has given up on America. I conversely, didn't know squat; I thought Kamala would moidah dah bum, majorly. Nor have I given up on America. I shall forever hold out the hope that we the Americna people can and perhaps will someday establish an actual democray in the United States, with D.E.I. and all, a secular democratic republic, rather than the plutocracy that the founders founded, intentionally. James Madison thought that ninety nine percent of us the American people were and presumably still are too stupid to govern ourselves, so he chose not to let us do it. I tend to see his point, especially now, but yet...beg to differ. Call me a crazy idealistic democratic socialist progressive. As always, I might be wrong. But I still think the image of thirteen ederly left wing southern Baptist insurrectionist Democrats busing to D.C., armed and angry, is hilarious.