Hating and Killing Democracy

THE GREAT GERRYMANDERING WAR has evidently beguan, perhaps inevitably. We all espouse the virtues of democracy and proclaim our support for it, but when push comes to shove many if not most of us seem to regard it with contempt, and to prefer more authoritarian forms of government. Democray, after all, is difficult, cumbersome, messy. Like my father said long ago, the best form of government is a benevolent dictatorship. In terms of sheer efficiency, that might be true. The problem is not that a few greedy, corrupt people try to subvert democracy to suit our own ends, but that all of us do, or try to. If we all care about democracy so much, really wnat it in the United States, then why can't we or don't we all work together to create the best and fairest democracy in the world, or, if nothing else, something, anything, even remotely resembling true democracy? If we all want all Americans to be politically equal and to be represented fairly, honestly, and equally in the United States government, then we would establish a fair, impartial process of districting and redistricting for the U.S, House of Representatives. Our current system is that whatever political party is in power in any given state among the American fifty nifty, so corrupts the process as to gain the greatest advantage possible for the party in power. Its done either by packing or cracking, by either concentrating voters or thinly spreading themout, depending on circumstances. Worse still is that for all appearances, American politcal culture is perfectly content with this courruption, good to go, as they say. You just don't hear the public outcry against it that you think you should,we just don't seem todo anything about it, such as establishing in every state, and or on the national level, an organized process, some sort of election commission to drawall election districts nation wide fairly, honestly, democratically. We teh American people seem, repeat "seem", to lack the political will to stop gerrymandering, which has being a part of our "democracy" since its inception. The current epidemic started in Texas among Republicans who adore Trump and simply cannot imagine a country in which progressive values and agendas are implemented. Now, it has spread to other states, as Trump's Republican party, at Trump's behest, is going lower and lower morally. In desperation, the Democrats are starting to retaliate in other states. Soweallappearto be perfectly content to live in a political system in which subverting, distorting, rigging elections in direct contradiction of all democratic values is widely accepted as the norm. Then of course there are all the other various weapons in our national attack on democracy; voter suppression, seemingly unlimited amounts of money corrupting politics by giving the billionaire class, our "corporate mastes", control of "our" political system. Donald Trump was elected by about thirty percent of eligible voters. Every Trump policy, every Republican policy, is supported only by a minority of Americans, as we are bieng governed by a minority. An overwhelming majority of Americans do not want Trump, Republican leadership,and both Trump and the Republican party know this. this is why they are trying so desperatly hard to rig the forthcoming mid term elections. Its their only chance. We the American people mcanand must stop this encroaching fascism, Trump's authoritarian leadership, as soon as possible. Voting against them in such great numbers that even rigged elections cannot save them is the best hope for creating, and preserving true democracy in the United States.