Revealing Ourselves

HUMAN BEINGS  are hard wired to disguise their true motives.  Its a necessary survival skill inherited form our remote animal ancestors. If, for instance, someone accepts our friendship without knowing that what we really want is their money or to have sex with them, we might increase our chances of getting what we want, without their suspicions alerting them to the need to take defensive, protective action, or so we are conditioned to believe. Evolution has rewarded the clever, the deceptive. Decoys work. They work in politics. Conservative republicans have presented a convincing sounding case that enacting more stringent voter I.D. laws and purging voter rolls of people who haven't voted recently are measures by which the voter roll swill be more accurate, voter fraud less likely, and elections more fair.Their true intent, however, is to reduce the number of people who vote, because when voter turnout is  high, it benefits Democrats. The people purged and prevented form voting are predominantly poor, predominantly members of the Democratic party. there is nothing in the constitution concerning voter identification. Suddenly, Republicans stray from their professed strict adherence to constitutional law, by adding impediments to voting which are not in the founding document. Similarly, as the election approaches, evangelical conservatives in particular are making much ado about the urgent necessity for President Trump to nominate and the Senate to confirm a new member of the supreme Court before the election on entirely spurious, dishonest grounds. they claim it is necessary to have a full court in the event of a contested election outcome. Their true motive of course is to pack the court with right wing justices before the Democrats come to power, in an attempt to impose a right wing agenda on America, an agenda America does not want, which a large majority of Americans reject. The aggressive behavior of the evangelical Trump base, the twisted immoral evangelical Trump base, may be indicative of an overly confident belief that their agenda is what America wants and needs. At the same time, they might wells sense that the forces gathering against them are sufficiently powerful to defeat them, and they feel they must act now, while they still can. When George Washington died in 1799, he had no idea that his political supporters and the party they founded would die soon after him. The same may prove true of Trump and his ill fated supporters and movement.