Fighting Far Right Extremism

DONALD TRUMP, while in office, committed crimes, which must be, and are being investigated. Most Republicans are loyal to Trump, so, as of now, the party depends on Trump. It is not a desirable situation for the G.O.P. to be in. The Democrats can spend the next year reminding the voters that all Republicans were opposed to the new infrastructure program, and the pending Build Back Better bill, which would, and will when it is passed make life better for millions of Americans. The Democrats should encourage the Republicans to expalin their opposition to these two projects. Encourage the Republicans to explain why they continue to support Trump, his big election lie, and the Capitol insurrrection, long after they happened. Their only answer is to continue supporting the big election lie. What they are trying to do is to ignore it, and to district the voters. They want to stop all the investigations of Trump, because the results will inevitably make Trump and everyone who supports him look very, very bad, and will damage the Republican party. The sheer amount of corruption from the Trump administration, and the pervasive, wholesale embrace of it by his supporters, most of the G.O.P., clearly dmonstrates how totally corrupt the Republican party has become in committing to Trump. The American people, in order to force the Republican party to either drastically reform or to dissolve altoghther, will lhave to badly defeat it in upcoming elections, removing it from state, local, and national power. It seems amazing and surrealistic that one of America's two major pollitical parties recently tried to overthrow the government, is totally unapologetic, continues to suooprt the attempt, and yet, retains much of its strong, albeit minority support among the American people. The far right movement in America, much of which includes the conservative evangelical Christian community, embraces an insane agenda, which must be defeated. This agenda still includes overthrowing the government, keeping Confederate statues and monuments in place, and cherishing the "Confederate Heritage", ignoring racism or claiming that it does not exist, while simultaneously turning the United States into a Christian theocracy and mandating un unregulated, capitalistic, free market economy, economic and social Darwinism. Its insane, all of it, and it would only result in an oligarchial, plutocratic rule by the wealthy elite, with most people impoverished, and virtually enslaved. The entire far right agenda is toxic, deadly poisonous, fascistic. Perhaps the craziest of all is their cultural war, which includes rejection of science, and the teaching of false, hagiographc history, rather than factual history, to school children. Please understand; the hagiographic, patriotic, sanitized, whitewashed pro American version of American hisotry is a complete lie. The negative, critical, "anti-American" version is the historically accurate, correct version, notwithstanding its unpleasantness. It includes hundreds of years of slavery and genocide, brutal exploitation of millions of laboring workers, persistant, ubiquitous systemic racism, and pervasive cultural violence. All this historical unpleasantness does not preclude teaching about Martin Luther King and the racial equality movement, anti-war movements, the struggle for gender equality, the labor movement, and America's history of social and economic reform, which are the "good", positive aspects of American history. It requires more, to tell the truth, than to present American history as a steady, continuous litany of achievement, accomplishment, and virtuous, constructive behavior by European-Americans, fortified by their devotion to the Christian faith and free market capitalism. History, in a nutshell, is complicated and often unpleasant, and there is nothing that we can do to change this stark fact, other than lie about it so often that most of the population believe the lies, which is precisely what has been happening in American schools for two hundred years, and is onlly now changing to a more honest, realistic approach to American history. We must teach and accept the truth, and Americans should be patriotic and love their country despite, not because of, its history. The current conservative crusade to stifle truth in education, especially history, must be defeated, utterly.