Hearing Something Horrible

ONCE IN A HORRIBLE WHILE you hear somebody say something that you wish you hadn't. And Its news so awful that you simply want to hide under the bed and avoid it. When you hear it from a credible source, from someone you know isn't B. S. ing you, its all the worse. That's why I jolted alert and cringed when, on National Public Radio the other day, they said that in some parts of the country, people are leaving the Democratic party and joining the Republicans. The they went on to give some numbers and stuff, but to me the whole thing sounder rather shaky, uncertain. For example, are there any Republicans leaving the Republican party and becoming Democrats? Surely, just a few. There seeems to be a slight uptick in ethnic diversity in the grand ole party - there are more black and brown conservatives nowadays. This horrible inflation will cost Biden and the Democrats the November election unless something changes very soon. That would be especially taagic, becaue niehter Bidn nor any of the Demmocrats in office had anything to do with it, the inflation, that is. For that, blame the pandemic. There is absolutelly no sane reason for any reasonably intelligent being to leave the Democratic party and become a Republican, period. Or, "full stop", as we say these days. The mere fact that about seventy percent of registered REpublcans still support Trump clearly proves this, proves the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Republican party, and Christian conservatism in general, which is the G.O.P.s base. With each presentation by the Congressional committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, Trump's villianous criminality is made more and more obvious. It is becoming increasingly difficult to even imagine that the Department of Justice won't indict him. I've got news for those who need it. Becoming a Republcian, embracing and enacting Republican economic policies will not solve or help the inflation problem, nor any other economic problem, period. Conservative economic policies only glorify, aid, and abet unregulated free market corporate capitalism, which only concentrates wealth among the wealthy. If you love Trump, join the G.O.P. Otherwise, strive, like good Americans, to defeat Trumpism and the infamous Republican party...This viewpoint is not predicated on divisiveness or hatred. The American people must ask themselves whether it is truly in their best interests to support a political party most of whose members believe that using violence to overthrow the American government is an acceptable solution to the problom of their candidate losing an election. Or whether to support a political party most of whose members believe that global warming and climate change are a hoax. Or a political party which, if given power at the national level, would almost certainly legislate to make abortion a federal crime, and would quite likely do the same with contraception and same sex marriage. The choice is whether to move forward with progresssive policies, or backward with outdated ideals.