Spreading Disease

TEH DISEASE, which began witha single, evil virus in the form of a ie, has, as they say, metasticized, has gone grass roots, and spread across the country, well organized at the local level, if not the national. Nationally, it remains a bit amorphous. Trump's big lie has gone viral, digging its insidious way deeper into the fabric of American culture and politics, badly damaging both. Now it has twisted and morphed into a holy crusade to reform already fraud free American elections, by giving Republicans the power to overturn them, and by making it ever more difficult to vote, thereby driving down the number of voters, eliminating mainly poor black and brown citizens from voting. All this is precisely as planned. If Republicans have their way, if Republicans gain control of congress and enough state governments, it will soon become very difficult for anyone oher than a white conservative Christian Republican to vote. Or if not, it won't be because the Republcian party didnt try. All over the country, in Republican primaries, election denial candidates are running for office, and although most of them are not winning, enough of them are to create alarm. Right wing groups all across the fruited plain at the local level are going door to door trying to persuade anyone who will listen that the election was stolen from Trump. They simply will....not...let...it...go. The insane irony of it all is how blatant and obvious Trump's lie was from the git go, and how transparently obvious a lie it reamins today. NObody can possibly really believe taht teh election was stolen from Trump. From a psychological and sociological standpoint, it is fascinationg to witness firsthand the phenomenon of seventy five milllion people instantly, en mass, fervantly embrace an outright lie uttered by a strangely popular, criminal demagogue, and then to proeed to turn the lie into an ideology, a cause, a crusade, a movement, a religion. Election denialism. It has utterly taken over and transformed American conservatism. American conservatism is now engaged in a desperate struggle to reduce the number of peope who vote in the United States, dangerously. Also, America's right wing wants to outlaw any mention of gay or transgender culture in public schools, and prohibit any mention of America's history of racism, nor of its systemic racism, extant today. American conservatism, embodied by the Republicna party and within it the evangelical Trump movement - is stark, raving, insane, as evidenced by its insane policies.