Running to the Right While Black

IN THE GREAT formerly confederate state of Georgia two black men are running against each other for the United States Senate, which undoubtedly proves, in the minds of conservatives, that racism no longer exists in Georgia, nor anywhere else in these United States. One of the African-American gentleman, the Democrat, is a politically progressive Christian minister, like jesus. The other, a Republican, is a semi-literate ex-jock with a bad temper and a probable past which contradicts his proclaimed values. He denies the probable past, of course, especially the part about urging his girl friend to have an abortion, then paying her to do so. She seems to have the proof. Quite the pro-lifer, that one. It must have been difficult for the Republican part in Georgia to find a black conservative with a resume suitable for politics, but they dug deep, and found one. The abortion controversy, as well as the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of their candidate is easy for conservatives to ignore, just as they continue to ignore Donald Trump's criminality because Trump suits their purposes; he voices their white rage over the growing political and economic power of minorities and their progressive values. Conservative evangelical Republicans, who overwhelmingly still support Donald Trump, care nothing about Trump's utter depravity and criminality; they simply ignore it as inconvenient, which clearly reveals the utter moral bankruptcy of conservative Republican evangelical Christians in general. The Republican Senate candidate from Georgia, Mr. Walker, if elected, will obvioulsy do exactly what he is told to do by whatever faction of the G.O.P. ends up governing Georgia. In many states across the nation, election deniers will get elected to office, an unpleasant, frightening thought. Anyone who truly believes that the election was stolen from Trump is demonstrably emotionally, mentally ill, and not qualified to hold office of any sort. If both houses of Congress are governed by a Republican majority, which seems quite likely, it will be interesting, in a bizarre, tragic sort of way, to observe the twisted, garbage legislation they try to palm off on the American people.