Destroying Democracy, Deliberately

A PERFECT STORM of circumstances has conspired to produce what must be considered among the most bizarre stuations in recent American history. Trump's imaginary but massive crime wave and invasion of immigrants in Wasington D.C has resulted in the conversion of the nation's capitol into an armed camp by presidential declaration of emergency. Thousands of National Guards people from six different states, hundreds from each red state, are swelling the numbers and size of the roving bands of camoflouged young adults in the streets. Large groups of them spend much of their day hanging out in large groups, chatting with each, milling around, doing nothing, like high schoolers on a McDonald's parking lot on a Saturday night. What do they, what can they do all day, other than asemble in formation,march around awhle, and stand or sit around the rest of the time. Must get pretty boring. Also, very expensive, for the American tax payer. Like a metasticizing cancer, the perceived urgent necessity of fuly militarizing under martial law the Capitol City is spreading to every conservative state in America, which means, most states. The questions are; how big will it get, and how long will it last? Will it be permanent? Is this just another step forwared in establishing a military dictatorship in the United States, with Trump as the dictator for life? These questiosn are reasonable, because as of yet, there seems to be no, absolutely none, no resistance or negative feedback about all this among Stump's MAGA support base. Trump nation, seemingly, is good to go, down with it, as we say. Shocking. While militarizing Washington D.C.and turning it into Trump's personal fiefdom, the grand Republican project of gerrymandering every red state in America proceeds, full speed ahead. Texas is dead serious about it. The Republican Trump mob which controls the Texas government is now assigning law enforcement officers to follow, shadow, and monitor all Democrat members, and is locking up in the Capitol building any Democrat legslator who enters it. How much longer until the Lone Star State legislature passes a law criminalizing the Democratic party, and sending anyone who insists on belonging to it to Aligator Alcatraz? Florida would happily lock 'em up; the Republicans there are proceeding to gerrymander their state, practically forcing Democrats into political extinction. All too soon, every red state in America which aint square (and maybe even the square ones too) will be subject to gerrymandeirng by the Trump mob. By the time the 2026 elections arrive, the Republicans fully intend to make Republican domination of Congress automatic, inevitable, and perpetual, one red state at a time. Presumably a huge, overwhelming percentage of registered Republicans, including evangelical Christians, are perfectly happy with this destruction of American Democracy in exchange for one party authoritarian government. It goes without saying, or should, that this is not at all what the founders had in mind,or how American democacy is supposed to function, in which the party in power in every state changes and rigs the election system to favor their own party. When the other party is voted in, the whole thing starts over....and over. Create political social and political chaos, declare a national emergency, finish installing fascist, authoritarian government. As T.S. Eliot said: "So elegant, so intelligent". No, not really. Rather, evil, nightmarish. But whatever, a perfectly workable plan which is being implemented right before our eyes, with the apparent support and approval of much of America. We can only hope, not enough.