Warning: I haven’t written a diary for a while and I am monumentally angry. I have been watching and listening very carefully to both sides and what I see is sickening. This is about those who inhabit Washington, not the decent people in America who believe but are not fanatics with a hideous agenda. This is about a need for critical thinking and the recognition that hate, abuse and lawlessness must not be the way of the future.
I can barely put into words my absolute loathing and disgust for the GOP. The freedom caucus, which is nothing more than an angry, extreme right wing, hate filled, gang of evangelical thugs, has taken over the republican party and gutted it. These people don’t give a damn about the Earth or have any will to protect it. They are willing to do anything to support their chosen one as long as what he does brings about armageddon and the rapture. All they care abut is being taken up while the planet burns. This warped belief system has enabled them to happily stand by and give nearly unlimited power to a feckless, maglignant narcissist who has no moral compass and basically wipes his fat ass with the constitution. But hey, as long as the rapture comes, it’s all good.
The rest of the republican party has folded like a cheap suit worn by cowards who should feel endless guilt and shame for their part in the debacle that is happening in our government. Their cowardly behavior has virtually assured there is no chance in hell for any sort of real justice to be available to the American people when their president has gone rogue. Until the enablers have been removed from Washington, the people have no chance of real self governance. This is an outrage not just because of the lies, cheating, and complete lack of morality but because it leaves the American people with only one option to preserve our democracy. That option is the ballot box. Any option through the courts barely exists anymore. An option through any branch of government is gone and America’s top cop is a follower of the chosen one and unfit for office. The supreme court itself has become partisan and cannot be trusted to be fair or impartial. Whether we like to admit it or not, we are on our own! The ballot box is our last remaining hope! Even that last remaining hope is a slim one because of gerrymandering, election interference from enemies and the purging of voter rolls. If we cannot manage to rid the country of these monsters we will be the last living Americans able to say we grew up in and lived in a true democracy.
This country is now listed #17 on the world list of democratic countries. Since trump, we are also listed as a “democracy in danger”. We need to stop patting ourselves on the back for our democracy and open our eyes! There are some out there who don’t give a damn about how others see us. Well they’d better start caring and above all, paying attention. We do not live alone on this planet. Others throughout the world are paying attention! Our enemies are paying close attention. Our friends are no longer simply scratching their heads and wondering what happened to the American good guys They are terrified because we have a criminally insane president who has been allowed to do whatever he wants by the worst fanatical government low lifes in modern U.S. history. To them, the U.S has lost it’s moral compass. I have friends in many other countries and the feedback I get is not just fear but how dumbstruck they are. They can’t imagine how the likes of trump happened. They want to know when the American people are going to come to their senses and recognize truth from lies and facts from fiction. Somehow we have forgotten that a president can be strong without being a bully. That he/she can be diplomatic, kind, have empathy and not be intentionally stupid and lazy. Crudeness and school yard name calling on a national or international stage is unacceptable and does not mean toughness and strength. They are the tactics of someong who is emotionally stunted. A president should have class, dignity and not be a gutter snipe. A good president should be a person who can be looked up to, not a preening narcissist who is nothing but a fool. The freedom caucus has made a choice to dwell in the gutter with the garbage rather than choose a true christian path of decency which they blather about constantly. Hypocrisy is rampant! Hatred for education has become the norm. The dumbing down of America is now complete. Carl Sagan warned us about this decades ago and it’s now costing us dearly. A good president does not tell his people that he loves them because they are stupid. trump does.
We need to set our arrogance aside and realize that we the people have not risen up and shouted our outrage to the rooftops. We have allowed corporate interests and corrupt politicians who don’t give a damn to decide our fate. We have allowed ourselves to be caught up in the trump circus and we haven’t paid attention to other critical issues. How many out there know trump is trying to roll back every single clean water protection ever enacted? He and his ilk ( McConnell in particular) are skttering around like cockroaches in the dark, dismanteling every protection the American people have against tyranny. They cheat to win elections, they excuse their hideous behavior, they lie, cheat, steal and the people be damned.The list of offenses against the people and the planet is frightening and it will take years if not generations to repair the damage they have done . Again, we are not paying attention!. Far too many of us are nose blind to the stench coming from Washington as well as the stench from many state officials who are also caught up in the twisted belief system of those in power.
I truly believe we are watching a democracy that is being felled by religious fanatisism. The fanatics have chosen their messiah and will do anything to protect him. The line between church and state has nearly been obiterated. One more round like the last four years will wipe it out completely. Washington has been gutted by the religious right. The American people must say ENOUGH! Our only chance is to vote. It must be a landslide or the orange pile will claim the election is a fake and refuse to go. For all our sakes, VOTE!!