I know I’m preaching to the choir, mostly, but we have nothing to lose by sticking with Biden—provided he uses his new role as “King of America” to lock some important things down before the election; like voting rights, women’s rights, and straightening out the most corrupt supreme court we’ve ever had. But most of all he needs to pull together every expert available to him to legislate out Project 2025, which can easily be construed as a treasonous attempt to dismantle the Constitution and overthrow our democratic republic. I don’t care if he does it from a hospital bed! He has enough supporters around him to get this done! And with an aggressive campaign we can own the house and the senate as well.
Whatever you fear Trump can do as king, Biden can also do. Keep that in mind. And given the kind of man President Biden is, he will never abuse his power for retribution, vengeance, personal gain, or to dismantle the Constitution! He needs to do everything in his power to protect us.
There is no “high road” here. We are fighting a war of domestic terrorism against our country, and Biden must use his power to protect the American people and create a failsafe for our law and order.
The left need protection from the right and the right need protection from themselves. The majority of Trump’s base is either illiterate, deeply immoral, or both. Many voters on the right don’t even know what the Civil War was, where it was, or what it was over-- much less who won! They seem to believe the Constitution is a massive tome, comprehensible only to legal experts. They won’t read it. They most certainly won’t read the 900+ page agenda of the Heritage Foundation and playbook describing how far right Christian Nationalists plan to take away so many rights that we will be indistinguishable from any other authoritarian dictatorship on the planet. They simply are not interested in facts, history, reality, or truth.
So yes, the right must be saved from themselves. I recently saw a documentarian interview the poorest white people in the country living in the deeply red coal mining states. Many were sick. All were destitute, living on disability, welfare, and using the ACA for healthcare. When asked if they would use “Obamacare” they adamantly said NO! They preferred the Affordable Care Act instead and said it had saved them. This is Donald’s base. If he says he’s physically fit, handsome, and the Biden economy is a “disaster” then it must be true because he was a Hollywood star and a billionaire. When he says he “never had sex with a porn star” many don’t even know he was ever accused of such a thing and believe he would certainly never do such a thing because—same reason. When he told a crowd voters that in 30 years he has never had a war… well I could just never figure that one out. I gave up. He’s either lying or babbling nonsensically. Sure, let’s give that guy the nuclear codes.
When money is your religion and your measure of a man, you become as corrupt he is—the one who brags about molesting women and claims been okay to do so for millions of years. When he tells his base in Ohio that they sent a man to a plant, “think of it” he says as he stares wistfully up at the sun, they just stare up in awe, slack-jawed and uncomprehending in their red hats with their beer bellies, drooling on themselves. When presented with the truths about Trump’s character, their pastors tell their flocks “God can use anybody to do his work” and “God doesn’t use perfect vessels.” Never mind that there are no perfect vessels.
We’ll never break through the right wing’s barrier of fantasy, lies and wishful thinking. Their inability to think rationally or critically about anything isn’t an accident or a product of economic or ethnic inequality. It is by design since before WWII when Hitler attempted to seduce the U.S. with his white supremacy hate speech, the same propaganda that turned ordinary German citizens into monsters ready to commit genocide. And the Heritage Foundation has the blueprint; Make each generation less literate than the one before. Replace science with religion and demonize the scientific method. End public education, a privilege we have cherished in this country since it began. Outlaw the greater good, and declare Jesus’s teachings “woke,” while at the same time declaring America a “Christian Nation” divinely gifted to white men only. The hypocrisy is mind-boggling!
This evil seed has likely been around since the dawn of civilization in one form or another. Freedom and compassion, concern for the greater good, and a large scale respect for life is relatively new. I used to believe it was part of our evolution, the direction in which a healthy human race would grow. But now I realize it will always be a fight to suppress the growth of that seed, to keep the weeds of it from choking out any kind of progress toward a reasoning, thriving humanity with empathy, compassion, and kindness. We’ll always have to fight to keep the Hitlers from overtaking a civilized population. The balance is fragile and might always be in favor of the least civilized, most hateful among us. But it doesn’t have to be. We don’t have to let the worst of us steer us into ruin.
The same day Donald Trump announced he would be running for another term (or ten), his campaign announced in public media that he would deploy the Heritage Foundation’s agenda, aka Project 2025. That was 2 years ago! The agenda reads like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Fahrenheit 451,” and Orwell’s “1984” all rolled into one, only worse. The media is just now in the last few weeks putting the “news” of the Heritage agenda out there. It might very well be too little too late. Let’s make sure it’s not. Use your voice everywhere you can! Vote to save your voice before you lose it forever.