The Point When we Lose
As we get closer to a presidential election again, there are seemingly no filters as the lies fly thick and constant. The effort to minimize the impact of mail-in balloting by subverting the Postal Service is in high gear. And you would think, from hearing what the president is saying, that the Republicans were never in charge over the last 3.5 years and all of our county’s problems were caused by the Democrats, (who are not the majority party in the Senate or Executive branch and certainly not in the Judicial branch of the government).
Of course the biggest issue is the Coronavirus which has now killed over 200,000 citizens and continues unchecked throughout the nation. From it stems all of the economic problems, unemployment, health care and civil unrest issues that we are now facing. That a majority party would willingly lie and downplay the seriousness of a deadly disease is way beyond my comprehension and then, of course, deny that there is a problem at all. Covid is now the third leading cause of death in the US this year, behind heart disease and cancer.
It is almost certain that when the presidential election votes are counted, the Republicans will contest the vote numbers, and declare that the majority of votes cast are fraudulent in an effort to confuse and deny who actually won. The fact that they are willing to trash the Constitution of the US and try to hold on to power that they have not legitimately earned seems to me to be the height of treason and I hope it will be treated as such if such things come to pass. They have also stirred up the supporters of the president to armed intervention if things do not go the way they want. Good luck to that, Sunday cowboys against the US Army or Marines, I wouldn’t want to be around when that happens, if indeed it would happen to save the country. But would the military support the constitution or an illegitimately elected president?
If the Republicans actually win the presidency, then we really have lost. Environmental controls will disappear completely, all science and climate issues will be completely ignored. Healthcare will be legislated out of existence and social security will vanish leaving senior citizens without a lifeline. Human rights will be squashed and white supremacy will rule all, and democracy itself may become a thing of the past when there are no checks on political power. With the judiciary in control of the Republicans. it will become a tool to suppress all dissent and honest discourse will be totally diminished, not to mention a place were all political crimes are winked at. If you don’t believe me, just look at what has happened so far in 2020. How about having that for the next four years or the next decade?
(I have lived through a lot of good times in this country, I absolutely hate to see what it has become recently. In comparison, the next four years could be a picnic in a California forest.) (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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