CLEAR AS DAY

  And there it is, folks, clear as day, as obvious as the nose on your face. The GOP has declared open warfare on democracy, wherever it  be found, wherever it tries to remain vital, life giving, and true to the ethos of America. Even as we know that we must continue to strive to improve our country, as we have done, at times reluctantly and even violently, over two and a half centuries, there are those whose main goal now, to the exclusion of all else, is to inter that democracy, entomb it for once and for all. 

From the time we first began to have  'social' lives, we learned and lived the majority rules law. Whether it was where to play, what to play, who was to be Class President, or Governor, the majority ruled. Or so we thought, until the Electoral College came into play. But we managed, for at least all players in the 'game' supported democracy. At least then they did.

Today there has been a tragic turn of events. Led by 'leaders' of dubious qualification, we began to turn on democracy. The previous President himself broached the idea of "Leader for Life". The same man and his pathetic, yet ever so harmful, servile enablers, advanced the attacks and ground was gained. To the point where all comity as Americans was lost. As  far as its return, great clouds of pessimism on that. Huge clouds. Suffocating and dimming the life breathe of American democracy.

"what do you expect from a street walker who has no clue about America."

The shameful words of one anti democracy person in New Jersey, referring to Kamala Harris. Comity? Respect? Dignity?  Poof! Going, going, almost gone.

The GOP has succeeded in multiple states in allowing, entitling, the corruption of the independence and neutrality of the election board, threatening the very cornerstone of our democracy. In the Senate and the House they insist on the filibuster legality and use it to contravene majority rule principle. They use it to destroy democracy, making it harder and harder to vote, aimed particularly at the voters who would oppose the GOP, making no bones about it.

Read the following samples of GOP thinking and then tell me you do not feel those flutters in the chest.

 "signed a law that fines social-media platforms that ban political candidates without warning up to $250,000 per day." DeSantis

"signing the elections law on Fox News while prohibiting other media outlets from attending, to his announcement last week that he will send Florida law enforcement officers to the southern border — as a dog and pony show for conservative media." DeSantis

Turning the pandemic battle into a political mudball fight, even as their constituents continue to needlessly die.

 "calls the bill's defeat a "win" for the country' - the voting rights overhaul, that is. Cruz

 GOP voting become a mirror of good fascistic obedient followers, as McConnell whips his Party members into slavish, robotic obedience.

 And AOC makes a statement on which we agree.

Call me radical, but I do not believe a minority of Senators should be able to block voting rights for millions of people," 

That, folks, is the crux of the matter, the clear as day issue facing us. Either we support democracy, face down and defeat those who would eliminate it, particularly those from within, or we lose it. Clear as day.