No, I am not shocked, but yes, I am. How could I be shocked when for years, literally years, I have been writing of the danger Trump posed for our republic. Again and again, a miserable game: Trumpian outrage and blog reaction. But nothing helped. Even as the vote proved that some sanity remained within the voting population, the number and the fervor of Trumpian die hards are enough to eat away at the soul of this country. How many more people are willing to cede this country to an insane man? How many are willing to establish prison camps, torture sessions, dark days of oppression and persecution? Apparently, far more than is healthy for the continued existence of the United States of America as envisioned. From the Declaration of Independence, through the Constitution and Amendments, via war after war protecting its independence and in defense of a better world, through mistake and error after error, through correction after correction? Out with the trash!?
This insurrection, this blatant coup attempt - make no mistake about it, for it continues on, well apace, its presence reeking of sulfur and the stink of hate. No illusion, it is a confident cabal of teflon law breakers, sure of themselves and their ability to evade, openly defy the law without compunction, no fear of the seemingly toothless law, as no criminal actions have been pursued in the context of this coup. WHY THE HELL NOT?
Two contrasting road maps, polar opposites. One lays out a map which demands action, participation, alertness, sacrifice. The other demands obedience and fear. Nowhere is this contrast of maps more obvious than in the members of the Supreme Court, our supposed bastion of the law. How things have changed. How Marshall, Frankfurter, Ginsberg, all the decent Justices are rolling in their graves, horrified at what has happened to their beloved, once honored and honorable Court.
Sotomayor, in a moment of sadness, in hopes of waking people up, says "There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount," and continues with "But my point is that there are going to be a lot of things you don't like" and that the public can change." It is believed "She is crafting arguments for future advocates, she is creating these road maps for how to restore rights to disempowered people," Contrast that with the blatant lies and whines of three never should have been Justices, disgraceful and shameful, and one who needed to have retired. So they whine: "The media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference. So if they think you are anti-abortion or something personally, they think that’s the way you always will come out.” and then, guess what? They go right ahead and do exactly that, proving the point. We are lost.
Our maps are crumbling, the cookies joining them in that state of crumble, even as the cliff edge and its underpinnings are eaten away, eroded by the war on the supporting foundations of that once stalwart, commendable, reassuring mountain. No longer. No longer. Not at all. We are that close to a successful coup. If it will not happen on the streets, or via frauds and attacks on campaigns, then it will happen through the even more frightening and quite possible path - turning the very law which is supposed to protect us and the republic, against us, using and twisting phrases, misstating, misinterpreting, but there all the same.
We have seen much of it already, including a 400 page ultra frightening report on Trump's rabid attempts to overturn Nov. 3. His insane decision that he is the One, the Leader for Life and no law will stop him in fulfilling that goal. Along with him trail the suckups, the enablers, the power seekers, those who have ceded souls to him, marching along in the same shoes, fit to their misshapen cloven consciences, sure that the bubble their leader, Trump, resides in, is the bubble they too want. Goodbye to us. Hello to horror. Hello to The End.
No, folks, I have not jumped the shark or any other creature. Such is the peril we are in. We have allowed others, enemies of freedom, of equality, of rights, to steal the republic from right beneath us. We have enabled that. We have been indifferent, or careless, or pumped full of anger at the wrong things, fooled by a madman who hates those who are his base, his rabid supporters, who literally are willing to die to prove their loyalty to him and his twisted ideas. Manifestly dangerous untruths are accepted as words from the heavens. Religion is perverted, claiming G-d as their inspiration and justification. Such a shameful approaching end to a glorious experiment of mankind.
Unless we act. Now. Demand criminal charges. Demonstrate that no one, nobody, is above the law. Prove that we will defend our country, what it stands for - or once stood for - and can and will do so again. Prove to history that we are worthy successors to those who have gone before, fought to defend this country, shed their blood, gave their very lives to it and its ideals. Can we do that? Are we even willing to do that, or do we think that life under Dictator Trump will be okay, not worth opposing?
I hope not. I truly do. And yet - I despair.
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