Day 48 – Where are we?

Day 48 – Where are we?

Monday March 8, 2021

Bill Kristol wrote in the Bulwark that the Republican party staged a coup. It failed and is now claiming therefore that the current administration is illegitimate and is therefore bracing for another insurrection.

I’m paraphrasing and maybe I got it a bit off but that’s the gist of it.

I read recently that due to the rural states voting Republican regardless of the facts or consequences and given that Republican lawmakers make no bones about trying to rig elections in their favor they hold an enormous structural advantage in this country and therefore a minority* can either stop the functioning of this government or when I power advance their agenda which is a mixed bag of white supremacy, enrich the rich, and tilt the power more in their favor. 

• by about forty million

Part of Mitch McConnell’s strategy is to be against change, the reason being that people inherently don’t like change. Therefore, doing nothing is preferable to doing something. 

The chance of this changing much is not likely.

I keep hoping that a letter writing campaign to the local papers in those states would do something, but what good would that do when in many local areas, most in fact, the TV, radio, and cable outlets are owned by very conservative media corporations that hide their agenda in the news and shows they put out for folks to ingest? 

It’s not a pretty picture. What I am seeing and hearing aligns with what George Orwell wrote in his book 1984. Truth is what “they” say it is. Facts be damned.

I was thinking this morning that if I ever have the grand Thanksgiving Day discussion with someone who espouses these “conservative” opinions that I should not try to defend truth and argue logic but rather I should seize the low ground, plant a flag, and defend it.

“You know that on January 6^th those weren’t Trump supporters but antifa dressed up in Trump gear.”

“It was mostly a peaceful protest with a few bad apples.”

“When Trump returns at the next insurrection it will be the sign of the beast and we will all be taken to heaven during the apocalypse.”

Maybe that last one I got a little twisted? I dunno. I’ll have to practice saying this calmly with a straight face.

But hey, why not? 

Nothing else has worked.

Maybe go on with:

“You know I think we should all be armed 24/7, just in case. Can you imagine that they don’t let people take an AK-47 onto the floor of the Capitol? What’s wrong with people? I mean you have to be able to defend yourself.”

Ah me.

PS Ya Gotta Believe! ( So I have to ask, “Why would you entitle a book ‘Unbridled Faith’ and then show on the cover a horse that is bridled?” )