“The essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while
retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty, to tell
deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any facts that has
become inconvenient,
…”
Trump and
the Republican Party are turning back the clock, not to the 1950’s as some opponents
say, but to George Orwell’s 1984. We
have gone down the rabbit hole of 1984 without even realizing the journey.
I fear that
the country will not recover from the Trump fascism. The expectations of a government of checks
and balances has been permanently broken.
The third of the country that is racist, homophobic, fundamentalist and
easily manipulated have found their power and will control elections in the
Republican party for decades to come.
“Ingsoc successfully
manipulated the mind to the point that a person thinks the opposite of what is
true”
Even with a
Democratic majority in the House, regardless of the crimes Trump commits, cries for impeachment are like an old man yelling at clouds. Impeachment would require a vote of
sixty-six senators and that will never happen: it would require 14 Republican
Senators to cross over and all Democrats to vote as a block.
The way
Senators are elected – two from every state – it is not likely that Democrats
will take over the Senate anytime in the future: California (thirty-seven million
population) has two Senators, North Dakota (seven hundred thousand population)
has two Senators.
The best-case
scenario is that the permanently angry, poorly informed, easily manipulated
base of the Republican party, controlled by rich capitalist, will continue to
elect Senators that will permanent block any progressive agenda.
The worse case is that the Republican party
of Trump has so normalized malfeasance that the United States will never
recover as a nation of laws that has
been the underpinning of our society.
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Ol’Buzzard
I read somewhere that America is now facing the situation that Germany did in the 1930s -- a third of its population wants to kill another third, and the final third is just looking on. Mobilizing that final third to give a damn is key to defeating the fascistic third. I sure hope that's possible to do.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Debra. The fact is most people are thinking someone else will fight for what is right and they just film it all. We are doomed as a nation. America will never be able to recover from this.
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