What I
feared earlier this year has come to pass.
The racist, misogynistic and psychotic ravings of Donald Trump are now
just viewed in passing as a norm – just another outrageous statement done by the
President today.
Republican
lawmakers are silent, or when asked about Trump quickly switch to
accomplishments over the past year: The Supreme Court nomination, the tax bill,
deregulation. We hear nothing from the
leadership.
Even many
Democrats are silent. Today on Morning Joe Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat
of Minnesota, when asked about Trumps racist statements calling African nations
shit holes, veered away from the question and talked about her accomplishments
for the people of Minnesota – avoiding criticizing Trump for the racist he is.
This is
where we are: A Republican Party that colludes with the White House administration
to cover for Trump, and a Democratic party that complains; but not loud enough.
Why aren’t
democratic law makers and spokespersons hitting the TV networks and screaming
about Republican complicity, and calling out Trump as unfit for the office of
President – the Republicans would surely be doing that if the roles were
reversed. The Democratic attitude seems to be: we will
just complain if asked and wait for Mueller to do something about it.
The American
public is mercurial. I am not confident
that the 2018 elections will replace Republicans. We must remember, Trump showed who he was
during the 2016 election and he still became President of the United
States. His fanatical base is still out there; and
Republicans will fall in line and vote for party over country. That along with gerrymandered voting
districts and Republican enacted voter I.D. laws make a Democratic takeover of
the House and Senate tentative at best.
The damage
of this four years under Republican rule may be the advent of the decline of
United States as a world democracy and the empowerment of Russia and China as
the next world powers.
Lennin: …
“…the last bastion of capitalism, the United
States of America. We will not need to fight. It will fall as a ripe fruit into
our hands.”
the Ol'Buzzard
