It’s Come to This

                The Republican Party is on the verge of doing what seemed impossible only a year ago.  They are about to pass legislation that will officially make this country a kleptocracy like Russia.  The new tax bill isn’t just a bad bill, it is the pretext for a new round of government austerity that will make it inevitable to cut social security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, health care and infrastructure.  It will mark the point at which we stopped being a functional democracy and started evolving into a caste system where there are one set of rights for the elites and quite another set of rights for everyone else.  We’re on our way to the same predicament as the folks in Puerto Rico who live in colony that the elites have abandoned and left for dead.

                All of this is brought to you by a party that will openly run a pedophile for the senate and refuse to question the sanity of a man who is quite obviously mentally unstable.  We have reached the point where 30 -35% of the people will now tell the vast majority of their fellow citizens that alternative or oppositional views no longer matter.  We are in the middle of an occupation that will only end when we end it.  The midterms and the 2020 elections are the last chance to stop this short of revolution.  The time to equivocate over candidates is over.  We have to form a coalition – hopefully it will be as diverse as the slate of candidates elected this year – regardless of the candidates to not just drive the Republicans out of office but to drive them to extinction. 

                It is time to call the Trump administration guilty of treason, of selling out America for their own economic connections to Russia.  It is time to demand that Trump be removed from office and treated as the very sick and dangerous man he is.  It is time to hold him accountable for the sexual assault he bragged about committing and to call out the racist supporters of this administration.  It is time to tell the Christian Right that it is impossible to consider them Christians at all anymore.  What good is the idea of Heaven if when you get there you find Roy Moore and Donald Trump?

                This was legislation written up as it was passed.  No one could even know what was in it or what the possible ramifications of the bill would be.  All they knew was that their ‘donors’ told them to do it.  There were no hearings, no scoring of the bill, no debate and no compromise.  The Republican party is not an American political party.  An American political party realizes that the people who disagree with them still have rights.  Usually we talk about this as protecting the right of the minority, but in this case, it’s the rights of the majority that are being ignored.  Nothing in this bill is supported by the majority of the citizens.  The Republicans continue their use of phony data, their lies about what the bill would really do, and they are depending on a president too stupid to know the difference to sign it into law.

                The framers of the constitution never imagined a political party that cared so little about the republic or the people in it.  The Republicans have become the thing they most wanted to avoid: a class of political hacks who would sell the country for their own economic gain.  It’s time to vote them out or it's time to revolt.  Resistance alone isn’t enough anymore.  This era is over – get out of the way if you can’t lend a hand in making a new order.