Today I am a pessimist. Maybe tomorrow things will look a bit better. We'll see.
I fear it
is already too late. The harm done to
the United States of America by Donald J. Trump, the totally incompetent
huckster the Republicans prostituted themselves to by giving him their
Presidential nomination in 2016 is almost irreparable. The rightwing extremists, the greedy, the
bigots, the “Ayn Rand” libertarians and the deluded neo-Nazis have gotten what
they wanted due to the unbelievable ignorance and gullibility of the American
voter. This has been locked in with Trumpublican
court appointments which will doom the United States to a half-century of
darkness.
I do not doubt that Roe vs.
Wade will soon be reversed, along with the Affordable Care Act, and other laws
that the voters are too dumb to fight to preserve. Democrats should recognize that the normal
election process will no longer exist in the future as we know it to remedy
this situation. If Trump is re-elected in 2020, bringing with him a fully
Republican Congress and greater control of State legislatures, voter-repressive State legislation and
further gerrymandering will assure that.
The American public is not mature enough to be able to make the right
decisions necessary to preserve a democracy in this country. We are not yet ready for it. The “founding fathers” were far too
optimistic.
The
only solution might be for the Democrats to win the Presidency and both Houses
of Congress in November but I do not think that will happen, unless all
Democrats unite to make it happen. (And
even that won’t remedy the harm already inflicted on the judicial system by the
lifetime appointment of conservative lifetime judgeships.)
The
two prongs of a Democratic defeat: (1) A Sanders candidacy is one certain route
to total defeat and must be prevented. And
if Sanders is denied the nomination, as I see it, (2) Sanders' supporters will probably not back whomever else the Democrats might nominate,
another guarantee of their defeat ... unless of course, Sanders throws his full
and wholehearted support, bringing along all his supporters and well-oiled
organization, to the ultimate Democratic nominee. Do you think that will happen? I don’t.
So, it is already too late. But as I said,
Today I am a pessimist. Maybe tomorrow things will look a bit better. We'll see.
JL
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