We often talk about the violence of the river.  Yet, we never mention the violence of the banks that contain it. – Bertolt Brecht.

The river of US democracy is contained by the Constitutional Banks; The Courts, The Senate, The Citizen Voters and The House of Representatives. Trump with his personality cult, the Proud Boys, Q-anon and white supremacists make the democratic waters a little rough, nothing more. They are unable to stop democracy from flowing.

In the past years all the focus has been on Trump and his henchman gangs that he told to ‘Stand Back and Stand By.’ He then loosed them in his final bid to reverse the Constitutional processes. It was Trump and his backers that tried with their lies to ‘Steal’ an election to stay in power. It was the Constitutional institutions set forth by the founders that guided the democratic waters safely between their shores.

The Republican party has not learned anything from its recent party led insurrection of the Capital. They have lost the Senate and by it some power. Yet, they cling to the obstructionism, lies and hate speech. Somehow their voters hate for the sake of hate. We all lived with their changes and ignoring the COVID restrictions. Their State Capital insurrections against the proven shut downs and anti-maskers were a direct problem with the spread to their communities. Somehow asking for things at the extreme right is still their agenda. Attempting compromising solutions is not on their agenda. Their Representatives and Senators think that throwing rocks back in the river of democracy is the solution. I guess too many years of their Mystical Medicine Man president distorted their idea of reality. Being rude, telling lies, denying any responsibility for the misdeeds of their party and waving their beloved guns is normal for them.