There was a time when the United States was the beacon to the world. The shining city of democracy on the hill some politicians used to call it. The country was growing and fighting the spectre of totalitarianism referred to as communism. There was upheaval as the United States got itself into a war to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam. The youth of the country rebelled against the established conservatism that was sending it to this seemingly endless war.
Black Americans both young and old were rebelling too. Theirs was a different conflict born from a disproportionate reduction in opportunity and rights compared to their non-Black fellow US American inhabitants.
The two movements simultaneously shifted the American psyche closer to a pure, just democracy. Nurtured by the visions of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, who both pushed the hardened conservative agenda against the foe of totalitarianism and accepted the reasons for the social upheavals, the rebellion’s goals pushed against the blockade against them with seeming success in the 1964 civil rights bill. This was followed by the Voting Rights Act in 1965 which prohibited the implementing of a voting qualification or prerequisite to voting.
Richard M. Nixon readdressed the conservative agenda to pushing Vietnam to a higher and more deadly conflict. Men were drafted to continue the deadly conflict against the Vietnamese struggle for freedom against colonialism and their imperialism past in the name of the American conservative’s visions of world democracy.
During these times women won the right in the decisions about their reproductive organs and control their future. They were saved from the deadly alley coat hanger and won the right for safe and legal abortions Roe v Wade was decided January 22, 1973.
Conservative President Nixon, guilty of prolonging the war for political reasons, found the means to finally end the US involvement.
January 1973 the drafting of men into the U.S. armed services for the continued push of the anti-totalitarian war on communism was no longer needed. Americans would no longer face the economically discriminatory policy designed to send poor young men into conflict for the anti-totalitarian war effort. The Selective Service System was suspended on April 1, 1975. though registration was resumed as mandatory in July 1980 under Republican Ronald Regan.
The United States was going to be different according to the anti-establishment liberal viewpoint. There would be an end to military conflict for the sake of some global anti-totalitarian dream. There would be increased freedoms and civil liberties. There would be equality for Blacks and increased awareness of the importance of women’s equal participation in society as a whole.
Forty five years later under continued Conservative ideological political pressure little of this has come true in the fight for personal and racial freedoms. The establishment that was so rebelled against in the 1960s and 1970s has in fact maintain a stranglehold on liberty and freedoms in the US using the impersonation of a democracy preserved by the conservatives. Totalitarian communism fell in the world governments to totalitarian capitalism but a capitalist regime could not be a threat to the GOP, a long proponent of capitalistic governmental rule. Perplexed, they turned inward and named those that continued to strive for the hard won freedoms of the 1960s as enemies of the people and radical leftist. They must be the enemy all along. They turned the finger pointing and blamed the globalism viewpoint of conservatives used for anti-totalitarian wars since the the 60s as caused by enemy globalist liberals. The assertion of unlimited gun rights and internal control of legislative power through gerrymandering and restrictive voting policies are the new conservative tactics. The GOP’s New Rule: White People Can Shoot, But Black People Can’t Vote.
Their youths squandered in a generation that has spent their entire lives in conservative global wars. Continually praised as good Americans and thanked for their service, they never understood the rejections of conservatism by the movements against racial and social injustice or the unnecessary war of killing in Vietnam of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Hidden from them by a conservative political narrative of praise in securing America’s freedom. This has left Americans aligned with the GOP skewed in the viewpoint and lacking inter-social values found in the ‘love’ movements of the 1960s. This created a conservative GOP that has become the Party of Sociopathism. A new social order on the basis of sociopathic actions and false claims by them being expressions of individual freedom.
We often talk about the violence of the river. Yet, we never mention the violence of the banks that contain it. – Bertolt Brecht.
The violent river of US democracy.
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.
The current minimum wage is $7.25 per hour in 14 States with five states having no minimum wage Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi and with Georgia having a minimum wage of $5.15 per hour. Raising it to $15 per hour as proposed by President Biden and the Democratic Caucus is railed against by Republicans as destructive to businesses and would cause mass layoffs. The Republicans hide their activity against the poor under this false flag of business laying off workers because of more expensive labor. This is the Republican’s mantra but in reality they misrepresent how companies work for their own political gain. The simple concept to understand is that businesses are not in the business to go out of business. This is true, even with the majority of profits going to the owners and to support the owner’s lifestyle usually at the expense of the worker.
Many so called ‘Right to Work’ States provide for a company to layoff of workers for no reason whatsoever. This makes it the decision of easiest and least resistance by any business to immediately cut wage costs where they cannot cut fixed costs such as property or payables. If your business depends on labor to provide its profit then this would appear to ring true to a small business owner or uninformed conservative working voter.
The Junior Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul recently said;
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
“The people who lose their jobs first when you hike up the minimum wage are Black teenagers,” said the Kentucky senator. “So, you know, ‘Why does Joe Biden hate Black teenagers?’ should be the question. Why does Joe Biden want to destroy all of these jobs?”2
Senator Rand’s rhetoric plays well in speeches that portray him to the uninformed voting admirers as being a fiscal conservative. Yet, in fact it is the Republican ruse to fool those that believe they are for business as Republicans wage an all out two-front war on poor American workers. It is not about jobs or even about profits. It is about sounding like you are, while creating a Judaeo-Christian image of looking out for the Poor’s jobs.
A study by economist from Princeton University and Charles University in Prague in fact found that what Senator Rand falsely warns against is not what happens. In their study of 10,000 McDondald’s franchises over 300 minimum wage increase from 2016 to 2020 it was found that the cost of labor from increased minimum wages just is passed on to consumers in the form of more expensive products.3 The Owners do not lay off workers but actually pay over the minimum wage to retain workers from competing businesses. The businesses make on average $1.8million per restaurant in the US.4
Corporate America has not been taken in by the Republican attack on the US Hourly Labor Working Poor. McDonald’s executives announced that the company would no longer lobby against minimum wage increases. The president of the US Chamber of Commerce said that he was open to the idea of raising the pay floor.
Large corporations such as Amazon already pay $15 per hour minimum. Amazon states that 26.5% of its employees identify as Black/African American.5 Target pays $15 per hour minimum with 15% Black/African American employees.67 Many others have followed suit to this level or well above the $7.25 wage level. All of these companies are in the business of staying in business.
Of note; the dominant number of states allowing hourly wages below the federal minimum wage level are Republican run states. Workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 1.9 percent of all 82.3 million workers age 16 and older hourly paid workers. That is roughly 1.56 million workers paid the lowest wages.8 272,000 of these are ages 16 to 19 years old. Republican Senator Rand is found this to have slanted his terror commentary alleging Democratic ambivalence toward Black teenagers with the intent to camouflage his attack on the issue. He intends his xenophobic jargon to bring some sort of divisive alarm to his audience that the Democratic advancement of a minimum wage hike is racists. He hides that 1.2 million US workers, not teenagers, are paid at or below the $7.25 minimum wage. This includes 1.16 million white hourly workers, 278,000 Black hourly workers, 70,000 Asian hourly workers and 292,000 Hispanic or Latino hourly workers.8
Republicans opposed wage increased by 199 votes against the 2019 Raise the Wage Act.9 Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who chaired the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in 2019 stated that the committee is not consider the bill. Now that they are in the minority in both houses Republicans, like Senator Rand are trying to justify their attacks on the poor attempts to make a living.
Even candidate President Trump was reviewing the minimum wage increase. When asked he replied; “Wages have gone up more than 3%. That’s a very low number, the $15, and I am actually looking at that. But beyond that, because that’s just an artificial number, much more importantly, because I’d like to get people higher than that.” The fear or worship of Trump has not phased the Republican’s newly found conservatism on this attack since Biden was inaugurated. This is seen in the current debate on Biden’s American Rescue Plan which includes a minimum wage increase .
Republican Senator Joni Ernst said on the Senate floor. “A $15 federal minimum wage would be devastating for our hardest-hit small businesses at a time they can least afford it,” The same false rhetoric as Senator Rand’s without the xenophobia from the Senator that did not know the price needed by her own Iowa’s soybean farmers to remain profitable. Obviously, she does not know about business in Iowa.
The real problem is that not only do Republicans not know what it takes to keep a business in business they attack the effort to make a wage that brings people out of poverty with a vengeance. But It is the effort to attack safety net programs that support the poor that is most underhanded by The Republicans in their two prong attack against the poorest Americans in the name of conservatism.
“Millions of able-bodied, working-age adults continue to collect food stamps without working or even looking for work,” then President Trump said in 2018.10 The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, provides free food to some 40 million Americans, or about 12 percent of the total U.S. population. “Our goal is to move these Americans from dependence to independence and into a good-paying job and rewarding career.” Trump stated.
But what are those jobs? Are they the jobs the Republicans fight against a decent living wage. The answer is absolutely. The Second Front of the Republican War on the Poor is the most powerful and tragic. Republican like to think of themselves as fiscal conservatives. With that they do not like government money spent on helping people. Oh, they may think they give at their church or help the local food bank is worthwhile but to have their tax money spent to help others and not for bombs or themselves is socialism. Just as Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren’s quote on the main page of this blog.
Socialism is political and social philosophy where the state runs/determines production and a range of economic systems in a country. Conservatives in a political sense use the mantra ‘this is Socialism’ when effort is made for a safety net program or letting federal funds to help the poor. The attack goes on and on out of the mouths of Republicans. They have used it since the days of Communism and Iron Curtain days to scare their supporters into compliance with the thought of attacking the poor as lazy dependent individuals who do not share their American dream. Socialist or Communist is the attack phrase used by conservative politicians to attack any and all who want to help the poor. This effort by the Republicans is singularly their closest example of repression of the poor to that of a Military Junta.
Hélder Pessoa Câmara Archbishop of the Diocese of Olinda and Recife from 1964 to 1985
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.” – Hélder Pessoa Câmara
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) warns about their political rivals being in office. “The Senate Democrats would…enact all these crazy socialist … policies.” 11 Joseph McCarthy, another Wisconsin Republican railed against the Red (communist) Menace in the late 1940’s and early 1950s. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) calls Democratic President Biden a corporatists which is both a feint for a call out of socialism as well as an anti-Catholicism incantation.
Any effort to provide for the welfare of the poor is described as socialism by Republicans. While the similarities of this exact style rhetoric compared to authoritarians and dictators in the past century is alarming, it is the message of conservative politics to attack the poor.
Actions can speak louder then words in the case of Republicans use of the deficit created by their own tax cuts to slash the social safety net. In an all out war on the poor, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis) often gave speeches that the GOP plans to cut federal health care and anti-poverty programs because of a deficit.12
As far back as Herbert Hoover (Rep. President 1929-1933) the mantra was the same. He asserted that he cared for common Americans too much to destroy the country’s foundations with deficits and socialist institutions.13 He believed “given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years (under Rep. Calvin Coolidge), we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation”
Herbert Hoover – Republican President 1929-1933
Hoover’s sentiment meant well but did little to stop the onslaught of poverty from overcoming the nation. His approach was to stimulate each state to move to improve their economy and for private sector funds not federal funds. It did not end well and took the Democratic Administration approach of Roosevelt to stop the onset of the country’s slide into poverty.
The Republicans will be quick to point out that in 2019, around 4.2 million fewer people were living in poverty in the US compared with the previous year. This marked the lowest rate of 10.5% of the population in poverty since the 1950s. The Trump administration took over a poverty level already in decline since 2015 from 15% to around 12.7% was quick to brag about the 2 point drop.
The largest drop in poverty in the US came under the leadership of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson and his ‘War on Poverty” initiative. Johnson stated, “Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it”.14 The US poverty rate dropped from 17% to nearly 13%. Almost 4.7 million people were lifted out of poverty. Johnson’s effort established many of the safety net programs of today.
The US may be the richest nation but it continues to struggle with a poverty problem. From February to June 2020:The number of non-elderly individuals living in families with combined weekly earnings below the poverty line rose by 14.1 million (28 percent), from 51.0 million to 65.1 million. The number of children in families with below-poverty earnings rose by 4.9 million (34 percent), from 14.4 million to 19.4 million.15
The Republicans and their politicians will say they support the “War on Poverty” program initiatives. They are ‘Christians after all’ might be the reply. The question is why then are they are conducting a two front assault on governmental efforts to reduce poverty. It is time their is a stop with the charade and start really supporting the effort to ‘banish poverty from this nation,’13
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever. Psalm 9:18
Once again gentle breeze flows from atop the Rocky Mountains down over the plains and out each ocean shore into the world from the US. The breeze, an image of a endless flow of liberty to all men has once again been restored to the United States of America. Those the love or seek freedom can hold their hand up and feel the winds of liberty flowing through their open hands gently tapping at their skin as it curls around their fingers.
Open Hand Monument of Chandigarh. The Open Hand Monument symbolizes “the hand to give and the hand to take; peace and prosperity, and the unity of mankind”
The erasure of the horrors of Donald Trump as President of the United States and the reversal of so many damaging policies of his nationalistic movement to destroy the good will and prosperity of the United States has begun. The final attack of his on the US Capital, that caused the sad deaths of five persons, failed to stop the Democracy in the US from thriving once again.
Already under the Biden-Harris stewardship the US has re-entered the Paris Climate Agreement and stopped the hated symbol of nationalism Trump’s wall. The US re-enters into a committed effort of the health of the world population in the World Health Organization and along with it an effort to help vaccinate the poor nations against the COVID pandemic with the support of COVAX
America is once again a nation that unblinkingly thinks of those less fortunate than her. Those that supported Trump thought they were advancing a Christian cause and were blinded by Trump’s Medicine Man spell as he attacked the world saying that other poorer nations were evil places stealing riches from America.
“Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, ‘Here’s a good seat for you,’ but say to the poor man, ‘You stand there’ or ‘Sit on the floor by my feet,’ have you not discriminated among yourselves and becomes judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him? But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?” James 2:2-6
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.” Matthew 25:35
The United States once again looks at Liberty as a citizen’s of the world rights. No longer thinking of only itself in a nationalistic sense but as a leader of world freedom.
President Trump, left, greets House Ways And Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, the lead author of Republicans’ tax reform plans, before a meeting to discuss the American Health Care Act on March 10 at the White House. Analysts say the GOP’s failure to pass its Obamacare alternative bodes poorly for Brady’s tax package.
A reason for not impeaching Trump
by Congressman Brady
Kevin Brady Member of Congress 8th District of Texas Deputy Whip
Ranking Member, Committee on Ways and Means
Joint Committee on Taxation
January 15, 2021
Thank you for sharing your thoughts regarding impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. I condemn the violent events that took place at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and individuals who participated in these events should be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law. However, any effort to remove President Trump from office will only further divide our country in ways the proponents have failed to fully consider. I will not support impeachment of President Donald Trump.
On January 6, 2021, tens of thousands protested what they perceived to have been election fraud and the failure of so many states to conduct an election in accordance with their own laws. Of the over 100,000 protesters who came to Washington that day to show support for the President, most were peaceful. They gathered near the White House, listened to the President speak and returned to their homes. Unfortunately, a significant number made their way to the Capitol and once there, several hundred rioters, looters, and vandals breached the barriers, broke windows and violently forced their way past police officers injuring many in the process. The violent events that took place were unacceptable and shameful and led to the death of five individuals. One of those who died was U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who valiantly and courageously gave his life to protect the men and women in the United States Capitol. In response to this tragedy, Speaker Pelosi has urged Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment on the grounds that President Trump is unfit to serve as the President of the United States. Further, Speaker Pelosi introduced one article of impeachment, asking for the removal of President Trump for inciting an insurrection.
Those calling for impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment in response to President Trump’s statements this week are themselves engaging in intemperate and inflammatory language and calling for action that is not only irresponsible but could well incite further violence. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to bring America together and be the President of all Americans. With less than eight days until his inauguration, President Trump cannot be removed from office in the next week. President-elect Biden should lead, and he should reject calls to go down this ill-considered path which will only serve to further divide the country.
We have great and important tasks to accomplish soon. We must focus on defeating Covid, rebuilding our economy, and uniting Americans around our shared ideals and principles. I am committed to working together with President-elect Biden to do just that. Thank you for letting me know your opinion. Let’s keep in touch, and if I can be of help in the future, don’t hesitate to let me know.
Sincerely, Kevin Brady U.S. Representative Eighth District of Texas
Official Kevin Brady photograph
The Response to Congressman Brady January 17, 2021
For a man who wins his district by 90%, I am astounded in your statements of who has divisive rhetoric. For four years, because certain Americans have wished for equal justice or medical care equity, the man you are defending , as well as many who supported him in the Legislature, have divided the nation by vilifying fellow Americans calling them radical leftists and communists. This to condition, hold close and incite Trump’s base of voters. Those very voters he threatens to and has unleashed against any GOP politician that would dare to temper him as he desires more power.
Those who have been arrested for storming and attacking the Capital in support of Trump we find are not just fringe loners or isolated white power radicals. They are Real Estate Agents, State Legislatures, ex-military officers, active duty police officers, corporate lawyers and Olympic gold medal winners. Calling these Republican voters as just ‘rioters, looters, and vandals’ and dismissing the underlying reasons that they found themselves breaking the law is at best ingenuous.
My original discussion was not that Trump needed to be removed for political reasons. It was because I realized and even wrote about it in my blog back in 2015, the warning signs of this ‘Man who would be King.’ He used the political process for personal gain and has himself become hypnotized with his power. He turned decent Republicans, some maybe even in your district in support of his cause for this power, into criminals with his destructive rhetoric.
Trump has become the ‘ mystical medicine man’ to Republicans as Carl Jung’s depiction of Hitler was for the Germans. You likely do not agree but ask yourself how such upstanding individuals found themselves marching to the Capital and rushing police officers? Why did they find themselves justified in walking past the broken glass and destroyed doors into the Capitol while others were yelling for the hanging of Vice President Pence. Why did they not do as you termed, just listened ‘to the President speak and returned to their homes?’ They were asked to march of the Capitol by Trump and said in his mystical way, He would protect them ; ‘I will be there with you’
It was because of this ability to propagandize destructive rhetoric and the effects on the Republican party with its 72 million voters that I asked for his removal from the ability to hold office. The continuation of turning the Republican party into this violent arm of his must not be allowed to progress over the next four years. Trump must not be allowed to gather campaign money for his persona profit in a feign for a 2024 election run.
Republican party policies over the years have benefitted myself, no doubt. I would live peacefully as my office colleagues would extol the benefits of Republican policies and senior management would support benefits for Republican candidates including yourself. It was part of the process of growing American values and our democratic nation. Of course, I do not agree with some of the Republican social policies from a standpoint of how God interacts with individuals and that the Government cannot and should not attempt to make that choice for the individual in some vain attempt to provide for their salvation. I do believe in the right of the individual to pursue their own life and their own happiness in the liberty of our Democratic Republic. I do believe this is best done by the representative government of the people of this nation as a whole.
In closing, let me rephrase my original correspondence. I do fear for the destruction of the Republican party, even if you do not, and with it the danger to our Democratic Republic by this man’s quest for power. The most vivid example might be found in the difference between the 2016 Republican platform and that of 2020.
We affirm — as did the Declaration of Independence: that all are created equal, endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Vs
…had the Platform Committee been able to convene in 2020, would have undoubtedly unanimously agreed to reassert the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration
The Republican Party cannot become the party of one man.
Carl Jung ; The other one un-named other ‘Medicine Man.’ leader
US Capital under assault by Trumpian forces January 6, 2021
“I would know by what power I am called hither “
Charles I at his trial January 1649
You attacked the sovereignty of the people by suspending the assemblies of its representatives and by driving them by violence from the place of their sessions. . .
Indictment of Louis XVI December 1792
The trial of Louis XVI, King of France 1792
Donald J. Trump thinks of himself or rather imagines himself as King of the United States. He has talked of his powers to his followers as he has honed them into a personal army that was loyal to him alone. It was on January 6th 2021 when the co-equal branch of government, the US Legislative branch was in session to count and certify the electoral votes certified and submitted by each of 50 states that Trump called upon that army to march upon the legislative branch in an effort to disrupt, stop and overturn his lost election to Joe Biden. The subsequent violence invaded the capital building breaking doors and windows to gain illegal access and sending the legislature including the Vice President running under the cover of guns and gas masks. The Trumpian Army retired from the Capital to return to their homes having succeeded for a few hours in the end in keeping their King without a certified electoral loss however, five people lost their lives from the violence.
Trump and his cohorts plotted well their physical attack by the Executive Branch followers against the Legislature Branch. Trump for weeks sent out messages on Twitter for the army to assemble. He stoked lie after lie about a stolen election even though he failed in court case after court case to present any evidence. It was his word alone that carried his Trumpian army into battle with Congress. Trump had a booth set up in front of the White House as a gathering place where he could speak to them and send them marching on the Capital not unlike Hitler’s march from the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in the Munich Putsch.
The Munich Putsch 1923
Trump and his supporters, Rudy Giuliani, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Trump’s own son Donald Trump Jr. gave speeches of defiance and fighting the legislature. They used words like ‘trial by Combat’, ‘we will not quit fighting’ and ‘fight to the end’ to bless their followers into a patriotic fervor and saying only way to save their freedom and their country was to stop the Legislature in its efforts to certify the electors. They demonized the duly elected President-elect and Vice President-elect for months prior and used their powers to voice cries of being mistreated and lied to their followers about evidence they had obtained. They spent speeches in Georgia employing their last desperate hope would be for Vice President Pence to use powers he did not have to declare the States’ election documents false and anoint Trump as the true president.
Then Trump himself directed to crowd to march upon the Capital. He assured their safety as he lied to the crowd saying he would be marching with them. Then unlike Mussolini and his march on Rome, Trump got in his armored limousine and headed the opposite direction back to the safety of the White House under armed security. He would watch events of his attack on the legislature unfold on television in safety as if he had nothing to do with it.
generic limo photo
The result was a crowd whipped into frenzy believing they were under the protection of the President of the United States along their side. They were ready for a fight thinking they were patriots. Even called as such by the President’s Daughter Ivanka on her Twitter note as they began to storm the Capital looking to stop the Legislature from doing its duty under the law. Chants of ‘find (Vice President) Pence’ rang from the crowd as they broke into the Capital through smashed windows and doors.
So this is not a news story of the event it is a Blog post but the scene on this Putsch set out by Trump in his loss to Biden. It failed as Hitler’s but without the force found in Munich in 1923. Yet, the danger of the event is no less serious both in the reality that it happened and the political danger to the Democratic Republic of the United States. Trump has set the scene for years in exile and for him to build on his struggle against the unjust secret powers that removed him from office after one 4 year term. He as already called for his entire voting base of 72 million to look in the future and not give up hope on the struggle to save their democracy. Twitter removed his account calling that a call to arms.
Left alone for the next four years Trump will write his struggles in rants and posts. He will wield enormous political power as he claims he was wrongly removed from office. He has already begun to set the seed for his return re-election and for the end of the 22nd Amendment term limits on a President.
This danger is why Trump must be treated as Louis XVI or James I in a political sense, not the physical. He must be removed and banned not just from Twitter but from holding federal office ever again.
The Legislature cannot fight over it’s petty political scramble for any political power being left by the lost election by Trump. He is not going to anoint/approve a successor as long as he can claim the throne. That is not in his nature as his jailed personal lawyer Cohen explained to Congress a year ago. Despite the efforts of Mr. Hawley to usurp the Trump power, he cannot and now has blood on his hands for enabling the Putsch event. Hawley will become a pawn in Trump’s return by remaining a loyal officer in his guard of the patriotic army.
The Legislative Branch founded this Country in the 1700’s. Those in it participated in the writing revision and approval of the Constitution. Let’s pray that the Legislative Branch of the 2000’s has not lost sight of the true sense of Freedom and Democracy. Those founding members of the Legislative Branch formed the Presidency out of the need for a fluid Government. They fought hard to put in protections against a fraudulent demagogue who fools the common man. So now is the time for men to put Democracy and Country above party. The Legislature must protect our Democracy from these demagogues. The revolution is not in the streets but in the Congress.
From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend
There is little to no representation in the US Republic for any minority viewpoint. There is nothing but winner take all and suppressive denial of the minority. This may sound like a harsh judgement but in fact it has become the very nature of a country built on a concept of the good nature and joint ideals of a not so diverse populace. This type of Republic set forth by the founders has created an evil and terrible menace upon the people of the United States. It has set them up for continual conflict and division. Nobody that votes against the majority in their area has any representation of their idea of freedom, values or views.
I have for the majority of my adult life been in an area that votes approximately 20% for one party while the 80% win every election and set every policy based on their viewpoint regardless of the 20% needs, values or requirements. I have by this fact never had a political viewpoint of mine represented in the US government. It is this type of government that has all but destroyed the notion of democracy in the United States. It is a tyranny of the winner against the minority view. There is no reason for the majority to listen or acquiesce to the need of the minority. There is no proportional voice for the minority voters. The winners get the only voice and all decisions.
This phenomenon is true down to the smallest level of political office in US politics. It has become even more acute as the ruling parties change the rules locally to support themselves (i.e. gerrymandering of districts to support their party’s dominance) and as an example the US Senate to only require a simple majority for most votes. They therefore, do not have to listen to the minority at all to decide judicial direction as well as legislative direction. This winner take all has led to a Civil War as well as several destructive periods in US civil life. One of which is currently appearing to be driven towards becoming almost fatal to the Republic.
Segmentation of political thought in US Politics.
The United States are in fact no longer united. It has become so factional and to a point almost directly in half that it has created a volatile scenario of us versus them. The left-right political spectrum has become defined in a prismatic division of clear political loyalty lines with unclear definition of policy. President Trump in his efforts to stay in power has create an even higher level of division with his voter fraud stranglehold on one of the more powerful US political parties. All aligned political thought, actions and funding of this party is driving towards the goal of remaining in power despite the loss at the polls by claiming fraud and dishonesty of the opposition thereby creating a disenfranchisement of voter’s good political sportsmanship. The power in the US is absolute either win the election or have no voice is the nature of the American political system.
The struggle for a political view to win in this all or nothing US Republic is no less than having the ability, as in the French Revolution, to cut the King’s head off or be vanquished then imprisoned by a state. A state that does not look at you as a valuable contributor to society but rather as a danger to it.
So as with the original colonies and depicted in the 1745 Benjamin Franklin cartoon of a snake cut into colonial segments, the colonies had to unite to express its political view against the British King and parliament or die . So too does political thought in the US have to align to win representation in the US or die with no political power to have it’s viewpoint affect the political nature of the United States.
The Founding Fathers had no idea of the flawed corrupting system they created . Their political viewpoints though varied in nature were united in the creation of a new country. They were united in the common history of the struggle to leave the United Kingdom. They were united in a extremely similar ethnic, religious and social viewpoint. Something that has not been the case in an America of the 20th and 21st Centuries that has seen decades of migratory, social and financial class dilution.
This dilution has pushed political thought in America to review and compensate because of the social upheaval caused by the political majority’s ignoring the issues faced by the diverse population. In some cases, a political party can ignore the viewpoint because of their political power and face civil unrest and in others they can enjoin the political viewpoints to link up the body of the snake so that a particular party can win and rule.
This linking of the political viewpoint snake to win political representation is often thought to be a democratic process but it is not. It is worse, as the larger of the parties very often ignores the representation of political viewpoints of the political viewpoint allies. The ally’s political viewpoint gains no voice in the government directly and must remain subordinate to have any hope of influencing the viewpoint narrative. This is not a democracy but a political view dictatorship without consequences for the ruling party. There is little or no repercussions for the dominant party ignoring the minorities political views. The ally political view can be quickly disavowed and disenfranchised if it comes under attack by the opposition. No vote needs to be won or lost to affect any change during a party’s term in power of their singular viewpoint being presented into governing. There is no coalition, oversight or balance required to maintain a varied political view of all those represented during governance.
This failure to represent the political views of the entire nation has fragmented US politics very similarly to the pre-World War II Weimar Republic. The Germans solved this political viewpoint problem when they formed their government after WWII. They did not follow the American system created by the US founders of a winner take all system that required extremely strong political parties. This is what they had and failed miserably in the 1930s. Germany formed a coalition style government. This allows political parties with more than 5% of the vote to have an direct representation of their viewpoint in the government. The individual voter gets true proportional representation. The larger party cannot ignore the viewpoints of the smaller parties and with it the viewpoints of the people who voted for them if the lager party needs the party to create the larger united snake to rule.
Without true representation, each American finds that he suffers from no representation by this Congressman, Senator, Governor or President. The large American parties have become de facto kings, who are fighting over a crown. They fail to represent the political viewpoints fairly and diversely enough to truely represent the people in the US. The voters have limited choices of two kings to represent their viewpoints. This becomes similar to the War of the Roses in English history. The two kings fight and fail to govern until one is vanquished and the opponents slain. This is not Democracy but political viewpoint Autocracy in the US. It is time to change the US to a representative Republic before it dies.
The use of the White House by the Republican has indicted the entire party. The Republican Party is glorifying Trump using a house built with the use of enslaved Blacks. He angrily yells “we are here and they are not” and in that the White House was now owned by the Republicans and not remaining Americans walking on the Street. The Republican are practicing Schadenfreude almost calling for more riots to make their case. Republicans hide behind authoritarianism and IL-Liberalism while they fail to ask their elected party leader to pass legislation to change the local prejudice policies that militarize police, give them freedom from legal scrutiny after they commit violent acts and fails to provide for the environment that achieves equity of treatment. The Republicans have turned the White House Red
Interesting isn’t? Trump is saying he want’s his followers to cheer the destruction of the 22nd Constitutional Amendment. He is starting the preparation for a Putin like reconstruction of the constitution to suit his continued rule. His fan cheer adoringly, not unlike those who cheered the speeches of wonderful things for Germany or Italy to come by the German or Italian leaders (and their party) in the 1930’s.
Trump makes references to Venezuela and Cuba to invoke visions of failed states to induce fear in his followers of something that would not and could not, in reality, happen. But Trump is a master of deception and innuendoes just like his 1930’s counterparts. Do not put it past the Republican sycophants when this happens to stand up for the destruction of the 22nd Constitutional Amendment. Just as Putin recently had the Russian constitution changed so that he can stay in as president for the next 32 years (life de facto), Trump will push for his followers to the brink for his individual advantage.
This, despite the fact that the Republicans were the emphasis behind the 22nd Amendment itself; but that was when the Republicans were quite different ideologically. Before the party began to embrace racial injustice against white skin color as a ‘good people’ cause. Before the party began to believe in IL-Liberal Capitalism as a method of sustained power. Reagan started a third term campaign that became irrelevant when he started having memory issue. There is little to stop Trump from reviving that effort to retain power.
In one aspect Trump’s prediction may be correct. The US may turn into Venezuela if the minority win party attempts to hold onto power for a third term with the dissolution of 22nd amendment by the Republican efforts. Trump will be the US’s Nicolás Maduro or if you prefer Benito Mussolini as the successor to George Washington.
There are four things that George Washington famously wrote, June 8 1783, that were essential to the well being of The United States of America.
The indissoluble union of the states under one federal head
A sacred regard to public justice
The adoption of a proper peace establishment
The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies; to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity; and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
Washington pointed out that these were needed for the existence of the United States as an independent power. He further declared that these pillars were the fabric of the United States independent national character. Whoever, “would dare to sap the foundation, or overrun the structure, under whatever specious pretext he may attempt it, will merit the bitterest excretions and the severest punishment which can be inflicted by his injured country”
The words stand on their own in condemnation of Trump and his efforts to destroy these pillars of our union as the United States. Trump’s attacks, for reason of personal power, use the individual prejudices within the nation to divide and further undermine the foundations upon which these pillars stand is self evident.
The current state of attacks and looting that occur alongside marches for general prosperity of Black people and protests against federal troops in Portland are only examples of the bitterest excretions and severest punishment on Trump who has injured our country with his disregard to care for these pillars while president.
ABSOLUTA LIBERTAS 