I Hate Politics

There used to be a time when people could wake up in the morning, and think, "What good could I accomplish today- what could our nation's people do by coming together, to make this a better country?  Not that long ago, there was a reason to approach politics as one of the great ways to make this world better.

No more.  Not in this country, anyway. The Republican party has seen to that.  They have destroyed the ability of government to do a single good thing.  Today, we wake up every day to face nothing but the latest in an endless string of Republican atrocities; to face an unending struggle to undo the latest abomination perpetrated on the American people by the Republican party.  

Consider just a few examples from the last week:

Texas Judge corruptly rules that an abortion pill is harmful:  Despite all the scientific evidence and despite a 23 year history of safe use of this drug, he claimed corruptly, and without a shred of evidence, that he had the right to ban it.  This is not primarily a blow against women; the real intent is to destroy the notion that rulings from Republican judges need to be based on facts, but can just as well be based on the most loathsome self-serving political calculations.  

Jim Jordan threatens Prosecutor Bragg, clearly intending to force Bragg to reveal the prosecution's deliberations, with the intention of turning the information over to Trump, in an act of unbridled corruption.

Two black men who dared to speak out for gun control were kicked out of the Tennessee legislature in an act of open corruption by the Republican majority in the legislature.  Yeah, they are back now, at least for a while, but this is still an act of open fascists.

Texas Governor Abbot threatens to pardon convicted murderer because he killed a liberal protester.  This man was found guilty of murder for gunning down a protester in full public view, but Abbot intends to establish the principle that it is acceptable for Republicans to kill Democrats who oppose them.  We know perfectly well where that will lead.

Clarence Thomas, who has been an openly corrupt Justice since his being foisted onto the Supreme Court, has now been revealed to have criminally accepted millions of dollars in favors from a billionaire who is an open fan of the Nazis.

James Comer, who is leading the House persecution of President Biden, is unable to cite a single Biden misdeed, despite devoting his life to putting the Bidens in prison.

...And all of this, and a hundred more examples, are happening to the unstoppable drone of Donald Trump's endless, vicious, hate filled lies.

And don't think this is an accident of history.  The Republican party, which is apparently  incapable of coming up with an honest solution to a single one of our nation's problems, is absolutely brilliant at discovering new piggish ways to throw monkey wrenches in the gears of progress, eating up every scrap of energy decent people have to devote to fixing things.  This is so painful and draining, that even people as politically obsessed as myself have nearly reached a point where we are just not able to take it any more, posing the risk that Republicans will create a country in which only those with the most barbaric instincts rule our country.  

I am worried that a lot of us do not even have the energy to reach to November, 2024.  As frightening as the prospect is, a massive enough effort by the dying Republican party to corrupt the electoral process could once more succeed in placing Donald Trump or someone even worse in the White House.  That would be, I am confident, the last election this country will ever see, with what follows looking very much like the Reichstag and the Enabling Acts of 1933. Tell me that I am wrong, but you'd better have a good argument, because that's how things look right now.