WHERE IS THE GOP TAKING AMERICA? AND FOR WHAT?

Irony is not dead quite yet it seems. The GOP, whose clarion call is ‘We’re color-blind. We don’t need DEI or Affirmative Action or any other woke level-playing field metric because racism is dead to us’, has had affirmation handed to them by SCOTUS. Whose decision yesterday basically gutted the Voting Rights Act, allowing political representation fought for by years of civil rights battles to be diminished in one fell swoop. Now majority-minority regions in the south and elsewhere can be gerrymandered with impunity. Can be diced and sliced to ensure Republican dominance even in areas that have shown time and time again that’s not what voters want. I guess you could say SCOTUS handed the GOP the greatest DEI gift yet. That is if you define DEI like the GOP does by saying it’s an unfair awarding of success where it’s not due. Americans count on our votes actually being able to select the leadership we want. We want leadership that reflects what we actually want and believe in. Not leadership that forces us take something we don’t want and calling it a mandate. Instead, the GOP will now giddily continue the quest for domination through manipulation of every democratic system in order to achieve success. Even though we the people don’t want the product peddled. Would you still call that democracy? Is it a satisfying success to gain power achieved through putting a thumb on the scale? But not because you’re what the people actually want? Something really bad is going on in America. Starkly illustrated by the royal visit going on in DC this week. Our president basically gave a speech about blood and soil and how America’s history is more an example of gene pool and primal warfare than any lofty democratic ideals. And that a new golden age of anything goes just because we’re America and we’re always right is coming. You don’t like it, tough. While the King Of England, from whose country we fought to free ourselves, gave a speech based on the theories of enlightenment, of striving to be part of the family of man, of a world united in mutual respect and the rule of law. Citing their Magna Carta as the basis for American democracy. America seems to be deliberately diminishing the higher ideals and principles we’ve always held ourselves to. We’re becoming petty and vindictive. And backward looking to a mythologized vision of America that never existed. While looking towards a future that is dehumanizing to our citizens. And disdainful to the entire concept of democracy. Instead we’re being sold on an elite ruling the country as a private-equity business, run by AI, based on the fantasy of bitcoin, and where pernicious capitalism is the savior. And only the rich know what’s best for the rest of us. Where no one in power is accountable to anyone. Because voting will become just another authoritarian farce. Time will tell if it works or not. Is it any wonder our country is so depressed? And angry?