Bugsy McGurk
President
A great question to ask during this Independence Day weekend.
Trump and his cult, including his white supremacist base, were already wigging out because Trump’s attempted coup failed. Things weren’t going well for them politically, so they have relentlessly attacked our democracy.
But along comes the SCOTUS, illegally stacked by the GOP. The wingers couldn’t achieve their goals politically, so the SCOTUS wingers did it for them, taking a meat ax to things like voting rights, privacy rights, efforts to avoid global warming catastrophe, etc. Forget about what the majority want, say the SCOTUS 6 - the minority rules, with decisions now to be made by six right wing wackjobs. This, of course, enrages the majority of Americans who deplore such rulings and do not want to live under the thumb of the crazed right wing minority.
So here we are. The nation was already incredibly polarized, and the illegally stacked SCOTUS has made things MUCH, much worse.
The nation is near a boiling point, as the Director of Homeland Security has testified…
I wish there was some way out of this atrocious mess created by the right wing, but there isn’t. They want the mess. They want the conflict. They would be happy with a civil war. So they are not about to cede any of the rights they have suppressed. Indeed, they support taking some more. They hate majority, democratic rule, because they know they are a distinct minority.
In other words, the nation seems screwed. Hold on.
Trump and his cult, including his white supremacist base, were already wigging out because Trump’s attempted coup failed. Things weren’t going well for them politically, so they have relentlessly attacked our democracy.
But along comes the SCOTUS, illegally stacked by the GOP. The wingers couldn’t achieve their goals politically, so the SCOTUS wingers did it for them, taking a meat ax to things like voting rights, privacy rights, efforts to avoid global warming catastrophe, etc. Forget about what the majority want, say the SCOTUS 6 - the minority rules, with decisions now to be made by six right wing wackjobs. This, of course, enrages the majority of Americans who deplore such rulings and do not want to live under the thumb of the crazed right wing minority.
So here we are. The nation was already incredibly polarized, and the illegally stacked SCOTUS has made things MUCH, much worse.
The nation is near a boiling point, as the Director of Homeland Security has testified…
Homeland Security chief: ‘We are in a heightened threat environment’ — POLITICO
The country is on edge because of extremist rhetoric and real threats, Alejandro Mayorkas said.
apple.news
I wish there was some way out of this atrocious mess created by the right wing, but there isn’t. They want the mess. They want the conflict. They would be happy with a civil war. So they are not about to cede any of the rights they have suppressed. Indeed, they support taking some more. They hate majority, democratic rule, because they know they are a distinct minority.
In other words, the nation seems screwed. Hold on.