I don’t know if you are watching, but [a] poison has been poured out in America that has so polarized the country that the nation’s national security is greatly compromised.
It has nothing to do with the two political parties and everything to do with one party; the Republican party.
The Republican and the Democratic Parties in the latter part of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st century basically could be viewed as only slightly different in ideology.
That was up until Al Gore won the elections in Florida and the Republican majority on the Supreme court under William Rehnquist stopped the count in Florida where George Bush’s younger Jeb was Governor and appointed George Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
George Bush served two terms despite being a horrible president; the events of September 11th, 2001, would have solidified in place any Republican in the White House. The Republican party is about arrogance, bravado, and launching foreign wars; when they do, the entire Republican establishment coalesces around the president — the Democrats march in lockstep like sheep being herded to be slaughtered.
For Decades the Republicans wrapped themselves in the American flag and claimed that they were the true patriots in the country. They launched wars and made foreign policy their touchstone; it worked as the bulk of the people living in rural states, many of whom have never traveled outside their county of birth, believed that people in other countries are there to be bombed into oblivion when they see fit.
Afraid of being labeled unpatriotic, the Democrats allowed themselves to be herded along, in a Republican-lite ideological no-man’s-land, lukewarm, neither hot nor cold-problem is that nobody likes lukewarm.
The tragic irony of ironies is that the Republican party that fraudulently claimed to be [patriots]is the party that waged war on the American process to install a demented old psychopath into the presidency for life.
L. Michael Tompkins, EdD. is a psychologist at the Sacramento County Mental Health Treatment Center, argues a key difference between a psychopath and a sociopath is whether he has a conscience, the little voice inside that lets us know when we’re doing something wrong.
A psychopath doesn’t have a conscience. If he lies to you so he can steal your money, he won’t feel any moral qualms, though he may pretend to. He may observe others and then act the way they do, so he’s not “found out,” Dr. Tompkins said.
Hmm, seems all of the points to prove are in order. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a psychopathic duck!
Notwithstanding where American is today, a mere two decades or so ago, the majority of Americans considered themselves patriotic citizens, and they were.
They would never imagine themselves storming the Capitol building to hang the vice-president of the United States so that they may overturn the legitimate results of an election, in order to install a psychopathic demented King.
No, they fundamentally did not want a King; they believed, as George Washington did, that they should not have a King because those were the founding principles of individual liberty on which the United States was established.
But the demented psychopathic would-be king did not unleash the unpatriotic poison in America. Being the conniving opportunist he is, he merely took advantage of the hatred and animus unleashed by Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin came on the scene during the 2008 presidential campaign, unleashed to bring life into the campaign of John McCain, who was running against the first African-American to be nominated by any political party in the country to be its standard-bearer. That man, Barack Hussien Obama, would become the 44th President of the United States.
Sarah Palin is a racist dunce, much like Donald Trump. Still, the Republican Party did not care that they were literally putting a total misfit a mere heartbeat from the nuclear codes; as far as Mitch McConnell and his cronies were concerned, they did not care who the populist was, as long as that person could win them the executive Mansion.
It was enough that the person could draw breath to smear a mirror they would do to sign their poison pill legislations.
Truth be told, it started with Ronald Reagan, a third-rate actor who was a smidge more constrained with his racism than Donald Trump. The dumbing down of America was well on the way to becoming the strategy of the GOP.
A total fealty to guns and religion, added to a blatant and idiotic disregard for science and the truth, cemented the party as a backwater political movement that has no relevance in the 21st century. It had fully morphed into an all-out white supremacist political party…
They did not care too much about the intellectual Herbert Walker Bush, but the “aw-shucks” incompetence of his son George was right up their alley.
So George W Bush, Sarah Palin, and Donald Trump give us a better perspective on how Marjorie Taylor-Green, Lauren Bobert, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, and others could have joined the usual imbeciles like Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert, and Steve King in the congress.
We do not have a Democratic nation when one of the two political parties is dead set on cheating, changing the rules to give itself unfair advantages-and the other political party is as feckless as Barney Fyffe, the cop of the fictional Mayberry.
The unfortunate thing for the world’s oldest democracy is that this is no Mayberry.
This is a house on fire seriousness. The Republican party marches in lock-step to overturn voting rights- the touchstone of any democracy.
The minority party’s insistence on preventing some people from voting, aided by the nation’s highest court, places the nation’s social order in grave danger.
Whether the majority of the American people will sit idly by and allow a minority of the population to push the nation into totalitarianism is yet to unfold.
That is the greatest threat facing America today, white racism encapsulated and cocooned into the Republican party.
…Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.