The idea that some voters would talk out of the side of their mouths about crime and inflation as the seminal issues for them going into the midterms is the highest hypocrisy and ignorance.
For starters, their hero, the lying traitor Donald Trump caused the death of over half a million Americans because he decided that denying COVID-19 was a better strategy than addressing the pandemic head-on.
Donald Trump’s crimes and incompetence caused voters to kick him and his criminal cabal out of office, upon which they attempted the nation’s first coup de tat.
The Democrats and Joe Biden brought the economy back from the brink, and though it wasn’t as dramatic as what Barack Obama was forced to contend with after the débâcle of George Bush’s 8 years. Still, the nation was in serious peril as tens of millions of people were forced to stay home as the pandemic raged.
Joe Biden and the Democrats mailed out billions in stimulus checks to feed the hungry ingrates who will bite the hands that fed them on Tuesday.
Biden and the Democrats passed the inflation reduction act that the fascist republicans opposed en masse. It was the right-wing reactionaries on the supreme court that overturned 49 years of precedent on precedent in the Dobbs decision.
Rising inflation, including the price of gas which has trended downward over the last several weeks, is tied to Putin’s war in Ukraine and the war the fascist republicans would like to see Vladimir Putin win. The price of food increases may also be attributed to grain disruptions due to Putin’s barbaric and illegal war on another sovereign nation.
Even if one was to disregard everything positive that the Democrats did, the events of January 6th, 2021, should have been enough for an informed, intelligent electorate to say, ‘you will not be allowed near power anytime soon until all you traitors to America are weeded out and punished for your crimes.
The reality is that, despite the intransigence and crimes, the xenophobic, Islamaphobic, transphobic, homophobic, anti-semitic, and hateful lies and vitriol that Donald Trump and his cronies have poured out into the body politic poisoning the entire country, enough Americans will turn out and empower them because Trump and the Republican party embodies their beliefs in white supremacy.
There is this quote attributed to the late British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, though some sources contend that it was first coined by an Israeli, Abba Eban, who was an Israeli politician and diplomat who was on a diplomatic trip to Japan when he made the comments in 1967.
“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities”.
Regardless of who was first on record to make the statement, I think there is no time that this statement has been truer than at this particular period in American history.
Unfortunately, for America, when the full reality of Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s fascism dawns on them, it will be because they voted for it as the Germans voted for it, culminating in the slaughter of 3 million people of Jewish faith and the lives of 73 million as a result of Hitler’s war.
These are people who see the danger in front of their faces yet turn away and claim that what is more important than a woman’s right to self-determination, voting rights, the strengthening of democracy, saying no to autocratic rule, etc. is cheap food prices and tanks filled with cheap gas.
If that is what they are saying, as argued ad nau. se.am by the corporate media, then America is on a slippery slope of no return.
The tragedy inherent in America’s slide into autocratic rule is that so many other nations are tethered to her that it may drag them all under the deep dark waves of despotism from which there is no return.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.