You can’t win with liars and thieves; liars and thieves are exactly what the rightwing racist, fascist, xenophobes you call the Republicans really are.
The very essence of democratic governance is that each party must play by the game’s rules regardless of how many there are. As in sports, the rules are set, competitors compete, winners win, losers try again next time.
It is a system in sports that brings out the best in humans, the struggle to compete, the thrill of the game, and when we lose, we pick ourselves up and get right back in the game next time.
Politics is like a game; the players are supposed to observe the rules, color within the lines- win or lose.
The Republican Party, which became a fascist right-wing political party after the 1964 signing of the Civil Rights Act, is now fully a party of disaffected whites who see their special privileges slipping away. And so they have taken up their ball and left the game.
They have completely given up on the concept of democratic governance, just as well; the party was always a party of bloviating pompous white men who carved out set-asides for themselves and erected barricades so that no one else got to play in the game in which they compete against themselves and declare themselves winners and the greatest.
They pretended to be the toughest on crime but showed no capacity for mercy.
They claimed to be about law and order, but they lacked the capacity to ensure justice was preserved in the process.
They claim to be fiscal conservatives, hawkish over public spending. Yet they oppose taxpayers’ money feeding hungry babies but spend trillions on armaments of war, some the military will never use and never ask for.
They tout family values but only values white families. They claim to be Christians but are deficient in the single greatest building block of the faith, ‘love,’ except for those who look like themselves.
There is now a palpable fear taking hold of the Right-wing party; it caused them to embrace and support a lying Charlatan for president. The party is now an openly white supremacist movement headed by the same lying charlatan and populated with Qanon conspiracists and Russian supporting traitors.
The party has blocked an American president from appointing a supreme court justice as he was constitutionally empowered to do and later appointed three lackeys of their own even as they scream how undemocratic it is to consider adding more justices to the court to rectify the imbalance their dishonesty created.
All of this because the nation was once totally run and controlled by white men, elected a black man to the presidency, and Blacks now occupy various powerful roles, men and women.
As shocking as that has been, the idea that white women are not producing enough babies to counter the surge in Black and brown births scares them even more.
They have given up totally on governing by consensus. They have embarked on undemocratic processes- a‑la voter suppression laws, aided by their functionaries on the highest court who eviscerated the 1965 voting rights act, restrictions on who gets to vote, and even criminalized handing a potential voter standing in line to vote a drink of water.
These laws come from the twisted minds of ‘human-like’ degenerates.
The fight is now totally about stopping people of color from entering the country and ending the well-established law Roe Vs. Wade, which gives women autonomy over their own bodies.
In 2012 the Pew Research center reported that the nation’s racial and ethnic minority groups — especially Hispanics — are growing more rapidly than the non-Hispanic white population, fueled by immigration and births. This trend has been taking place for decades, and one result is the Census Bureau’s announcement that non-Hispanic whites now account for a minority of births in the U.S. for the first time.
Consequently, their rationale is to force white women to have more babies, even the offspring of rapists; they want all white babies hence the assault on Roe V Wade.
On the other end of the spectrum, they are totally against America continuing to be what it has been for over two hundred years- a place where refugees and immigrants are welcome. However, the palpable hatred they harbor against immigrants is confined to black and brown people; all whites are welcome.
The moron they elected president once referred to non-European countries as shit-hole countries. He asked why weren’t more people from Norway coming to the United States — ask that moron to show you Norway on the map, and he would have no clue. But he is only a part of the problem; in times of serious tumult, Black and brown people are turned away, but tens of thousands of white Europeans are now welcome, no questions asked. Yet, they dared to ask Ketanji Brown-Jackson if America is a racist country?
The American democratic process is in grave danger. At its core, it is challenging for democracy to survive in a nation of 330 million people, yet with only two major political parties.
Additionally, the Democratic party lacks the strength and fortitude of the Republicans. The Democrats are a loose throw-together of liberal whites, Blacks, Some Hispanics, native people, gays, union workers, etc. The latter was once a strong force in democratic politics, not so anymore; Republicans at the state level have completely defanged blue-collar unions.
Politics is a contact sport, and the Democrats are losing and losing badly. They are making nice with a party that has no intention of competing on a level playing field. But the racism within the Republican Party is not confined to them alone.
Not a single white Democratic senator stood up and defended Ketanji Brown-Jackson like Will smith defended Jada.
Ok, that may have been a bridge too far, but you get what I mean, right ?.….save for Booker and Padilla, two men of color, absent were all of the white men.
It seems, therefore, when the rubber meets the road, all white males are the same insecure, selfish, and petulant little b******s.
The out-of-control elephant is not just making a mockery of the Jackass; he is trying to make fools of us all.
Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective; he’s a businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.