Those of you who’ve seen my Facebook postings in
recent months have heard me wonder repeatedly: “Where are the good Republicans?” My naive assumption being, while parties may
disagree diametrically on the issues, at the core we all want the same thing -
the greater good of the American people.
If that ever was the case in American politics, it certainly ain’t
now.
The recent appointment to the Supreme
Court of an intemperate and clearly politically biased, not to mention somewhat
paranoid, individual, despite the very valid and mostly ignored concerns about
his fitness for the hallowed office - and worries about all that his lifetime
appointment portends for a diverse America - sad to say, has left me disillusioned
(as in stripped of my illusions). The
national Republican leadership has no higher purpose than to keep power and
advance a retro rich, white, male agenda at any cost. Lies, manipulation, distortion, attacks on
vital American institutions, like our free press and the FBI and the Justice
Department, are all acceptable means to achieve their power-mongering and
avaricious ends. Why did it take me so
long to understand, yes, Virginia, there are downright evil people in this world,
in this country? Duh.
The reality must be faced that there is no
reason to believe that the last major confederacy of cold, cruel, conscience-less
men - the hierarchy of the Nazi Party in Germany 80 years ago - could not recur,
this time here in America. We have a
leader who openly admires dictators. We
have a Republican majority that would gladly appoint him President for
Life. And now we have a Supreme Court
which may not be able to stand up to any such travesty.
All that’s needed now is a Trumped-up national
emergency during which Constitutional protections can be suspended for the
higher goal of restoring “law and order.”
To quote the notorious line from a film about a human transforming into
a monstrous fly: "Be afraid; be very
afraid."
