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rhiannon55

(2,669 posts)
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:23 PM Jan 2020

Republicans have always wanted one-party rule. They're almost there.

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If and when the Republicans vote to acquit Trump, democracy as we know it will die. While we mourn its death, Republicans will celebrate and dance on its grave. They will finally have what they’ve wanted for years, one-party rule. They can rig and even cancel elections and stay in power forever, and I’m sure they will do it.

When they use the phrase “the American people”, they are not talking about us. They are there to serve the extremely wealthy who financed their campaigns, and to become extremely wealthy themselves. They don’t want to have to compete for their highly lucrative jobs every two or four or six years.

For years they’ve used Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones, among others, as State media to demonize Democratic politicians who keep destroying their dream of one-party rule. When (most) Democratic leaders use the term “the American people”, they DO mean us. Beginning with FDR’s New Deal, Democrats have long fought for programs that help us have a better standard of living and a more just society, programs that many of the extremely wealthy don’t want to help pay for. And since (until now) one-party rule has been out of their reach, they’ve had to gain and keep their power by cheating in elections and by using lies and propaganda to turn the American people (us!) against the very party that exists to help us live better lives. Sadly, they have been amazingly successful.

I am holding on to a tiny sliver of hope that there will be four brave Republican senators who will stand up with their Democratic compatriots and vote for witnesses, turning this farce into an actual trial. At least then, truth would have more of a chance to be spoken and heard. And if those witnesses turned the tide and allowed Trump to finally be held accountable for his crimes, those four senators would forever be heroes for saving our democracy.

If they don’t, I’m afraid the 243-year-old American Experiment will be over.

I shudder to think about what comes next. I fear our democratic republic will quickly become an autocracy and our lives will become much more difficult than they are now. I pity the young people who will have to live with the consequences of this Republican/corporate coup for many more years than I will. I’ll probably have left this life before the earth is completely destroyed by these greedy, reckless fools and their counterparts around the world.

But my children and your children will still be here, trying to live the best lives they can in a very changed--more impoverished and less free--society. I wish Trump’s voters would understand what they have unleashed on our country: a president who wields absolute power because no one will stop him. He obviously has great respect for dictators, and now he’ll get to be one, too.

He said he wanted to run America like a business. Welcome to America, Inc.



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Republicans have always wanted one-party rule. They're almost there. (Original Post) rhiannon55 Jan 2020 OP
I don't know... Kali Jan 2020 #1
Dr. Seuss recognized them in 1942 ... Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2020 #2
It's not gonna happen walkingman Jan 2020 #3
Kicking for the evening crowd. rhiannon55 Jan 2020 #4
Until the Pump & Dump crash comes, then they will begging Nancy for help to save the country. WyattKansas Jan 2020 #5

Kali

(54,990 posts)
1. I don't know...
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:27 PM
Jan 2020

they would have to have the sham trial thrown in their face every single day forever after...

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
5. Until the Pump & Dump crash comes, then they will begging Nancy for help to save the country.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 08:51 PM
Jan 2020

And then they will expect a Democratic President to put the economy back together. *

* Original Constitutional Law will apply and the Democratic President will be investigated relentlessly for loony shit someone makes up to put their base into a frenzy. 'And never forget The Benghazi!'

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