Our Lost Democracy

The Washington Post prints quality stories, and they have improved.  The new editor-in-chief is proving to have integrity.  Often a day after I blog about an issue, an article will appear reporting upon a similar thing.  This makes you feel like democracy is working.  It is the only thing, freedom of the press.  With an upcoming election the decadence is rife.  Local news broadcasts are spattered with pro Trump political ads, and they are low brow, pathetic, and misleading.  Many are blatant lies.  The same tired rhetoric about building a wall, fixing the economy, and making America great fail to resonate after the Covid debacle.  Always there will be MAGA extremists, and their profile is the same as before.  They are threatened, uneducated, white men wanting their country back.  The populace has matured, and Trump candy no longer can tempt the babies.  When you are trying to provide for your family, rear literate children, and prosper no one has time to fixate upon racism. Discrimination is alive and well, and SCOTUS proved that.  There are no more racial quotas in the university system.  Opportunity in America always will be an issue.  Do we want to sublimate into a nation of tribal wars with gang violence and hand to hand combat?  America is splintering, and it is worse after the Donald Trump presidency.  We had problems, but Barack Obama was a virtuous leader.  The country held together under his presidency.  If Donald Trump's plan is to make America great again, it is with a devolution to Jim Crow segregation.  Given a choice I'm sure he would reinstate slavery, along with other extreme members of the GOP.  He proved this time and time again hiring workers, exploiting their labor, and refusing them payment.  He thought they were slaves.  If you vote for Donald Trump in 2024, you are voting for white supremacy.  This may seem exciting as a television pilot, but we are talking reality, not fantasy.  Donald watched a lot of television, and he has difficulty discerning the difference.  Watching Mitch McConnell concede his Senate leadership position is like watching a bigot gracefully step aside avoiding persecution.  He and what he represents are what have made America what it is today.  No longer are we a nation governed by the people.  We are governed by a small group of wealthy autocrats who are concerned only with advancing their own personal interests.  "Democracy is in peril is the headline," but we all ready have lost it.  We are not governred by the people, because those we elect to represent us are seditious.  Donald Trump is a traitor to America.  We have not ruled ourselves since his electing.  Mitch is the prime example of ignoring the people.  Yes, he represents a constituency in Kentucky, but that constituency is not our people.  It is a polarized group of elitists clinging to the ideals of America's racist past.  Donald Trump is Jim Crow Jr.  When we see only decline, crime, and inequality, then we know we are not being represented.  When government makes it more difficult for you to canvas their work, that is when you know they are not looking out for you.  Changing a city council meeting time to keep the public out is wrong.  Joe Biden's infrastructure legislation has allocated money for states and cities, and these local officials are like kids in the candy store.  Tennis complexes.  Baseball stadiums.  The streets are full of pot holes.  There are no police, and the air is dirty from jet exhaust.  We are sucking the fumes of those wealthy elite who prefer for everyone to own a black man.  If he resists shoot him in the drive through of a Wendy's.  You can choose to ignore reality, turn the other cheek, or don the rose colored glasses.  Each day when I shop for home staples, I am confronted with this reality.  Homelessness.  Poverty.  Despair.  America has not been governing herself for a long time.  When corporate America does what ever they want at the expense of the people, democracy has failed.  Cell phone towers every block.  PFAS in the water.  Shot Spotter sensors all over town listening to your lives.  Big Brother is here, and that ugly menacing image on the screen is Donald Trump.  We will bide our time until the week of April 22, when SCOTUS will decide if Trump is immune from prosecution.  If they protect him, then we will know democracy is lost.