Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Flake or Fluke

Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona is refusing to seek re-election, Republican Senator Bob Corker is leaving the Senate, Senator John McCain's lethal diagnosis of brain cancer, means now that I am afraid yet again.  I am afraid there is nowhere for the moderate Republicans to go so the Party will morph into the Trump fascist-like Party of hate.

It would seem the middle class who support these Trumpian misfits will be stepping on their own toes if they ultimately vote Trump because the Party of Trump is not about them.  Trump did not drain the swamp.  Trump is the swamp.   His entire cabinet is filled with billionaires and contains an ex-Goldman Sachs hierarchy.  A Trump tax cut is for Trump and the 2% wealthiest.  There is, however, a Trump appeal, sadly and incredulously, to the white working class even including white working class women.

The question for me becomes how can we stop this Nazi-like progression of heil Trump with their Tiki torch carrying Nazi-like extremists within the Republican base who are some of the most violent in our nation.

I know those who share my political views and I believe even most true conservative Republicans are loathe to the crudity and violence of Trumpian politics.  In the face of moderate Republican abdication from the Senate what are the progressives and humane of this nation, who I believe are the majority of this country, to do with the entrails of the meanest, cruelest, most mendacious, Fascist-like remnants of the Republican Party who have captured the halls of power with a madness sidecar of Trumpian crude to grease the lift off? 

It is obvious to say that Democrats MUST win elections over Republican extremists that have filled the base of the Republican Party.  Democrats must stop bickering and UNITE our Party under a new banner filled with candidates of youth as well as counting on older Democrats to fill the historical wisdom of its chalice. We must show why we are truly in the majority and why in 2008 Obama, in truth, really did, according to the Washington Post of that time, "fill the Washington Mall with portions of the Mall standing room only, and latecomers directed to an overflow area." This was the America for which, over a lifetime, I had hoped. 

Paraphrasing Republican conservative candidate for the presidency in 1964, Barry Goldwater: "... let me remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." That phrase makes sense now for the progressives of our time.  We must face Fascist-like right wing totalitarian religious extremism, gay bashing, health care destroying, Medicare and Medicaid obliterating, climate destroying, Nazi-like Tiki Torch wielding white supremacist extremists by countering them with strong, unyielding, unapologetic, humane, progressive economic fairness and with justice for all minorities.  We must carry that mantra proudly and never give up. 

Is Republican Jeff Flake's leaving the political arena simply a fluke or does it represent the future of a rabid and sick Republican Party destroying the essence of Madisonian democracy?   We will find out but this much I know is true: we must fight injustice like we are fighting for our lives because, in the final analysis, we are.  

NOT ANYMORE

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