I believe it is important to look at the big picture, the
broad spectrum of what and how things are happening in our country today and
when it really started.
He may not have been at the beginning of the movement
toward total Conservative control of America but Ronald Reagan, a man revered
as a God to the GOP, had the charisma to pull it off.
As a movie star, albeit in “B” movies, the man most
associated with a chimpanzee was nevertheless a celebrity. His 1941 marriage to
Jane Wyman was a Hollywood dream that ended a mere 4 days after my birth in
1949. I am finally over the fear that I caused their break-up.
He waited 3 years before marrying Nancy Robbins, the lady
who eventually took the reins of the Presidency when Ronnie went into his slide
toward dementia in the latter days of his second term as President.
But while President he initiated the infamous if not
insidious plan to move all the wealth of the country into the pockets of the
wealthy. The plan dubbed “Trickle Down Economics” was advertised as a way to
get more money into the hands of business owners who would then use it to hire
more workers and pay them higher wages.
Looking back it is hard to understand how Americans could
be so naïve as to think this money grab would work but Ronnie was not called “The
Great Communicator” for nothing.
His clever words and Hollywood training on how to deliver
them made him the darling of the Repub Party. And his subtle but unwavering
push to take all the money from the middle class and gift it to the richest of
America continues to this day.
I will not say that everything he did was evil or even
just bad but the hard move toward the right had just begun in full earnest.
Little by little the Repub ground game geared up and America’s
minority party started gerrymandering their way into positions of power across
the country.
Slowly at first GOP controlled House in every city, town
and hamlet would rework their election district maps to gain unfair advantages
over the majority of citizens within the area.
The way this works is the party in control of the
legislature of the area after every National census, on the tens as in 1980,
1990, 2000, etc. gets to reconfigure the voting maps. This is why a State with a 60-40 Democratic
leaning populace could easily end up represented by 70% or more Repubs in Congress.
Please remember this in 2020!
The problem of gerrymandering has become so evil, awful,
and dangerous that the courts, even those stocked with Conservative judges, have
ruled against the practice and ordered some to roll back the ridiculously drawn
maps!
But it easily could be too little too late.
With the latest election of a man who is clearly
unqualified to be anything but a shyster (and frankly he is a good one at that)
America has seen the Reagan plan come to wondrous fruition.
The reins were taken up by the richest man in Kentucky
who just happens to be the senior Senator of that State, Mitch McConnell.
His hatred, disdain and uncalled for treatment of
President Obama coupled with his seemingly prescient knowledge of collusion in
the background allowed him to ignore anything put forth by the two time
overwhelmingly elected Democrat from Illinois.
This anti-American refused to even meet with or interview
Mr. Obama’s choice for the open seat on the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland.
McConnell held out until his gerrymandered districts and
some help from outside America could place a useful idiot in the White House.
In the 2 years since this subtle yet insidious coup took
place the GOP under the direction of McConnell has filled every possible
vacancy on courts across America and placed 2 totally partisan judges on the
Supreme Court FOR LIFE!
The party of the 1% has also gifted a huge tax break TO
the 1% while running up the country’s deficit so high he conveniently calls for
cuts to social services in order to pay it down!
Those social services were the safety nets put in place
by Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt some 80 years ago. Since that time they
worked beautifully for the Middle Class and workers of the country but are just
one more stumbling block toward total domination by the oligarchy of America.
As of the time of this writing the Repub Party appears to
be pulling back from the dolt known as trump who sits as a buffoon on the World
stage as he shuttles between his executive time in the White House and vacation
time in his illegal alien populated Florida country club, Mar A Lago.
Why would they finally and just now be abandoning the
current leader of their Party?
Perhaps with the noose closing in around the neck of the
Russian controlled operative plants in the current administration McConnell
realizes he has gone about as far as he can go. He feels if he can get his
cronies to switch gears and slowly pull back his support for trump they may
still have a shot at holding onto power in the Senate, even if a Democrat wins
the next Presidential election.
Of course if that happens he will snidely refuse to meet
with any nominee for a vacant seat on the Supreme Court for as long as it takes
to get one of his own back in power.
And while all of the above has been taking place in America
most of us veas lost sight of that big picture I mentioned at the top of this piece.
Social Security is under attack; Medicare is under
attack; Climate change is being ignored; Healthcare for citizens of the richest
country in the world is under attack; Infrastructure repair, while not sexy is
incredibly needed, is being ignored; Clean air and potable water is being polluted
and ignored; Our allies in NATO are being ignored and insulted; Our once great
educational system is being dismantled and our National Treasure also known as
our National Parks are being defiled and ruined.
All of these horrific happenings have one common thread,
they will garner more money for the greediest most undeserving among us, the top
1% of the wealthiest in the country unless we the people push back, stand up,
and vote for every possible Democratic candidate as if our lives depended on
it, BECAUSE IT DOES!
