Just Disgusted

It's hard to be optimistic about the future of our country.  Optimism is difficult when I think about the fact that 73 million American voters and virtually every elected Republican think that Trump deserved four more years as President of the United States.  

Think about that.  The most incompetent, corrupt president in our history, the individual directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of needless American deaths, the man who has actively solicited and willingly accepted the help of our country's enemies in order to gain and potentially remain in office, that piece of shit has the allegiance of tens of millions of Americans and one complete political party. 

Republicans in both Houses of Congress are actively engaged in the most divisive possible behavior with their challenges to the outcome of the Electoral College.  Their willingness to indulge Trump's election fraud fantasy and encourage Trump's lazy and haphazard coup.  Their behavior is very close to the behavior of Southern members of Congress before those men at least had the courage to openly declare war on the United States itself.

It's a hard thing to consider that the traitors who declared war on our country in 1861 as more honorable than the current Republican members of Congress, but those men were willing to put their lives on the line for their racist beliefs.  Today's Republicans traitors are putting virtually nothing personal on the line as they shred American's faith in our election process to curry favor with Trump's base of racist and fascist deplorables for nothing more than a small measure of political leverage.  An ambition that makes them even more dishonorable and unforgiveable.  Their selfish actions will have tragic consequences for our country far into the future.

Republicans have all the evidence they could ever need to realize that Trump's presidency has been a disaster for our country.  He has gifted the right unqualified judges (all the way to the Supreme Court), demolished environmental protections, shredded our most critical alliances, handed the richest (people and corporations) tax cuts that will have devastating impacts on our economy and degraded the political environment in our country in ways that may take generations to reconcile.  Yet, he is their spiritual and emotional leader.

The American that Trump has encouraged is ripe for a competent authoritarian to step into the Trump mold and with the support of the Republican Party destroy our Constitutional Republic.  Trump has exposed the flaws in our democracy, opened the doors to our enemies to exploit those flaws and shown the way for a brighter, more ambitious, group of right wing politicians to end the American experiment.