Stuck

“… a warning for the GOP…” reads a portion of a headline from this morning’s newsfeed re the recent Democratic win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

Yup, people are showing up and voting out the Party of Backwards, the party that can’t get the hang of keeping its ear to the ground or fingers on the pulse. The religious right can’t seem to help itself when it comes to issues that are hot-button for them but apparently for no one else—transgender laws, book banning, drag queens, etc. And their stance on abortion rights has met with opposition at every turn, to the point that the decision to overturn Roe v Wade may be revisited at some point in the near future.

Republicans are laser focused on taking things away— freedom of expression, control over one’s body, the opportunity to vote. They are often running scared. They have a corner on hypocrisy, claiming to be a party that values freedom but, as it turns out, freedom for a few, not for everyone. Those other issues that they apparently lose sleep over really don’t rise to the level of “issue” until they make them so, and then they only betray their fear and provincialism and irrelevance. And they make people mad.

What’s astounding is that, as a phantom ‘majority,’ (aka minority), they still wield so much power. It’s the dark math and magic of gerrymandering. And fearmongering. And white paranoia.