I saw this statement in print the other day. It might have been from a Democratic Congressperson or some pundit on one of the news shows. Anyhow, there will be no limit when it comes to how low Donald Trump will go, when it comes to holding onto power.
I’m beginning to think that one of the worst things about Trump and the time we’ve lost laboring amidst his endless self-promotion and ineptitude is the compromising of values and lowering of standards we’ve been forced to consider.
This becomes most glaring in the degradation and coarseness of our language, and especially of late in matters of electoral maps and voting blocks, as state legislatures try to match what Republicans have been able to get away with in Texas and Florida and now a growing list of other places– especially since the Supreme Court eighty-sixed yet another provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The redistricting and outright gerrymandering has forced the Democrats’ hand and resulted in places like California and other Democratic strongholds resorting to the same tactics.
It’s sickening on the face of it—that Trump and the Heritage Foundation flunkies have forced Democrats to follow suit, to trudge through the mud of foul play and cheap tricks and cheating. Taking the high road is pie-in-the-sky thinking anymore.
Intentions may be different, but the look is one of being muddied and bloodied and rendered no different than the Republican lemmings who apparently prefer a dangerously skewed, selective scriptural stranglehold on religion, maintaining white privilege, and relegating women and black and brown people to the margins.
You know—back to a time when things and people were simpler somehow, more manageable and predictable and the way they should be.
Yikes. Lazy, frightened snakes slithering on their bellies, pining for their good ol’ days. And they’d love nothing more than for the Dems to follow them into the swamp that Trump once promised to drain.
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