Why we can't let this go on any longer
We have to force Republicans to stop, and they brought it on themselves
An insurrectionist being arrested
[T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.—John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Mill’s dictum applies pretty much to the entire Republican party. Power needs to be rightfully exercised over them because all they seem to want is to cause harm to others.
Here’s a short list of harmful Republican wishes and acts.
They impose their “religious beliefs” on everyone even to the extent of taking away the rights of all women to control their own bodies.
They ship immigrants to blue states just to “own the libs” —which they think causes the libs harm, but which actually and despicably exploits the human beings they could care less about.
They try as hard as they can to steal elections, desperate to harm their opponents and, in the process, harm democracy.
They are trying as hard as they can to capture all political offices that would allow them to overturn elections, cancel the will of the people, and thereby deprive all voters of their franchise.
They separated children from parents and put them in cages.
They tried to ban Muslims from entering the country.
They resisted in every way possible an effective response to COVID, causing the deaths of more than a million Americans.
They threaten harm to everyone they disagree with, and violent threats are increasing as Republicans learn more and more outrageous shamelessness from Trump.
Rich Republicans pump billions of dollars into the already corrupt political system to boost their captured politicians, causing harm to everyone else, including the stupendously stupid deplorables who can be whipped up to harm their fellow citizens with a transparently false Tweet.
They keep trying to get more and more control of education in order to prevent intelligent students from learning the facts that inevitably proved every one of their beliefs to be false, perverted, and vicious—thus harming everyone who loves truth.
And everyone reading this could add hundreds of items to this list.
When any group of people wants to do this much harm to their fellow citizens, they simply must be stopped.
But there are too many of them to put them all in jail like the scumbag whose picture is at the top of this post.
So the only way America can put a stop to their malicious desires to do harm is to win the next election—big.
If we stop Republicans at the polls this fall, if we take their political power away at the ballot box, it will have the same effect as putting them in jail. It will stop them—against their will—from doing the harm they so ardently want to do.
Will they use that as an excuse to rebel, to launch the civil war that many of them are already threatening?
We cannot worry about that. The coming election is our last chance to stop them using the only legitimate democratic means at our disposal. If they then decide that they will not abide by legitimate democratic means, we law enforcement will have to deal with their insurrection when the time comes. But at least we won’t have to pretend anymore that they deserve the rights of American citizens. Traitors don’t get those rights.
This is our last chance. If we get out there in November and crush them at the ballot box, they there is at least a chance we can put them back in the box where they belong, wailing and gnashing their teeth but not threatening democracy any longer.
It’s a terrible shame that we have to go through all this just because Republicans are miserable, mean-spirited, selfish, and antisocial.
But Decent America should not have to live with this any more.
Let’s do something about it. OK?
A great summary of their miserable intentions for our US future. Sadly they are in high positions in many states and I assume that our military and police forces are infiltrated as well.