STOP AT NOTHING

It seems Republicans will stop at nothing to achieve and hold on to power. I watched last night as Rachel Maddow recounted in excruciating detail how Lee Atwater cleverly conspired, all those years ago, to set up Gary Hart in the "Monkey Business" trap--an operation successful enough to remove Hart from presidential contention and a real chance of defeating George H.W.Bush that year. Since then, of course, we have had the Bush-Gore fiasco and the 2016 "election" of the present pretender who occupies the White House.

Poll after poll shows that America is at heart democratic--even Democratic with a capital D. Poll after poll shows that Republicans in power are hell bent on implementing goals that are at odds with the wishes of the majority of Americans. They achieve power by chicanery: voter suppression, obscene misuse of wealth, gerrymandering, manipulation of the Supreme Court, the absurdity of the Electoral College and the long outdated tradition of two senators per state... And wield it ruthlessly. With shameless lies and propaganda, they manage to enforce the ovine obedience of a good part of the American electorate, the only check and balance that could exercise some semblance of control.

If we, the majority of American voters, fail to get of our rear ends and make our voices heard in two weeks time, we will have thrown our noble experiment in democracy to the wolves. We must not simply speak with our votes. We must shout.