Just so I understand what you're saying--unless Democrats win, democracy is imperiled? Unless Americans choose to continue one-party rule, our democracy is lost? Isn't the act of voting and giving citizens the ability to choose who governs them the very definition of 'democracy"?
Hey, I get it. I don't like it when Democrats run the show, and as it turns out, with good reason. Forgive me for not buying into the "titanic stakes" rhetoric. What we need is a different way of doing things, because obviously what's been going on isn't working. Unless of course, you're happy with $5.00/gas and heating oil. I live in a cold winter state, so I'm not looking forward to my first fuel delivery of the fall.
I have listened to the Old Geezer's speeches, and they disgust me. How the Great Unifier can castigate and insult half his population is a mystery to me. Sorry, but I'm not a Fascist--I'm just someone who views the nation through a different lens. Want to stop polarization? Stop name calling. Although--I should take my own advice and not label the President as an "Old Geezer", but that's just a drop of honesty.
Regarding Trump and his machinations, who knows what's going to happen with all that? I still maintain that if the media and Democrats would stop talking about him, he'd fade away. He's less popular than you fear. Sure he's got some die-hard support, but so does Joe--you know--people who support them no matter what their lying eyes are really telling them.
Gerrymandering is a reality. Democrats are mad because honestly, I don't think they're as crafty about it as Republicans. In my state, New York, the drunk-with-power Democrats in state government drew up a map that would almost effectively shut out Republican representation. (NYS is, like the federal government, Democrat-controlled from top to bottom). Of course Republicans objected and it eventually went to the NYS Court of Appeals (our highest court). The majority Democrat judges agreed(!), and a Special Master was brought in to do the re-draw. It was eminently interesting and actually cost a Democrat or two their seats, but it was fairer than what the greedy Democrats had proposed. I'm laughing all the way to the voting booth! Gerrymandering is not something that the Republicans "own"--Dems do it when they can. I guess they'd be stupid not to.
The penultimate paragraph in this essay was the most significant. I know the author intended it to be a castigation of Republicans, but it can be read a different way--Democrats and all their baggage are the scourge on American society, not a few nut job election deniers--even Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton, she of the "the election was stolen from me" fame. Democracy is exhausting, and expensive, and sometimes a bit tedious, but boy, is it worth it.
