“You say you'll
change the constitution
well, you know
we all want to change
your head
You tell me its the
institution
well, you know
you better free your
mind instead
But if you go carrying
pictures of Chairman Mao
you ain't gonna make
with anyone anyhow”
----John Lennon “Revolution”
----John Lennon “Revolution”
With baited breath the
nation awaits this date next year when, barring conviction by the
Senate, one Donald J. tRUMP will attend the taking of the
presidential oath by his successor and, immediately after the
inaugural ceremony, handcuffed and frog marched to an awaiting paddy
wagon. To the relief of the nation, and amid dancing in the
streets, he will be taken down to the bailey, arraigned before a
local magistrate on an array of high crimes against the people of the
United States.
Meanwhile, as his
successor addresses the nation and the world in what will certainly
be an Herculean task to restore decency at home and honor abroad, the
White House will be undergoing a fumigation as the nation struggles
to regain its ethical compass and save its institutions.
That's the worst-case
scenario, for it involves enduring this petulant mendacity yet
another long year, as the corrosive effects of tRUMP and tRUMPism
continue to course through the veins of our political body.
The best case scenario is
that somehow enough Senate Republicans find or grow a spine and vote
to convict our Caesar Disgustus. Absent that, it will be up to the
voters to remove this cancer eating away at the institutions of this
country.
On that score, two salient
points emerge as we approach the Iowa Caucus and the beginning of the
quadrennial election to determine who will be the next president of
the United States. First we must ask ourselves if the country is now
near completing the first quarter of this century or if it is 1920
all over again. Is this country yearning for a return to 'normalcy'
and prepared to elect Joe Biden, our modern equivalent of Warren G.
Harding, or is it prepared to meet the future with manly purpose
head-on? I think not. As noted throughout these columns, the revolt
on our hands is not a left/right ideological battle. It is not a
battle against the institutions in this country. Our Caesar
Disgustus grossly misreads this. It is a class conflict in which the
middle class, writhing in pain and losing ground financially and
politically, is revolting against the top ten percent, demanding a
return of the republic. Status Quo Joe doesn't fit this bill. More
of the same won't cut it. Nominating the latest incarnation of the
Clinton's and their DLC clones will not motivate the electorate and
will ensure that Disgustus is returned to power.
Secondly, there is no way
absent inspired Democratic stupidity, that Disgustus can win this
election through honest means. I say this because at no time has The
Donald enjoyed popular support, either as a candidate or during his
more than a thousand days stinking up the Oval Office. The
electorate has taken to greeting the Republicans like a socially
transmitted disease, a political form of gonorrhea or syphilis.
Indeed, as it stands, over fifty percent of the country wants him
convicted by the Senate and removed from office. His only avenues to
victory now rest with the Democrats nominating some milquetoast
candidate promising a return to the Status Quo Ante, or through the
dubious instruments of voter suppression, foreign interference and
outright fraud.
And as the republic hangs
in the balance:
Br'er Putin, he jus'
laugh and laugh
Convict
and Imprison.
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