The wedge that is the lie (#4483)

      There is one really big lie floating around in the republican party and it is a whopper! That the weasel, a pus filled pimple on a man's ass, trump won the election in 2020. That there are more than a few powerful republicans who are feeding this lie's frenzy is an indication of just how poisoned the wealthy and powerful in our nation have become. Which speaks to wealth reform as well as political reform. When the wealthy end up speaking for we the people we are no longer a democracy, we are instead an oligarchy with authoritarian tendencies. What is even worse though is that a former appointed president is the core of the big lie and he is fomenting it relentlessly.
     Now less about the wedge that is trump and more about what that wedge is doing to the republican party. First, President Biden was hopeful that he would be able to negotiate with republicans on big social and economic issues. Well with the big lie being what it is we are all able to see that the fealty the republican party has to the lie is greater than than any fealty republicans feel toward democracy. So the conclusion is that there will be little to no negotiating with republicans because they are siding with trump and that President Biden is illegitimate. How can they negotiate in good faith when the whole of the republican party believes that trump is still the appointed president?
     Not even the likes of Joe Manchin can square that circle so I expect that after meeting with President Biden his stance on no filibuster reform will soften. Because even Manchin knows that trying to negotiate with republicans at this stage is a fools errand. Most all of us already knew this because of the obvious evidence surrounding us. Yet some are slower on the uptake and that is what is happening with Joe Manchin. President Biden got this from the get go even though he wanted to try negotiating and is still in small ways attempting to do so but regardless he is planning the next step of passing legislation regardless if he has republican input or not.