(#4723) The republican rot from the inside of our democracy

      Most all of my life I have been railing against the targeted nature of republican politics to destroy the backbone and muscle of America and now it is coming so that all can see who will look. From the denial of Covid procedures designed to protect us to open aggression aimed at our functioning democracy, let alone the decades of diminishing our working middle poor class of any equity and equality for all. From racial disparity to undermining women's equal rights, the republican party has been a scourge on democratic norms for nearly 70 years. My last 50 years of making the case that republicans are antithetical to modernity and enlightenment has mainly fallen on deaf ears.
     But that has not dissuaded me from finding an audience to converse with about the nefarious republican party. They strategically cloak themselves in civilized narratives that either downplay their agenda or mask it. They are a pompous lot who have lost the last semblance of conscious self criticism in order to fulfill their dire agenda to deny democratic norms with their tortured illogic. They will pat you on the back and say nice things to you but in their policies they show who they are. No increase in the well below poverty federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. No voting rights protections and instead voting rights limitations. I could go on but you get my drift.
     The republican party does not serve democratic ideals nor do their constituents who vote for them without considering their history. I have two cousins who said they always vote for republicans because that is what they have always done. Sad but true. They put their blind loyalty ahead of light of day logic. I don't know how to convince them otherwise but maybe Covid will do that for me. It is true that Covid is no believer in ideology so as they put their faith in a republican party that doesn't serve them so shall their risks be grave. It doesn't even matter to them that republicans are denying the vote and are trying to subvert our democracy. They just don't want to admit they were wrong, and break their streak of voting for republicans.