st<\/sup> 2021<\/i><\/p>\nAt 9:01am PST yesterday I posted a one-word post on Facebook.<\/p>\n
The post said, \u201cWHEW!\u201d<\/p>\n
It might be the only all-caps post I\u2019ll ever make, since I regard people who post in all-caps to be total idiots. I am quite capable of attaining truly sublime levels of idiocy without artificial aids from my caps-lock key, thank you very much.<\/p>\n
We all expected things to turn weird and disgusting between the election and inauguration day, and of course things did. And yes, there were a lot of grim things. COVID continued to explode, with the death toll now well over 400,000, and the Trump regime bungled the vaccine rollout. Trump gleefully sabotaged Open Skies and other treaties, giving a gleeful Vladimir Putin an entire basket of tactical Easter eggs. They had an insurrectionist attack on the Capitol and comprised, for the most part, of meth heads trying to play soldier and absolutely lunatic conspiracy theory freaks. Even more troubling, we discovered that much of the Republican party would rather destroy the United States than share power with those of the wrong race, or the wrong religion, or who were simply guilty of not being rich.<\/p>\n
If one good thing came of the Trump regime, it was that he forced America to look in the mirror, and learn that it\u2019s really no better than any other country, and can no longer pretend to be a shining beacon of reason and ethics. Not that it ever really could, but the facade had been torn away.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t envy Joe Biden. He took office yesterday facing a national crisis every bit as great as the one Franklin Roosevelt faced in March of 1933. FDR only had to face the First Great Depression. Biden is facing the Second Great Depression, along with the pandemic, the worst since 1919, and an opposition that is anything but loyal; a large chunk of the GOP leadership are seditionists at best, traitors at worst.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll oppose Biden on some items, sometimes vehemently. But unlike his predecessor, I won\u2019t be questioning his loyalty, his courage, or his good intentions. That\u2019s a huge improvement right there. Trump is filth. Biden is not.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m having grim fun watching the GOP writhe and twist. The militias have come face to face with the fact that no coup can succeed without popular support. Power comes, not from the barrel of a gun, but the will of the people. It\u2019s something the fairy-tale stories about overthrowing evil kings and the like often miss; no regime happens in a vacuum. You need, at the very least, the support of one third of the population, and at least another third willing to not take up arms against you. When 3\/4s of the population are openly disgusted with you and want to throw you in jail (or under a guillotine) then your cause is lost. Most people hate the so-called militias, with their open embrace of Nazism and white superiority. Theirs is the philosophy of war, of death camps, of genocides. A large majority of Americans are better than that, and won\u2019t fall to that level except under the circumstances that led to the French Revolution, the Soviet revolution, the Putsch and rise of Hitler, or the final disintegration of the USSR. We aren\u2019t there yet, and with any luck, we won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n
The QAnon conspiracy nuts have to come to grips with the fact that Trump isn\u2019t going to be a God-Emperor here to save us from the utterly imaginary depredations of the Clintons, Obama, or the lizard people. Quite a few of them hit a wall of reality beginning on the sixth of January and crashed and burned with the sight of Biden taking the oath of office. Q himself apparently stopped posting shortly after the election. Many will just find a new form of insanity to embrace, but quite a few are wailing that they were misled and lied to, and that their new religion failed them. I imagine Christianity must have faced a similar setback when Jesus\u2019 prediction that many of those living would see his return failed to come to pass. In other words, don\u2019t expect QAnon to just go away. The ability to rationalize is deep amongst the deluded and the insane.<\/p>\n
The the \u2018sane\u2019 part of the GOP, the \u2018good Germans\u2019 are popping up all over the place. \u201cOh, I never supported Trump.\u201d \u201cI just went along because I was afraid.\u201d \u201cI was just following orders.\u201d Suddenly, they want to talk about unity, negotiation, and compromise. There may even be some who are acting in good faith, but it\u2019s a sure bet that most are just trying to salvage what they can for the ruins of their party, and are probing Biden and the Democratic Party for any signs of weakness. A favorite seems to be \u201cWell, 74 million people voted for Trump and you can\u2019t ignore them.\u201d The reality is 81 million people voted for Biden, and unlike Trump won\u2019t be out to viciously take revenge on the Trump voters. Biden isn\u2019t going to refuse aid to red states, and he isn\u2019t going to address the pandemic only in states that voted for him. He isn\u2019t Trump. He isn\u2019t a monster.<\/p>\n
To the Trump voters I say, \u201cBiden is here to govern, not rule. He isn\u2019t going to make you second-class citizens because of how you voted. He isn\u2019t going to turn America into a Soviet wasteland, no matter what the high-paid liars on the right wing media say. He is going to make changes, and you may not like all of them, but if you have any honesty, any decency, you\u2019ll reserve judgment and see what the changes mean in your lives, your work, your schools, your health care and your country. You don\u2019t own America, but America exists to serve you, and Biden seems to be totally aware of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried your way, and it was a catastrophe. Trump was the worst president in our history. Expect better with Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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