COMMISERATION

(01,22,2022) Commiseration requires the ability to express or feel sorrow for another human being. Sympathy, however, is not commonly practiced among the Republican members of Congress or the Senate on Capitol Hill. Their one and only goal, during the Obama administration and now during Biden’s, is to thwart the Democratic party by disagreeing with every motion they put forward. Mitch McConnell said it about Obama and repeated the same thing about Biden. He declared that he would make it his prime objective to see that the former president Obama accomplished nothing and then reiterated the same goal when Biden took office. Mitch McConnell and his pseudo Republicans do not care about the American people. They only care about maintaining the status quo for their elite rich friends. They frown on taxing the rich, instead allowing them loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. They create false incentives that appear to mete out a pittance in savings or interest for those few who have a small portfolio of investments, while the majority of the American people, who cannot afford such investments, are forced to survive on a modest or inadequate income and struggle for the right to health insurance for all. The capitalists, at the top of the heap, do not wish to support the people who are making them rich. And so, they have their friends, those Republican Representatives and Senators at the Capitol, to protect their interests. If these Republican officials had one ounce of empathy for the struggling American, they would not continually strike down every effort, by Biden’s Democratic party, to create a bill which would offer aid to the millions who are suffering due to the pandemic and all the other crises that plague the nation today. In addition to the hate crimes, it seems that there is a never ending onslaught of natural disasters with which to cope. One cannot turn on the news without hearing about the devastation from uncontrollable bush fires or mudslides, drought in one area while there is more flooding in another. Earthquakes and volcanoes, under the sea, are so large that they cause tsunamis on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. And yet, Mitch McConnell’s Republican party are hesitant to support any relief bill, which is presented by the Biden administration, simply because they do not want to contribute to any effort that would offer credence to Biden’s Democratic Party. The Republican Party is placing malice, spite and self-serving interests before the welfare of the people to whom they swore their service. They have lost the ability to feel any emotion except hatred. This is what their former president, the P..O.T.A.S. (President of the American Supremacists), has wrought on them. And now, the P.O.T.A.S. is campaigning again, still pushing ‘the big lie’, and garnering more hatred. It is no wonder that we are seeing an increasing number of attacks on synagogues. The P.O.T.A.S., the spokesman for the white supremacists, is still on his soapbox, delivering lie after lie, convincing anyone who will listen, that white Americans are having their jobs, traditions and livelihood stolen from them by others who are not like them. These kinds of lies only spur on fear and hatred of nonwhites. The P.O.T.A.S. feeds on this hatred while nurturing it. Ironically, in France, a far right presidential candidate has been admonished for giving the same sort of hate speeches. But, in America, it now seems to be accepted as ‘the norm’. And, the P.O.T.A.S., literally, ‘gets away with murder’, or, at the very least, incitement to murder. It frightens me to think that this hate monger is still being given a platform on which to pedal any untruth that will support his goal. A German chancellor of infamy, Adolf Hitler, did exactly the same thing, prior to his rise just before the second world war. Unfortunately for the German people, as well as the rest of the world, it was too late by the time that the Germans realized that they had been deceived. Every fascist dictatorship, in history, has begun the same way. The P.O.T.A.S,. has taken lessons from them all, and used the unrest in America, the white supremacist agenda and the insecurity of an already struggling nation, to convince those who are confused and frightened by it all, that he is the one to deliver them from the chaos, ironically, a chaos mostly of his making. And, while the P.O.T.A.S. has hit the campaign trail again, still lying to the people, telling them that he didn’t lose the last election, his cronies have been busy gerrymandering and creating new laws to make it more difficult for minorities, specifically in the rural areas, to get out and vote. In truth, the P.O.T.A.S. and his cronies know that they lost the last election because nonwhites, across America, showed up in record numbers in order to have their voices heard. The white supremacists, like Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, do not wish to have a repeat of this kind. So, he and his cohort, the Governor of Texas, are doing everything in their power to ‘tip the scales’. Instead of providing all the assistance necessary to ensure their people are entitled to a democratic and fair vote, these governors are doing all they can to hinder the ethnic vote, even reducing the number of voting stations in some areas to one. Adolf Hitler used the Gestapo, during the second world war, to intimidate free-minded citizens. The P.O.T.A.S. uses the governors from the red states to accomplish the same objective. If one believes that these neo Nazis have the interests of the average American at heart, then one is sadly delusional. One can only hope that the results of the Jan. 6 committee investigation are able to prevent another debacle like Rudy Giuliani falsifying documents in order to install fake electors in seven states, during the last election, in order to overthrow the true electorate, and steal the election from the people of America. Does anyone believe that the people, who colluded with Rudy Giuliani, have the best interests of the American people in mind? What’s needed is fully disclosed transparency!