Saturday, January 1, 2022
My Dear America:
As we step over the fault line from 2021 to 2022 it feels to me as though we are walking through a Mine Field of Epic Proportions. I have been alive for over 79 Years and I don't ever remember a period of time in my life like the last Five Years. Before these last Five Years I worried about a lot of things happening in the world but I never really worried about America becoming something like a Third World Dictatorship.
That could never happen I thought, before the last Five Years.
That was before Donald Trump somehow stole an election in which he did not win the majority of votes over his opponent, Hillary Clinton. The ridiculous and criminally outmoded Electoral College System gave Trump his 2016 victory. And lest we forget, Donald Trump in the 2016 Election never agreed to accept the results of that Election, unless he won.
In 2016 Trump was lucky enough to have Hillary Clinton as his opponent and Barack Obama as the President, both of whom played by the long established rules of American Democracy. Hillary reluctantly conceded that Trump won the election even though she had won the most vote totals. President Barack Obama like all of his Presidential Predecessors before him invited Donald Trump to the White House and did his best to provide Trump with a Cooperative and Peaceful Presidential Transition between the Obama and the Trump Presidential Administrations
When Trump legitimately lost to Joe Biden in November of 2020 he followed through on the threat that he made in 2016 and had continued to make in 2020 and despite the overwhelming evidence proving that he lost the election, Donald Trump created THE BIG LIE that although those bad people in the Press and the Democratic Party claimed that Biden had actually won the election because he had won more votes than Trump, it wasn't true.
I think that a lot of us thought that since Donald Trump thought that losing at anything was a fate worse than death that he needed a bit more time to listen to reason and his own family who, rumor has it, were trying to get him to see the darkness at the end of the tunnel.
So it was clear that Trump needed time to get his head on straight and accept the inevitable reality that he had LOST, that he was a LOSER who needed time to accept the inevitable conclusion that any reasonable President in his position would come to.
But Hey, We were not just dealing with any old joker here. We were dealing with someone whose four years in the White House were unlike those of any other President in the History of the United States. We were dealing with Donald Freakin Trump, People and as we now know, despite the fact that nearly everyone in the world was convinced that Donald Trump had LOST the 2020 Election, Donald Trump would never admit that he lost the 2020 Election. He would never accept that reality as fact.
"Screw Biden," Donald Trump thought, "I'm not going anywhere willingly. If they want me out of the White House They're going to have to drag me out."
Dragging the bastard out of the White House was certainly a pleasant thought to many Democrats but as luck would have it, it would not be necessary.
After Exhausting every legal avenue and a few Illegal avenues as well, Trump did finally get on a plane on Biden's Inauguration Day and Fly to Mara Lago with his Family.
That should have been the end of it but of course it wasn't.
We have just lived through a year in which we started out with Donald Trump and Company (Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, Bernard Kerack, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Peter Navarro and others) staging a certified Coup Attempt on January 6th with the expressed purpose of unlawfully keeping Joe Biden from having his Election Certified by the Congress and keeping Donald Trump illegally in the office of the Presidency for God Knows How Long.
As the Congressional Committee formed by the United States House of Representatives to investigate the January 6th Insurrection continues to try to find out what really happened behind the scenes in the planning and executing that plan on January 6th, Former President Trump has chosen to do his best to obstruct the work of the January Sixth Committee. Trump has gone to court in order to block the release of information regarding what he did leading up to January Sixth, and more importantly what he did and did not do on January Sixth.
It is common knowledge that Trump sat in the White House watching Television coverage of his fans Rioting outside and inside the Capitol Building on January Sixth following Incendiary Speeches by Trump and some of his Loyalists outside the White House. Republicans like Kevin McCarthy had harsh words for Trump on January Sixth but these days only have harsh words for the January Sixth Committee and in particular the Republican members of that Committee who have chosen not to gloss over Donald Trump's Treasonous actions like so many of their Republican colleagues have done.
There are plenty of questions that we hope to have answers to when the January Sixth Committee presents its findings in the New Year. They have promised not only an extensive Report on what happened on January Sixth but they have also promised to present Televised Testimony that they feel Americans deserve to have regarding the questionable and possibly treasonous actions taken by not only Trump and his Cohorts but also extremely questionable actions taken by others including the Rioters themselves, as well as many Republican members of Congress who seem to have been active participants in the Trump Plan to end Democracy and install a Dictator in America following the events of January Sixth 2021.
Certainly as long as Joe Biden is in office America will continue to be a Democratic Republic.
But 2024 is one more year closer and it seems as though many members of the press are already inexplicably predicting Republican victories in Congress in 2022. Clearly Republicans in Congress feel that if they have the backing of the Trump Mob they will be successful in retaking Control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. I hope that these strange and reckless predictions of Republican political victories in 2022 will not occur.
Why in God's name would anyone vote Republican in 2022 when they have seen the Anti Democratic Rhetoric and Actions by most of these Republican Party Members.
Why on Earth would people vote Republican when they know full well that instead of Republicans learning from their mistakes in 2020 when we narrowly avoided Donald Trump stealing another Election, Republicans are now taking measures in state legislatures all over the country to stack the deck so that they can turn back the tide of Democracy and disregard the choices of voters and when they need to change the rules so that Democrats may never be able to legitimately win another election again.
If that sounds scary, it is. It should scare the hell out of all of us.
Donald Trump has completely corrupted the Republican Party with the help of Right Wing Media and what we are headed for in 2022 if we do not wake up to reality is the complete corruption of our Voting system.
It is time for Democrats to wake up and smell the Treason that is raging throughout the Republican Party and throughout the United States.
We still have time to save Democracy in The United States of America. We need to all wake up to reality and start taking control of our Democracy before we lose it forever. We need to ask our Democratic Congressional Representatives and Senators to recognize the incredibly important role that they play in saving our Democracy. In particular, we hope that Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema recognize how important their role is in saving voting Rights and by so doing saving Democracy.
Not all of our Forefathers were perfect people but they fought hard for us so that we could live and prosper in a country where all men and women are truly created equal and can maintain control of their government.
We can still control our government but if we don't pay attention and recognize that Republicans are no longer a Grand Old Party but a misguided group of people controlled by a Sociopath who cares nothing for anyone other than himself, our control may be lost forever.
"Are we living in Nazi Germany," was a question that Donald Trump asked a long time ago.
No Donald, We are not living in Nazi Germany,
Not Yet, at least. And if we are lucky enough to render you irrelevant in America I pray that my children and Grandchildren grow up in an America that continues to value Democracy.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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