Many finger trembling articles have been written about the tyranny of the political minority. Phrases like real America have been co-opted by insidious groups of pseudo-conservatives who believe fascism is a viable governing strategy. Now it is time for real America to fight back. Fascism is not a viable strategy; it is a selfish one. Republicans’ fear of the majority is palpable, but the majority has not recognized it yet. Fascism is meant to consolidate power by choking the throats of dissenters. Calling an authoritarian, an authoritarian, a xenophobe a xenophobe, or a racist a racist is not a hollow insult; it is the truth.
Almost fifty percent of Americans identify as either Democrats or Independents, with only 26 percent calling themselves Republicans this past April. More than 70 percent of Americans believe in a woman’s right to abortion—over fifty percent of Americans favor changes in gun laws. That number has fallen mainly due to minority Republican opposition. The central tenets of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, reducing child care costs to—seven percent of household incomes, reducing the price of medicines; and tax cuts for the middle-class, are supported by more than sixty percent of the American people. Yet President Biden’s favorability has fallen to forty-four percent. Not because he approvingly, by the majority, withdrew from Afghanistan or reduced childhood poverty in the last six months or has gotten 80 percent of the country to take at least one vaccination shot but because the tyrannical minority says so.
“Every single year, more than 600,000 people in the US die from cancer,” tweeted Marjorie Taylor Greene. Keep in mind, this is a political minority populated by a group of the silly-sounding reprobate who pretend not to understand the differences between a disease like cancer and a contagion like Covid-19. The problem was not the first half of Greene’s tweet but her conclusion where she went on to write, [and] “The country has never once shut down.” Comparing cancer and Covid-19 was so foolish that Greene was lambasted by conservative publication Forbes magazine. Yesterday, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz sounded the warning horn. If Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives, the GOP plans to reallocate power. Giving power, according to Gaetz to Jim Jordan, credibly implicated in a college men’s wrestling team sex scandal, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who may be still waiting on space lasers she connected to Jewish bankers, Paul Gosar, whose unhinged rants have estranged him from his own family and Gaetz himself, who is accused of paying a teenager for sex.
Setting aside the peccadillos, alleged criminality, and moral failings, the biggest threat to democracy was the Republicans’ plan to Begin The Steal. By hook or by crook or threat, the Republicans now say they will steal the midterms in 2022 and the general in 2024. Real Americans can no longer stand back and stand by. Democrats need to take command of the bully pulpit for as long and as loudly as we hold it. Take to the airwaves and stop being halted by fake decorum and civility. Paul Gosar is a fool—say it, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are gun-toting anarchists—say it, and Matt Gaetz is an accused sexual predator, where are you, QAnon folks?
I know it may sound harsh, but I have decided that operating from a position of fear is returning me to the time of my great-grandmother. She was a black woman who could not vote until she was sixty-five years old, and I am not going back quietly.
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