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There are many interesting lessons learned from the ongoing political crisis in America. Some were not at all a surprise but some were. Donald Trump has impressed by being a highly effective psychotic with solid insights into how to destroy his country to maintain power. This was not a complete surprise, what was a surprise was the impotence of the rest of the government which chooses to either violate their oaths of office or to pretend that the system "as normal" will self-correct these abominations. But they wont, and they cant.
I did not realize that Congress was completely powerless to stop an insane and traitorous president. There is very little point in contacting your congressperson, they dont care and there is nothing they can do anyway. I did not realize how easy it was to avoid congressional oversight. I did not realize that the Supreme Court conservative faction was completely corrupt. I did not realize that all Republicans at both the national and at the state level were always disingenuous.
The Constitution as written did not allow for the possibility of a major party that does not believe in democracy and is happy to seize power by any means available. Either the Constitution has to be rewritten which is impossible, or the Republicans must be removed from all positions of importance in our state and federal government which is impossible.
Even so, we should muddle forward and do what we can. Biden is better than people think he is and I am looking forward to see what he can do. All I can do about the current situation is to complain a lot and occasionally send a huge donation of $25 or so to a promising candidate.
Its a mess, and our elites made this mess, but I dont think they can fix it.
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