This is part 1 of 3 parts.
As a former Democrat, I admit to being surprised and maybe annoyed at how badly our party has done. Failure like that does not happen by accident, you have to work at it and be talented at failing. This talent comes in a variety of forms one of which is a consistent unwillingness to take a stand on principle. That is not the point of this blog post, which has a different purpose, except to say that I see no reason to think that the Democratic party, as it is formally defined in this country, has a prayer of being able to fix this many dimensional disaster. They had plenty of opportunity to serve their country and make changes to head off this situation and they chose one stupid reason after another not to do so. From Merrick Garland and Jack Smith's failure to competently prosecute the rapist pig to Chuck Schumer's choice to surrender the budget, we had literally hundreds of proofs that the Democratic party is not up to this fight.
Furthermore, I have no reason to think that the American people want democracy enough to fight for it either. I have seen example after example that shows that many Americans are stupid or venal or both. In fact it seems to be impossible to explain to the Trump supporter that it is not the policies of their rapist pig president we object to, although we do, it is the fact that they still support this asshole after all this. Trump will go away, but we will still have the Trump supporter and other idiots to deal with. I dont think that is going to work out so well and it is one reason why I am sure that this collapse into fascism will only get worse. America, as an experiment in government, has utterly failed and it is pathetic that so many people do not realize it.
The following is an incomplete list of things that have to happen to rebuild this country to a democracy. I do not think the list is complete, which is too bad, it is long enough. The problem I see is that I doubt that pretty much any of this doable, but I think they are all required. Every last one, not necessarily in this order. And in many cases there are probably "other solutions" that have the same effect as what I am proposing below. Maybe.
Furthermore, having been on top of these issues for 25 years and being more correct about what was going on than just about any politician I know of and certainly better at this than anyone I know, I am going to modestly and humbly suggest that I am more qualified than any of these wankers to suggest what has to be done. That wont happen, and I certainly wont get any respect, and this really is a waste of my time to even bother to write some of this up, but here we go anyway.
Part 2 and Part 3 will be here when they are written.
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