Last week, 35 Senate Republicans k**led a bipartisan effort to create an independent commission to investigate the J*** 6 i**********n at the U.S. Capitol ― arguably the greatest attack on American democracy since the Civil War.

A week earlier, 175 House Republicans opposed creating the commission, too.

Why would any U.S. senator or member of Congress oppose an independent commission to investigate what led to a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol ― one aimed squarely at undermining American democracy and the peaceful t******r of p***r?

The reasons are as cynical as they are obvious: Most of these Republicans lied about the p**********l e******n being stolen from Donald Trump. That lie helped motivate a w***e s*********t mob of Trump’s supporters to smash their way into the Capitol ― some with plans to k**l House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vice President Mike Pence and others ― to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s e*******l win. Republicans don’t want a respected panel of experts publicly connecting these dots heading into the 2022 e******ns.

They also don’t want to get on Trump’s bad side by supporting a commission that would show, in detail, how his lie incited an attack on democracy that left five people dead, hundreds of police officers injured and countless others traumatized.

It gets uglier. Their party is counting on people to keep believing the lie. GOP-led state legislatures all over the country are using the lie to justify quickly passing bills to significantly restrict v****g in ways that would disproportionately hurt communities of color. Just this year, state lawmakers have already introduced at least 389 restrictive bills in 49 states and passed 22 restrictive laws in 14 states.

It’s no coincidence that the four states where Republicans have filed the most bills aimed at restricting v****g — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania — were some of the closest states in the 2020 p**********l e******n. As FiveThirtyEight notes, all four of those states went for Biden and have GOP-controlled legislatures, which makes them especially ripe for new v****g restrictions.

It’s also no coincidence that of the 147 House and Senate Republicans who v**ed in January to overturn the e******n, 139 of them also just v**ed to stop an independent commission from investigating the i**********n. It’s all connected. They attacked democracy in January and capped it off last week with a second attack on democracy, all in plain sight and with the intention of preserving the lie.

Here are the names of all 139 Republicans in Congress who sided with Trump and his lie instead of protecting American democracy. Twice.
If you care about America, please read https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/republicans-january-6-i**********n-191144155.html

Suggest to Biden to enshrine a statue of Floyd on front of the WH. That will embolden the B*M'S to commit more crimes. It is the avenue of making millions of $$$, and at the same time to be honored by the LIBS when arrested by the police office. . Now, police powers have limited actions, reduced by the LIBS elected. More ongoing victims of the B*M's are not reported by the MSM'S to shield their violence.

Then history will finally be reversed for their sakes, the mobs/thugs will celebrate and own the land drive those who've endeavored and fought to save their freedom. K**l those who succeed cause they are jealous. They could not cope up.

South Africa b****s have been k*****g and driving the White people who had the built and made the country modern. Now if these B*M'S continue, the CRT, and Project 1619, the cancel culture, this country will become South Africa. Drive away the w****s, and other races, only the dark skinned are left.

Candace Owens, one of the few righteous. I want her to run for Congress and the Senate. [/i]

Eagle, I saw Black people get k**led on television for no reason at all. If my child was k**led by police for playing with a toy gun, jogging through a neighborhood, or any other BS reason, I would be throwing bricks at the cops too! My bet is that few cops are engaged in these crimes, but those that do need to be tried, convicted and put in prison.
All this stuff about defunding the police is pure hyperbole. Nobody wants that, but a psychological exam before hiring would be a good idea. Police need to learn when to shoot, and when not to shoot. Retraining, and a close look at procedures like choke holds is needed as well.
I've always believed that those people that led the Confederacy were t*****rs. Many, like Robert E. Lee and other leading generals and others swore an oath to defend the US from all enemies can hardly be described as patriots. Statues of them should be taken down as they are highly insulting to African Americans.
Just because some Americans disagree with the majority doesn't mean that they don't love America. Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution, and exists to protect unpopular ideas, not just majority opinions. Popular opinions don't need protection.

America's national mythology is a story of inexorable progress. This narrative of progress is also a tale of hope, constructed on the belief that the American people are inherently good. In addition, America's national mythology is a story of perpetual reinvention, intentional forgetting and rewriting of the past, where democracy is taken to be a given, a special bequest to the American people from God. And of course, the American people and the country itself are somehow "exceptional" among the nations and peoples of the world.

These claims wither away under any serious empirical investigation or historical inquiry — that's why they are myths. It is not facts which give myths the force of meaning but rather the way people internalize them and make them true for themselves and the larger community.

Even the more sophisticated popular understandings of American history that include the fact that the country is a racial settler state, founded on the evils of genocide against First Nations people and the ens***ement of Black people, in which "white democracy" was the ideal norm, still emphasize an arc of progress and positive change. In those more nuanced stories, America is an "imperfect union" that is always striving, however difficult and complicated the work may be, to become a better nation.

On the Raw Story Podcast: Marcus Flowers
Marjorie Taylor Green's worst nightmare
The Age of Trump shattered many of these myths. It revealed that f*****m is not something "over there," but a toxic weed that can blossom in the United States. Black and brown folks and other marginalized people already understood this fact: W***e s*******y is itself a form of racial f*****m and authoritarianism. Such an understanding has been obligatory for their survival.

But many w***e A******ns and others who have bathed in the privilege of racial innocence were gobsmacked by the Trump regime's relentless attack on the country's democracy, rule of law, civil society, and governing norms and institutions.

Tens of millions of other Americans, the vast majority of them white, were shocked in a different way by Trump's ascent and what it wrought: It was a revelation and a dream come true. A leader and defender of "white civilization" and "real America" had finally arisen to speak for and protect "people like them."

In so many ways, the calamity of the Age of Trump has seen the story of inherent American progress, the goodness of its people and the permanence of the country's democracy run into a brick wall.

The American people can no longer deny that political monsters are real. These monsters want to o*******w America's secular and multiracial democracy and replace it with an American apartheid plutocracy. The monsters want to take away the basic human and civil rights of nonwhite people, women, L**T people, immigrants, liberals and progressives, along with any other groups they deem to be "un-American" and "the enemy." Across the country, this monstrous agenda is well underway. For all of the Biden administration's early successes, they occur under the ominous shadow of a right-wing terrordome, now nearing completion for 2022 and 2024 and beyond. Trump's c**p attempt and his followers' attack on the U.S. Capitol on J*** 6 is but a preview of what is to come.

The alarm about America's monstrous politics is being rung loudly. How will the American people respond?

Writing at the Daily Beast, Wajahat Ali describes these right-wing monsters and their agenda:

There is no civil war in the Republican Party — the Confederates won long ago.
Instead, we are witnessing the end of a long molting process as the GOP slithers into its final form: a counter-majoritarian, f*****t entity.
Republicans are shedding their masks and hoods, spitting out their dog whistles and outright embracing the Big Lie and the violent i**********nists, conspiracy theorists, and r****ts who make up the party's base and, increasingly, its representatives in Congress. …
Trump was not a cancerous growth but the end product of the party's decades-long molting process. He's the beating heart. He's Republicans' orange avatar, their unrestrained id, their boiling, festering rage that quenches its appetites while securing power and wealth by any means necessary. Democracy, rule of law, e******y, fairness, v****g rights are all unnecessary and cumbersome obstacles that must be either removed or weakened to achieve the ultimate goal: power for an overwhelmingly white, Christian conservative minority….
The Republican Party a few outliers like Rep. Liz Cheney and Sen. Mitt Romney belonged to "is dead," Ali writes. "It's over. Gone." The "final molting stage" of the new party will produce an entity that openly supports "violent i**********ns, lies, conspiracy theories, authoritarians, and r****ts," and "will attack democracy, v****g rights, the rule of law, our allies and the t***h."

In another important recent essay, Thom Hartmann warns that the Jim Crow Republican Party and Trump's neof*****t movement are led by psychopaths and encourage antisocial behavior:

There's something fundamentally different about psychopaths. And the failure to recognize that goes to the core of the crisis within the Republican Party — which has become a magnet for such people — and our overall political system today….
For America to survive as a democratic republic, we must restore the legal guardrails that keep psychopaths from entering, controlling or buying our political process. And we must hold the obvious psychopaths and their enablers — the Former Guy and those in Congress who encouraged and continue to baldly lie about the J****** 6th i**********n attempt — to account.
To reduce the power of psychopaths in politics, we must pass the For The People Act or similar legislation that psychopath-proofs our political system. We must stop them from continuing their efforts to rig the 2024 e******n.
Umair Haque reminds us that the monstrous politics that have taken over the Trump-controlled Republican Party are also global in scale, addressing the strange political self-immolation of the British working class, long a reliable v**e for left-wing parties and candidates, but now "v****g for its own self-destruction":

If you're working class, you need the following things: healthcare, retirement, affordable education, childcare, housing, and so on. The British working class began to flip conservative in 2007, and is now solidly ultra conservative. Why is that? Because the conservatives have convinced them that demonizing and scapegoating everyone else — foreigners, immigrants, all those h**ed "metropolitan elites," Europeans — for the lack of a functioning society matters more than having a functioning society.
It's important to call this what it is. Stupidity. Folly. Idiocy. There is no other word for it, and words shouldn't be minced. …
The problem isn't the Labour Party, and it's not politics at all. It's people. Brits have become violent, selfish, backwards i***ts. You know how the American I***t is a legendary figure around the world? Welcome to the British Buffoon. He's a figure that doesn't care about anything, will accept any level of indignity, any collapse in living standards — as long as he gets to wave the Union Jack, shake a fist at the world, and sing Brittannia Uber Alles….
What happens when people fail at democracy like this? Well, it's pretty simple. Democracy fails. A society becomes a failed state. Not in the way we're used to thinking of it — there's a c**p, there's a revolution, the army rolls in, the government collapses. But in a softer, altogether more dangerous way. Consensually. A country commits suicide as a modern, functioning society not with a bang, but with a million whimpers, shrieks of rage, howls of xenophobia, guttural snarls of nationalism. And soon, there's nothing left but poverty, despair, rage, and h**e.
The Age of Trump was and remains a type of cruel tutelage for the American people on the reality of political monsters and monstrous political movements. These t***hs cannot be wished away or made to disappear. These anti-democratic, antisocial and anti-human politics must be confronted and defeated.

To accomplish that goal, American neof*****m and Trumpism must be described using the moral language of right and wrong, good and evil. Without the correct moral language, civic evil is reduced to a question of "both sides" and "differences of opinion" and "just politics" instead of being understood as an existential threat.

The American people are quickly running out of time to save their democracy and themselves.

They must put aside childish, fairytale beliefs about the country's past, present and future. To this point, there is no clear indication that they possess the maturity to do such a difficult thing. The monsters are watching and waiting.

https://www.rawstory.com/right-wing-2653047453/

MMMM,, let me ponder for abit.. no answer right now...

how about.. when I signed on with OPP.. it was a bit different than expected.. then trump came along after all the h**e for Obama..

so, Maybe I thought I big fight about trump.. when we get rid of trump we will be done..

But NO, we got rid of trump, but nothing changed, removing the figurehead did not end the dispute, it only changed the point of focus.. no matter how long I hang around, we will never finish the squabble..

And so that makes it clear that I will never see the conclusion to this irritating dispute..

I have no idea if that is correct, but all I got for now..

Perhaps next week or month I will think of some other POV.. or not.. we shall see..