“...Advise, and Consent”

Senator McConnell’s a smart bastard. Watching this it’s clear Liberals, and traditional Conservatives have things in common. I mean besides running slave camps on Mars. They generally…mostly believe in the rule of law not men. Remember it was GOP bigshots that told Nixon to hit the road,…and he did. This because both he, and they were bottom-line constitutionalist. 

Sure they’d over turn the Civil Rights act if they could,…but can’t so they just chip at it. Still they mostly go by the game plan cooked up by the founding slave owners. Them guys back then while crunching the numbers on the Constitution. They were aware that the mob would from time to time install a demagogue. We’ve had several. 

Jackson, and a few others deliberately ordered genocide against the Native folks. Rutherford B. Hayes dealed his way in by destroying Reconstruction, and allowing the Klan, and Jim Crow to spread. Kennedy’s dad basically bought his kid the election,…or so it looked at the time. Politics is as entertaining as it is dirty.

However #45 was the only one that tried to overtly overturn an election he lost. That, and install himself possibly for life. Tho’ actually I don’t think he thought that far ahead. Like he didn’t think he’d be elected in the first place. Thank gawd he was a fucking dummy. 

Where was I? 

Right…the GOP. Their civil war between #45 cultists, and traditional Tories will be very interesting to watch. An education on our Constitution. Like McConnell’s speech where he condemns the Capitol riots, and murder yet acquits. He also made sure the trial was after the Inauguration guaranteeing acquittal,…smart bastard. This will be very interesting. 

I believe in a balanced governance. The extremes of recent decades will pass as the troubles that made them will. I retain my sanity by looking to the long road. The peaks, and valleys of history. Our original sins of Genocide, against the Natives, and Slavery both with long cruel aftermaths is still is slow play. There has been grudging progress. 

What we were in 1950 when I joined this story is not what we are now. My great grand niece will be born into yet another history as I now live in one noticeably different from the one I was born in.