Fascist Oriented Government

Texas Violence Escalates With No Regulations, Totally Insane!

Ronald 1 Comment

With yet another mass gun murder in Texas this past weekend, the image of Texas suffers ever greater, as it has become the most violent state, and without any idea of gun regulation, other than being a citizen and being a minimum age of 21!

Anyone can carry a firearm, including AR-15 assault weapons, in open carry legally, and there is no consideration of training, licensing, or mental health challenges, and nowhere where firearms are considered illegal to carry!

And the leaders of Texas government, including Governor Greg Abbott, the lieutenant governor and attorney general, and really, all Republicans in the state legislature, and the Texas members of the House of Representatives and US Senate, are all united in just mouthing “thoughts and prayers”.

This is purely insane, and the carnage is increading rapidly, and nationally, there have now been 201 gun massacres in 127 days of 2023!

In Texas, but really everywhere in America, no one is safe, whether in a school or college; a supermarket; a church, synagogue or mosque; a shopping mall; a movie theater; a country music festival; or a myriad of other public places, as well as the danger lurking in private homes by unstable family members who have access to weapons of mass murder!

To have no willingness to regulate guns, when Republicans are very willing to limit drag shows, to ban books, to outlaw discussions of race and gender in schools and universities, to restrict voting rights, and so many others government interventions, is a total outrage that calls for mass demonstrations and demands for action!

But of course, these same Republicans want to limit the right of the people to freedom of speech, and assembly, and this makes it clear we are dealing with Fascist oriented governments that do not care about the health and safety of their own citizens, and non citizens, alike!

No other nation has any sense of gun violence that is totally unregulated and out of control, and this makes America look like a nation that is, clearly, the most dangerous nation in the world, bar none!

And young people are being slaughtered on a level unmatched even in war zones, as America has become a national war zone!

America Is In The Most Dangerous Constitutional Crisis In All Of Its History, More Than 1860 Or 1932!

Ronald 4 Comments

Shocking but true, America has just entered into its most dangerous constitutional crisis in all of its history, more than 1860 or 1932.

The Civil War has always been regarded as the most difficult moment constitutionally, as the Civil War was on the horizon, but Abraham Lincoln won the election, and was inaugurated peacefully on March 4, 1861.

The Great Depression was at its worse at the time of the election in 1932, but Franklin D. Roosevelt won the election, and was inaugurated peacefully on March 4, 1933.

Both Lincoln and FDR faced assassination threats, but both survived and became our greatest Presidents.

Other times, we have had contested or close elections, as in 1800, 1824, 1876, 1880, 1916, 1960, 2000, and 2016, but always there was a peaceful transition of government from one President to another, without rancor.

But now, yesterday, President Donald Trump indicated that he would not guarantee a peaceful transition of power, that the mail ballots should be thrown out, and his administration continue in office beyond January 20, 2021, and that an extra Supreme Court Justice might be enough to rule in Trump’s favor. Also, there are plans behind the scenes to have Presidential electors in many swing states be convinced to support Trump in the Electoral College, even if Trump is seen as losing the popular vote in many states.

This is alarming, and presages a constitutional crisis that would be worse than 1860 or 1932, and a move by Trump to destroy the Constitution and rule of law, and the establishment of an authoritarian Fascist oriented dictatorship!

It means we have a tense 40 days until the election, and a potentially tense 78 days to Inauguration Day, whereby Trump could declare martial law, or we could have both Trump and Biden coming to Inauguration Day as the perceived winner by their own camps, and how that would be handled.

Our system of government has always been based on the loser accepting defeat, not being a sore loser, and not threatening to provoke violence by his supporters, but Trump is already doing this at his no mask, no social distancing, rallies, an alarming development.

This is a moment of reckoning for all elected Republicans, that while they want to compete to win power, that they have to respect the Constitution and rule of law, and NOT support a renegade President, if the election results are clearly in favor of Joe Biden, as is expected.

We have to hope that Biden wins by a massive margin, as otherwise, we are in uncharted territory, and even if it is a massive victory, Trump might claim it is a stolen election, and throw it to the courts, and a newly appointed Associate Justice could be the decisive factor in deciding whether we retain our democracy.

The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ironically, could be a major turning point in American history in a negative fashion way beyond the passing of this great woman!

We cannot allow that to occur!