The Loss of America

On September 13, 1926 30,000 white-robed KKK members marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. The second wave of the Klan had been nourished by Woodrow Wilson, an adamant racist from pre-bellum Georgia. No police barred their progress through the predominantly black city. Warren Harding had been poisoned by Klaven assassins to prevent his resistance to the Klan, however the following presidents weakened the KKK and they almost vanished from America, even though lynching, police shootings, and racial suppression has remained a mainstay of America life, especially with the rise of the Orange Jesus.

In 2008 Howard Dean orchestrated the election of Barack Obama by attacking the GOP in every state with a simple message.

Change.

His reward for this epic from the DNC was exile from national politics and Obama's cabinet was packed with rightwing lawyers and bankers, yet the message sold in 2012, however in 2016 Donald Trump read the hinterland and spoke about the evil of Washington.

The swamp.

Hillary Clinton, a longtime Barry Goldwater inside, had spent $600 million of a political campaign run by two Beltway conservative think tanks. retort to his message and while she won the popular vote, Trump won the election thanks to the Electoral College.

2020 wasn't his year, however he had formed a religious racist cabal who attempted to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021. This hardcore nazis dedicated to bringing America back the the 1950s and tomorrow doesn't look good for the Democrats who rejected any help from the party's progressives. CNN and Fox News have been preaching defeat to their fervent;y religious audience dedicated to the Second Coming of the Orange Jesus. The Democrats had nothing to offer

Nothing.

This afternoon I went to a Brooklyn polling station. It was closed for lack of voters. Defeat was a foregone conclusion thanks to the propaganda from the mainstream media and the Second Coming Fundamentalist preachers. Am I willing to admit defeat?

No."

Tomorrow I'll go vote at dawn.

At night I watch the TV hoping for an upset.

We stole the election once.

Why not against?

How Far From Now

On November 8, 2016 I was sitting at the bar at the Barnacle in Marblehead. The TV was showing the election results. The initial reports looked good for Hillary Clinton, however CNN swiftly charted the collapse of democracy as old Democratic stronghold in the Midwest fell into Trump's electoral count. By dawn victory was declared by the reality TV star and America was firmly in the hands of the GOP, despite Bill Clinton's wife having spent over $700 million on her campaign, nearly $600 million on political hacks.

Trump's motto MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN had resonated with the voters from the religious right to the Hassidim community and white suburbs threatened by equality and fearful of the War on Terror.

I walked away from the Barnacle, thinking, "We are so fucked."

In the morning my beloved Aunt Sally and Uncle Russ admitted that they thought the same, although they were too polite to use bad language, but we walked up to Fort Sewell where the view only changed with the light.

In the following weeks I scoured the results in suspect congressional districts without finding a blaring example of fraud other than the traditional suppression of black voters throughout the USA.

Turkey day came and went without incident.

We knew nothing was right and nothing stayed right for the following four years.

Trump was evil.

My friends believed in their god/king. I stopped speaking to most of them.

Separation of children of illegal immigrants, travel bans against Muslims, pardons of white-collar criminals, praising Putin and the North Korean dictator, anti-marijuana policies, attempts to repeal health care, tax cuts for the rich, deregulation of environmental protection, the Trump Wall of Mexico, attacks on Yemen, condoning white supremacists and terror against African-Americans, threats against Iran, support for fundamentalist terror of Saudi Arabia, Covid rejection ad nauseum delighted the Trumpards.

But Trump wasn't really American.

To him BLM was evil.

Defund the police was evil.

Old motherfuckers like me remember history.

2017

Trump paid $750 in income tax.

He scared the Germans.

2019. He practiced pardons.

2020. He lost to Joe Biden by seven million votes, but declared the election results were changed by theft.

His followers believed his claims and his legal teams attack everyone without success.

He was a loser, yet called on his followers to reject the truth.

On January 6, 2021 they attacked the Capitol Building, where the Senate and Congress were completing the tally for the Electoral Congress.

Chaos.

Mayhem.

Death.

And still the GOP called for fraud investigation.

Fuck them and the pigs they rode.

Because Gettysburg proved one thing to these scum.

"Fredericksburg. Frederickburg."

One defeat does not mean victory.

ps Fuck 12.