The Grand Old Party We Thought We Knew. . .



"In the midst of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt included the following in his 1944 State of the Union Address:  "One of the great American industrialists of our day - a man who has rendered yeoman service to his country in this crisis - recently emphasized the grave dangers of the 'rightist reaction' in this nation.

"All clear-thinking businessmen share his concern.  Indeed, if such reaction should develop - if history were to repeat itself and we were to return to the so-called 'normalcy' of the 1920s -  then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on the battlefields abroad, we shall have yielded to the spirt of fascism here at home."

"Trump's Grand Old Party loyalists prove the Republican Party is now the anti-democracy party, trampling all over their own treasured legal principles of conservative constitutionalism: originalism and federalism." 

                                                   

There are seriously scary stories being circulated among the loyalists within the Grand Old Party.  They center around the metamorphosis taking place in the hallowed halls of the Party.  It seems there are strong moves to come out of the closet, and flat out announce that they want democracy in America to be on its way out the door. These Trump Loyalists are overtly letting the nation know that they are ready to prosecute a civil war in order to get things their way.


A few of these GOP desperados are: Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Mo Brooks, Louis Gohmert, and Donald Trump. . . to name but a few.  They appear to have decided our democracy needs to be tossed into the dustbin of history.  Many of these congressional "enemies of the people" need to be expelled from their jobs.

 

Several of these characters are under investigation for being deeply involved in the insurrection that took place at our capitol on Jan. 6th.  Their involvement, if the allegations are proven, would make them outright traitors to not only our democracy, but to our constitution and our national security, as well.

We hope the investigation doesn't fall through the cracks of the political brouhaha that is taking place in Washington these days. It's getting harder to separate the good guys from the bad guys without a program and constant monitoring.

We have a chance at a new beginning today.  Let's make the most of it and come together under the words and vision of our founding fathers.  Now is not the time to begin carving up our nation to fit the greed of a few!




 


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