Post election thoughts
My initial essay on this subject I did not publish. Here is my summary today, a few days later, after I have talked to a lot of people, read do news articles and thought about it a little.
The Democrats took over the House. They can now set the agenda for their committees, including the Judicial committee, getting rid of Grassley, who had nothing to say but partisan cliches. This will give them some power and, more importantly, a voice. They will have the power to investigate whatever they want but I hope they use it sparingly. We have an ongoing investigation by Mueller. My suggestion is that they do whatever they can to protect him, that they use his report as the basis for action, and that they focus on legislation that is needed such as their initial statement that they might pass a bill to repair our country's infrastructure.
More women were elected to Congress than ever before. When it is 50/50 with men it will be even better. In Africa, charitable organizations ended up giving aid only to women, because women distributed the aid fairly. Men tended to hoard it or sell it for profit. Perhaps women will turn out to be the fairer sex.
Michigan, Utah and Missouri passed laws that would give redistricting to a neutral formula or third party rather than a political party, hence getting rid of gerrymandering in those states. Hopefully all states will follow their lead.
Seven states switched from a Republican governor to a Democratic governor. This is a good sign that things are shifting gently to the left or toward the middle since most Republican these days are far-right. This also means more people will likely be eligible for Medicaid because most Democrats support the ACA.
So, now that you have read my positive thoughts a few days after the election, here is the blog I wrote immediately after the election.
Trump lost the election and I am afraid for American. Trump will attempt to subvert the rule of law in regard to himself and his family, and maybe his businesses. How the government and the citizens respond will be a test of our solidity. My greatest fear is the intervention of the military. So far, they have been neutral - except for going to the border to stop a column of asylum seekers and opportunists.
Trump, the Lying King, has accelerated his attacks on the press accusing them of producing fake news and denigrating them as people. Soon he will fire Mueller claiming his investigation is biased. The commission will be disbanded. The Mueller report will be leaked but since it has been vilified by the executive branch, unless the Republican stand up to support it, it will pass away without effect. The Republicans are the decision makers here. Either they support the rule of law or they support the rule of money and the white tribe. We’ll see. But their track record on upholding the rule of law is poor in regard to Trumpism.
Trump wants a sheriff that does what he is told rather than uphold the law and the constitution. He pardoned Sheriff Arpaio. This is a perfect simile of his firing Sessions and hiring Whitaker. The law is not the law, truth is not truth, liars calling honest reporting liars, despots and murderers are called friends(Kim Jong-un killed his brother, Duterte killed drug dealers, MBS killed Kashoggi, Putin kills ex-pats). The killing will start soon, I believe. Perhaps it already has in a way. The synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh is an anti-Semitic act by a white tribalist conspiracy believer. The pipe bombs were the same. These weren’t direct orders from Trump but his vilification of people of color, of critics, of women, and his rabble-rousing has unleashed these previously powerless people to strike out. They are murder by proxy.
As an emergency room doctor and a citizen my diagnosis is presidential psychosis. The treatment should be impeachment and long term incarceration in either a hospital or a prison. Let's get this done and get back to being a rational member of the nations of the world.
Thank you and have a good weekend.
All that said, my first blog was very negative.
The Democrats took over the House. They can now set the agenda for their committees, including the Judicial committee, getting rid of Grassley, who had nothing to say but partisan cliches. This will give them some power and, more importantly, a voice. They will have the power to investigate whatever they want but I hope they use it sparingly. We have an ongoing investigation by Mueller. My suggestion is that they do whatever they can to protect him, that they use his report as the basis for action, and that they focus on legislation that is needed such as their initial statement that they might pass a bill to repair our country's infrastructure.
More women were elected to Congress than ever before. When it is 50/50 with men it will be even better. In Africa, charitable organizations ended up giving aid only to women, because women distributed the aid fairly. Men tended to hoard it or sell it for profit. Perhaps women will turn out to be the fairer sex.
Michigan, Utah and Missouri passed laws that would give redistricting to a neutral formula or third party rather than a political party, hence getting rid of gerrymandering in those states. Hopefully all states will follow their lead.
Seven states switched from a Republican governor to a Democratic governor. This is a good sign that things are shifting gently to the left or toward the middle since most Republican these days are far-right. This also means more people will likely be eligible for Medicaid because most Democrats support the ACA.
So, now that you have read my positive thoughts a few days after the election, here is the blog I wrote immediately after the election.
Trump lost the election and I am afraid for American. Trump will attempt to subvert the rule of law in regard to himself and his family, and maybe his businesses. How the government and the citizens respond will be a test of our solidity. My greatest fear is the intervention of the military. So far, they have been neutral - except for going to the border to stop a column of asylum seekers and opportunists.
Trump, the Lying King, has accelerated his attacks on the press accusing them of producing fake news and denigrating them as people. Soon he will fire Mueller claiming his investigation is biased. The commission will be disbanded. The Mueller report will be leaked but since it has been vilified by the executive branch, unless the Republican stand up to support it, it will pass away without effect. The Republicans are the decision makers here. Either they support the rule of law or they support the rule of money and the white tribe. We’ll see. But their track record on upholding the rule of law is poor in regard to Trumpism.
Trump wants a sheriff that does what he is told rather than uphold the law and the constitution. He pardoned Sheriff Arpaio. This is a perfect simile of his firing Sessions and hiring Whitaker. The law is not the law, truth is not truth, liars calling honest reporting liars, despots and murderers are called friends(Kim Jong-un killed his brother, Duterte killed drug dealers, MBS killed Kashoggi, Putin kills ex-pats). The killing will start soon, I believe. Perhaps it already has in a way. The synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh is an anti-Semitic act by a white tribalist conspiracy believer. The pipe bombs were the same. These weren’t direct orders from Trump but his vilification of people of color, of critics, of women, and his rabble-rousing has unleashed these previously powerless people to strike out. They are murder by proxy.
As an emergency room doctor and a citizen my diagnosis is presidential psychosis. The treatment should be impeachment and long term incarceration in either a hospital or a prison. Let's get this done and get back to being a rational member of the nations of the world.
Thank you and have a good weekend.
All that said, my first blog was very negative.
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