Debate has ended
Politics in America has changed. The debate has ended. The president, Republican Senators, and Representatives, realizing they have lost every argument based in fact and reason, have strapped on their guns, stopped talking, and are headed for the street. Lawlessness is the strategy. Gerrymandering, rule breaking, and lies are the tactics. Authoritarian rule is the prize. If they win this prize, we will lose America as a free, democratic state.
Our country was founded with the rule of law and civil discourse to settle arguments. In the legislature one side argues against the other but in the end both sides are part of the same structure, the same country, and the same world. It feel now as if the two sides are farther apart then they have been since 1858, the lead up to the civil war. Perhaps this has happened because we are a diverse nation. Large segments of our population have pledged their primary allegiance to something other than making our country work well, to something ot...