…and a Senate-Cleaning, too

Some of us are life-long Democrats and have always distrusted Republicans, based on the fact that Republicans have typically been selfish, oriented towards White supremacy, and socially irresponsible. Their views have dramatically worsened since the advent of the Tea Party in 2009. Their “I’ve got mine, and to hell with you, Jack” attitude has taken traditional Republican notions of support for limited government and free enterprise and put them on steroids. …

As we all know by now, Donald J. Trump was never a conventional politician or leader. We all know that he was a megalomaniac with a psychotic narcissistic personality disorder.

Starting with his infamous escalator ride in Trump Tower in 2015, he captured the imagination of dozens of millions of American by saying things that the rest of us wouldn’t; by doing things the rest of us couldn’t; and by expressing ideas that the leader of American democracy shouldn’t.

For four years, Trump and his lackeys gave us constant misogynistic, racist, religiously-intolerant, homophobic bashing of all who weren’t straight, male, American-born WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). These WASPs were the descendants of the so-called “Scots-English” who lived in the border between southern Scotland and northern England. They endured a thousand years of brutal, savage rule by the local nobility. When they came to America, they were themselves a savage race of warriors. …

David Hackett Fischer wrote Albion’s Seed in 1989. In it, he discussed in considerable detail the folkways of the settlers of the American Colonies who came from four distinct regions of Great Britain, and whose cultural traits are still deeply embedded in our county’s DNA.

The ones giving us the most trouble these days — the same as those who supported the Confederacy in 1860–1865 — were the so-called “English-Scots,” which gave rise to the Appalachian culture. These folks carried with them a culture forged in a thousand years of brutal conflict. …

Earth, about 4.5 billion years old, has had no life on it for about 65% of its existence.

Approximately two billion to 1.6 billion years ago, simple life forms arose: bacteria, prokaryotes (unicells), and eukaryotes. The last form of life is multicellular, and is the domain in which all animals — including humans — live. …

The kooks and crackpots — starting with the Current Occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue — have steadfastly refused to acknowledge defeat in the 2020 general elections.

Taking their cues from QAnon, Alex Jones, and other right-wingers and paranoid schizophrenics, the reactionaries cannot accept their electoral defeats, and, instead, have filed dozens of lawsuits in both federal and state courts, claiming, without the slightest evidence, that the elections were “rigged,” “fraudulent,” and “full of Democrat cheating.” The courts have rejected these 55 lawsuits and, in perhaps the biggest blow to President Donald Trump’s ego, the United States Supreme Court has rejected his desperation claims — twice in one week! …

…and that of his ardent supporters

President Donald J. Trump, by all objective standards, is a Loser.

He lost the 2020 Presidential Election; he lost the multiple court cases brought to overturn the election results; he lost the public opinion polls; he lost the loyalty of the majority of Americans; he lost the respect normally afforded to U.S. …

I have written about the massive demographic changes occurring in the United States these days, what has been called “the ‘browning of America’.” White people, as a group, have been taught, for centuries, to view our history from a Eurocentric perspective. White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant values were at the root of our success in the world. Tall White men, with guns blazing, rightfully dominated the little brown people living in Godforsaken places (you know, the ones with minerals and oil, and agricultural products that we could extract for vast profit), or so the histories read and the movies showed.

At times I have asked “What do we do with people who ignore facts and reject reason? Can we educate them to the point where we can have intelligent conversations and reasonable arguments with them?” …

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won their contest to be the 46th President and Vice President of the United States. That’s great news, but it’s tempered by the realization that a little over 70 million people voted for the current Occupant of the White House, President Donald J. Trump. That figure constitutes a larger voter result than Trump got in 2016.

After four + years of his incessant lies, hatred, bile, xenophobia, misogyny, and religious bigotry, haven’t we all had enough? Not all of us; more than 70 million people were happy to seek his reelection last Tuesday.

Have they no shame? Apparently not. …