Being a Good Republican

For those frightened of progression, of becoming more than we are or have been, who think America can not be more or better, or who can understand the concept behind a "one-world government"... pathetic doesn't even begin to exemplify that orientation.

UPDATE, 7/20/20 - Portland attacked by Pres. Donald Trump.

A conservative brought this up recently, which is why I'm saying this.

Pres. Washington said: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world." FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1796 - stated at a time in history when the world at large was much, much smaller.

We are the United States of America in a "Great Experiment".

The world is getting closer and closer, smaller and smaller, as we all advance into the future. No matter how much conservatives and Republicans fearfully hold us back from our inevitable destinies. Earth will expand beyond this planet. Then what?

Washington could never have seen how small the world would get from his vantage point in the 18th century. As we look to move beyond such separated nations and beyond this planet. Making our world ever smaller and ever larger at the same time.

And so we have to reorient now before it's too late as moving people off-planet one day will magnify our differences, our isolationism, and our foolishness.

So how is it that our country in this great experiment is not a model for moving forward into a kind of global leadership, which Trump has moved us away from. Trump has diminished us, again, and again, and again.

If not us, who? Of moving toward a kind of global citizenship? It's all going to happen anyway. So should we prefer China or Russia as the model for this planet? Or America? We already were situated for that leadership. Until Donald Trump's massively failed leadership. Failed in so very many ways. Our greatest domestic danger in our leadership in US history.

Choose, or avoid, and by doing so, avoiding, we choose anyway. We've screwed this up before. In 2016, as those who objected and so didn't vote for the other party, cleared the path and allowed Donald Trump to become America's worst POTUS in US History.

Why are some fighting this evolution? And this transition into what we are inevitably going to transition into. Or instead, destroy ourselves avoiding it? This kind of United States of Earth?

We are proving it works. Here, in America. As messy as it can get at times and as destructive as it can be under an ignorant, self-centered, greedy little man like Donald Trump? A man who exacerbates our differences for his own purposes and gain rather than bringing us all together under our commonalities and citizenry? Where instead he divides us against one another. With not America in mind, but his own power and profit.

FEAR is not what one bases a political party on for the people.

It is what you base a political party on for elites, for authoritarians, for those who wish to "Lord" it over their "lesser beings", their perceived lesser citizens. Their minions, the wallets they wish to ravage.

There is your fear to wallow in and yet, those people continue to support this nonsense.

It's really rather amazing. Really.

But then victims in a domestic violence home fully understand this mindset of the majority of Republicans. The not wealthy ones. As would the brutalized spouse or children who counter-intuitively will cling to their abuser.

Just keep doing what you're doing. Be afraid of every noise and shadow. Fight for your rights you believe you are losing all the time, and yet...aren't. And ignore your rights that you ARE losing, and cannot even see them slipping so rapidly away as you turn your world over to authoritarians and bigots, racists, and short-sighted miscreants.

So, don't even bother to notice or fight for all the rights we are actually losing.

Because that's how one is a good Republican. And a good, New Soviet, Fascist Trump American.