It's really become ridiculous, hasn't it?

I heard the arguments, back in 2020, when Democrats held the White House and both houses of Congress, about the dangers of doing away with "safeguards" like the senate filibuster, which allows the minority to shut down a lot of legislation pushed by the majority.

"If we do that, then we have to think of what they are going to do if they get back into power."

That's weak minded thinking. Of course they are going to do it. They, being the extremists who now control most of the Republican party, are going to use tools we refused to use because Democrats still believed that everyone should act with a measure of decorum and civility. But all we are going to get from doing this is grief, and we now have to sit back and watch as the far right, unrestrained by decorum and civility, and motivated by hatred based largely on inaccurate and untrue conspiracy theories, dismantles American democracy.

The far right is rapidly moving to close the windows on those aspects of our democracy that permit voters to exercise our will. While Democrats keep talking like the midterm elections are going to take place as normal,, and that the party appears to be gaining enough favor among voters to win a majority of seats, at least in the House, the far right is taking necessary steps to cheat on the election results.

Let's say we win back control of both houses during the midterm elections. We have some Republican pundits predicting they will lose 40 seats, I don't see that happening, but 15 is a real possibility. The Democratic leadership, with their language, fundraising and disastrous lack of initiative from the DNC, has already conceded the Senate, based on past trends, but let's just play the game for a moment, and say we get a two seat majority.

What I would expect would be a clean sweep of objectives. Shut down the administration, cut their budget for everything that can be cut, ignore the sitting President, his cabinet and his cronies, get rid of the Senate filibuster, block every judicial appointment, and thwart every initiative. Do everything legislatively possible to make the prospect of the next two years miserable enough to make Trump resign. And, do everything possible to let the American people know they need to come up with a revolution at the ballot box in 2028 that will put a government in place to prevent this kind of thing from ever happening again.

We have a huge job, restoring and reparing the damage Trump has done. I'll be expecting my legislators, those who want my vote, to take the hard partisan line on everything from taxing billionaires to erase the national debt, to instituting a single payer, nationalized health care system like Canada has done so successfully. Fix Social Security so that the incomes are liveable.

It's time to stop living the lie and restore American to the values of its roots.