If by now you're not panicking and sinking into the watery depths of despair, you're either blind to the national calamity befalling us or you're one of the happy, calamitous few.
America is in the grip of an accelerating coup; a systematic, methodical upending of its constitutional — and constituted — fundaments; an interlaced collapse into brigandry and "official" lawlessness orchestrated by a relative handful of right-winging Robespierres and their rank-and-file lackeys. Everything is at stake, everything is at risk — and so far, everything is going to hell.
Consider merely the last 24 hours of our national decay. Building on four recent years of prototypical lawlessness, yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court decided — with no debate, no briefs, no lower-court rulings whatsoever — to peremptorily cast out every Texas woman's constitutional right to her most intimate womanhood. Just like that. Done. Gone — in one, unsigned paragraph.
The Court's decision was akin to upholding the Fugitive Slave Act, in that the ruling empowered every U.S. citizen to act as a kind of bounty hunter in the name of a brutal, anonymous state (and more to come). One dissenting Justice pronounced the decision "stunning"; another characterized it as, simply, "impossible to defend."
The ruling came from a Court tilted in its heinous majority by a U.S. president of unrelenting criminality but never removed from office by a crimes-sanctioning U.S. Senate led by the presidential crime family's enforcer who had earlier shredded the U.S. Constitution in denying a legitimate president his entitled choice of a Court appointee. Three national crimes ruthlessly compounded in one day.
Added to the Court's sympathetic celebration yesterday of the 82nd anniversary of European fascism's opening blitzkrieg was the U.S. House minority leader's declaration of authoritarian war on the rule of law. In response to a congressional committee's perfectly legal issuance of subpoenas in the furtherance of investigating the Robespierres' Jan. 6 insurrection, the minority leader committed witness tampering and obstruction of justice. And he'll get away with it.
Why? Because the lawful, "reasonable" and majority opposition in Congress is fucking AWOL. Two-thirds of a year have passed since a small minority staged a violent assault on the very heart of American governance — the majority's home — and yet sedition's principal engineers and chief defenders remain untouched, with some of them actually sitting in Congress and openly advocating yet another violent insurrection. Hence a felonious minority leader is a trifling.
Plus — and again — eight months now and the Justice Department still has not announced a weighty investigation into a blatantly criminal presidency and post-presidency which, by the way, is still instigating and inciting rebellion against the United States government. Oh my, such an investigation would look political — for Christ's sake, isn't rescuing our politics the whole point? — and it might displease the rebellious minority and bloody insurrectionists. Can't have that!
So we have an indictable House minority leader and a Constitution-ripping Senate minority leader quite comfortable with a lackadaisical congressional majority; a former president steeped in constant criminality and yet free as a bird; more post-presidential insurrections to come; and, above all else ...
we have Republican state legislatures rigging future federal elections — to be condoned by a runaway, fascistic Supreme Court presently occupied with assaulting 51% of the U.S. population — which will promote both minority leaders to majority leaders in 2023 and guarantee Orbánlike authoritarianism in 2025.
Have a nice day. Which you can do only if you haven't removed the blinders and water wings.