The handmaid hands the GOP their dream
and the failure of the Democratic National Committee
This clip comes from an article in the New York Times regarding the current Supreme Court’s hearing oral arguments for the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The state of Mississippi is looking to take the Constitutional right of a woman’s right to choose away from them therein giving the state the right to set their own abortion laws circumventing the federal law of Roe v Wade.
This process has been a long term calculated effort on the part of the GOP for years. It began to take shape with the Koch Bros’ campaign for Citizen’s United, in 2010, during the Obama administration. Prior to that, in 2009, the Republicans made a calculated effort to test the waters of the new President and the Democratic lead House and Senate, when Congressman Joe Wilson(R-SC) blurted out “You lie!” during the first joint house session of Congress. It was then that the GOP, most specifically Mitch McConnell(R-KY), knew that he could get his dreams complete in a short period of time. The fact that Obama simply let the comment slide let McConnell know then that he would be able strong hold the administration. What Obama wanted was to be a middle of the road guy. He wanted to show his balance and ability to cross the isles in order to make the country a better place. His views of the country were skewed by his naievity.
What he might have thought about doing was to kick out the freshman Congressman Wilson telling him that his antics were uncalled for and he should leave the room. His room. As President, Obama had a leadership moment and he let it go. He had an opportunity to make an example of Wilson to show just how much Obama would not bend to the racism and politics of the GOP, but he lost that opportunity. McConnell saw this and knew then he would play hard ball when given the chance. And hard ball indeed did the GOP played and they have not stopped since.
The GOP is a well run political machine, whether you like their antics or not. The DNC has been progressively failing in their political prowess since democratically elected President Al Gore walked away from baby Bush’s childlike antics to sue for the presidency. That also helped seal the deal for the GOP in knowing how deep the chasm the DNC is. Quite deep.
Only a few years was all it took for the GOP to retake the Congressional leadership and Mitch was back on top. He then spent the rest of the Obama years withholding any federal judge positions to be filled by the Obama administration. Mitch was banking on a return of GOP power to which a then Republican administration would fill the judge seats as they saw fit. McConnell would not have liberal judicial benches filled under his watch. He dragged out his strategy through the Obama administration for seven years. This paved the way for the GOP to gerrymander the hell out of 19 states to a point of seemingly no return for a true democratic process.
The combination of these factors has since created a juggernaut of political machinery in the GOP that has not been seen in this country. As the DNC failed to see the true desire of the American people and silenced the most popular voice in the nation at the time. Senator Bernie Sanders(D-VT), who was filling stadiums with people to hear his rally cry, the DNC instead replaced the seeming desire of the American people with a publicly tainted Hillary Clinton as their dream spokesperson it was over. However you feel about Bernie or Hilary the DNC failed leaving the onslaught of the multitude of millions of Bernie supporters dumbfounded and frustrated with the party.
Trump then slipped right through the racist cracks of America that Joe Wilson, Mitch McConnell and the GOP had pried open with careful strategy creating a perfect storm of an opportunity to fill over 30% of all federal judge benches across the nation. The pussy grabbing Trump was also blessed with filling 3 lifetime appointment seats to the United States Supreme Court. Thereby solidifying a conservative Court for at least a generation.
We are in this position because the democrats have failed at politics. It is clear that the GOP, as an entity, will stop at nothing including unfathamable bigotry, racism and corruption at the highest levels to turn this country back to 1840 when the black or any non-white persons held no rights and women were simply handmaidens. We see the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as Trump’s pick, Amy Coney Barrett, continues to throw women under the bus leaving a trail of tears of slaves to the kitchen.
As per the GOP, if you aren’t a rich, white guy you can go fuck yourself.
It’s funny because statistically the 32% faithful followers of anything Trump are mostly uneducated, white men who live with the fantasy that their party gives a shit about them whatsoever. When Mitch McConnell has thrown that demographic under the proverbial bus for nearly thirty years during his tenure. Allthewhile, on his Senator salary has gotten extremely wealthy.
This is nothing to say about how Reagan dismantled the (1949)Fairness Doctrine through the advent of cable television technology vs broadcast therein laying the roadmap to create the disinformation machine that FOX and all of the rich, white, racist, bigoted talking heads that fill that network.
This has been a long game and the GOP have shown their masterful racism and bigotry that has since dominated the American political landscape.