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Sharp n’ Blunt

Today’s Republican Party Doesn’t Fear Political Retribution Because They Will Never Relinquish Power Again

By Desi Cortez Columnist

What civil right, what human right, is next? What social advancement attained in the 1960s will be erased?

May 5, 2022 4 min read Free to read

The larger picture: The January 6th insurrection was deliberate, pre-planned and orchestrated – it wasn’t a one-time emotional event, but instead the first treasonous step in a long-running coup d’é·tat. The “Right” in America has a goal: it is to wrestle, strong-arm and snatch power away from Democrats and the “Left” by any means required. This Supreme Court and the folks who illegally handcrafted it…by repelling Roe vs Wade are indicating, no, actually screaming with all their might, that they’re willing to ram their way of life down our throats.

And that small, simple-minded Uncle Tom, Clarence Thomas, the useful, willing idiot, will help them do it. There must be a special place in hell for this treasonous you know what…. (thank God my editors won’t let me say it.)

This devilishly mean, nasty and just plain old cruel 21st-century version of the Republican Party doesn’t fear political retribution, consequences nor repercussions because they’ll never relinquish power again. Never ever, never.

They are, instead, willing to install, and force down the throats of the American people, their leader, who will then dismantle the monumental advancements fought for in the 20th century. Remember, they will take Lord Putin over President Kamala Harris or President Elizabeth Warren.

Just say “President Michelle Obama” and watch their faces turn burning cross red.

Most of Conservative/Libertarian minded WASP America will be delighted to live under a King’s rule, as long as that king is a like-minded White person, (preferably a male). They are content to rule the nation via minority rule, as South Africa was governed for decades. Ponder, ponder…ponder this: White South Africans were but 5% of the country’s population, nonetheless they ruled over, oppressed, pimped, exploited, and waged slow genocide upon the 95% Black population for decades… Please understand that’s the blueprint millions of Trumpians dream, on a regular basis, a couple of nights a week.

South African Apartheid in a nutshell: Passed laws and apartheid policies which prohibited Black people from entering urban areas without immediately finding a job. It was illegal for a Black person not to carry a passbook. Black people could not marry white people. They could not set up businesses in white areas. Everywhere from hospitals to beaches was segregated. Education was restricted.

What civil right, what human right, is next? What social advancement attained in the 1960s will be erased? If you recall, White America basically opposed everything. If they had had their way, and this is real, it’d still look, smell, taste and feel like we were in 1959 – all of us in the “back row” seats they assigned us.

Today, this week, it’s a woman’s “right to choose,” to control her body. Next time, next month, it will be a Black person’s right to be treated with respect and dignity… something they’ve never honestly accepted. Voting will be made so difficult and gerrymandered that it might as well be illegal. Labor Unions will be dismantled by delusional White workers who would rather hurt themselves than help the little people. The LGBT folks will have to go back into the closet, if not the root cellar. And yes, you bet, there are already calls for this Supreme Court to Overturn Brown v. Board next…

I can’t think of anything I just listed that today’s GOP wouldn’t go along with. Hell, they’re burning books as we speak.

Listen, the Cult of Trump – DeSantis, MGT, and Matt Gaetz and their unwashed masses won’t stop this time around until they “right” America, and return their empire to its historical, traditional “comfort zone” of separate and unequal in all matters that matter.

Barefoot and pregnant, relegated to the back of the airplane, last 5 rows, by the bathroom…. Sundown laws are on the horizon and the “No Mexicans, No Blacks, No Jews, No Dogs” signs which were never thrown away but instead placed in the basement, hoping they would be usable again, are now being dusted off.

The Right (enraged White males and their females) will arrogantly disregard the nation’s demands, as well as the civilized world’s pleas, to halt the dismantling of what was supposedly humankind’s best attempt at constructing a civilization. Their rationale: America was designed for only White men…and their women. Everyone else, everyone else is a visitor, an unwanted and unwelcome guest, a squatter who ought to consider themselves lucky and blessed that White America allows them to live here.

Band! One more Time: This devilishly mean, nasty and just plain old cruel 21st-century version of the Republican Party doesn’t fear political retribution because they will never relinquish power again. Never ever, never.

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