They’re Afraid

I know.

Ominous title, right?

Who’s they? Why are they afraid? And who or what are they afraid of?

We know who they are.

We know what they believe, what they do, what they fear, what they love.

They’ve made themselves pretty clear over the past four years.

And because of their actions, they’re afraid that their awful behavior is catching up to them.

They feel the heat as we continue watching voter turnout records shattering in Texas, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. They see the polling, and they’ve seen their former brethren turning on Derp Führer.

But of course, they always have to say something before fading to oblivion.

When one side’s views become so unpalatable that they have to strip the rights of ordinary citizens to vote, they resort to lies and intimidation.

They spread misinformation and bully others into acquiescence.

They separate and destroy families.

They appoint justices to the highest court who have no intention of following the law, hoping when the time comes that these judges will discard legitimate votes or prevent them from casting ballots at all.

They redraw districts, they purge voting rolls, even grind the government to a halt.

They dog-whistle, they race-bait, they tell the majority that they’re really the minority.

“Just give up.”

And when all of those ploys fail, they bulldoze the other party’s signs, they run busses off roads, they get the police to do their own dirty work, and tell their silent majority to police their own neighbors.

They tell you this because they know, they KNOW, you outnumber them.

They’re afraid because you will defeat them.

If turnout were close to even 70% of the population, the right would never win another election at the national level.

They’re too racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-democratic to win genuine support from anyone but their rich benefactors and loyal cronies addicted to perpetually reinforcing the ceilings of their own lives.

If this country does what it should do on November 3^rd, 2020 and oust President Dumpster Fire, then shit will dramatically change. Not because the Democratic Party wants to make strident reforms, but because their voters will demand them to make long overdue changes that frankly might be too little, too late.

No matter what happens, progress always wins.

Dinosaurs become fossils.

They always have, and they always will.