A Universal Plea to Everyone

[RobertDevereaux]

WE MUST DESTROY the Republican Party.

By “we,” I mean all Americans of sanity, compassion, and understanding.

It is essential to do that so that the damaging course the GOP has pursued will be reversed. We need to weaken them swiftly so that the next—and God help us, far more effective and compelling—would-be dictator they will surely eventually try to force upon us has no chance whatever of taking power.

Essential it is too that the Democrats genuinely become the people's party.

The American system, running so smoothly since its inception, has clearly failed to provide safeguards against our takeover by authoritarians.

Once the ship is righted, we need to address that in ways yet to be determined.

Elsewhere, in my book First We Destroy the GOP, I’ve touched upon toxic and righteous “stories” about who we are as a nation, and how easy, tempting, and beguiling it is to adopt some universal story whole-hog without much thought at all.

One of my favorite empowering stories is this:

Because Trump so baldly lied when he took the oath of office at the inauguration, the blatant, oft repeated, and proliferating lies that followed render his subsequent acts moot, null, and void.

In the instant he so egregiously lied to us, breaking a solemn vow he never intended to honor—this dishonorable human being incapable of honor—he nullified his Presidency.

Mistake me not.

I’m aware that in strictly legal terms this foul hound of a motherfucker is President. But our belief in that goes a long way to normalizing it, and that’s something I’ll never do. There is no #45. Not yet. We have no president at all right now.

Trump is president of nothing. So stop believing the myth that he has power. He only has as much power as we cede to him, individually and as a conglomeration of citizens.

He broke his contract with us, which called upon him to serve all the people, not a subset of them.

The President of the United States is an employee of the people, intended to serve, not tyrannize over.

You, as one of those people, are an employer of whoever sits in the Oval Office.

Now, picture yourself firing him and hounding his fat fucking ass out of the White House. He’s incompetent and incapable. He’s unacceptable. He doesn’t do the job he was hired for. He operates entirely in bad faith. Bad faith is all he knows. Every day, he tries out new ways to destroy the fabric of our nation, whittling away at its foundations.

Please do not give up.

Don’t shrug your shoulders and opine with a sigh, “Oh well, we’re stuck with him until the next Presidential election.”

If enough of us—and I’m talking about a massive number, enough to wake us from the mass delusion that we’re stuck with him—fire Trump and deny him a legitimacy he doesn’t deserve, we can drive him into oblivion now!

When a nation falls into a perilous situation, one that threatens its existence, its citizens must start to think and act outside the usual constraints of thought and behavior.

We are there now.

Civil disobedience has become once more imperative.

The survival of our nation depends on it.

[BSdetect]

1. I agree all his appointments to SCOTUS ought to be rescinded.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Thank you, Devereaux

Very thoughtful and well written, imo.

It is an excellent call to action. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease."

[MineralMan]

3. The only way to destroy the Republican Party is

to convince people not to belong to it or vote for Republicans. Political Parties are not under the control of anyone. We can't make that party illegal, nor can we prevent it from fielding candidates for office. The Constitution prevents that.

What we can do is to field opposition candidates who are so strong that they will win, despite the existence of Republican candidates. That would accomplish the goal. We have not done so well with that method.

But, there is no existing mechanism to "destroy" a political party, especially one that currently has control of the White House and Senate. That is a pipe dream and diverts from the real goal, which is to help Democrats win offices. That is withing our power.

We should do what we can do, and skip fretting over what we cannot do.

[End Of The Road]

4. We ARE stuck with him until the next election, unless

Unless he resigns, becomes disabled by a health crisis, or (somehow) gets tried, convicted and sentenced to jail. Impeachment is a waste of time without the Senate votes to convict. And it certainly appears that the Senate wouldn’t convict no matter how heinous his crimes might become.

So what, exactly, are you suggesting we do other than VOTE HIM OUT? That’s what we are trying to accomplish, legally, and as peacefully as possible. Civil disobedience would work against that goal.