QOTD -- Rise Up

 

"Texas this week showed us what a post-democracy America would look like.

"Thanks to a series of actions by the Texas legislature and governor, we now see exactly what the Trumpified Republican Party wants: to take us to an America where women cannot get abortions, even in cases of rape and incest; an America where almost everybody can openly carry a gun in public, without license, without permit, without safety training and without fingerprinting; and an America where law-abiding Black and Latino citizens are disproportionately denied the right to vote.

"This is where Texas and other red states are going, or have already gone. It is where the rest of America will go, unless those targeted by these new laws — women, people of color and all small “d” democrats — rise up." -- Dana Milbank in the Washington Post today.  That rising up must begin now and carry through the off- year elections in Virginia and New Jersey, the recall election in California, the mid- term elections in 2022, the general election in 2024, and in every state and local election from school board to county clerk.  These Christo-fascist Republicans must be hammered down again and again if we're to keep our fragile democracy.  They must not be allowed anywhere near the levers of power in this country.