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<\/p>\n[Note: Personal political opinion follows. I do not presume to speak for the Treehouse…]<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s no denying I\u2019ve been breathing easier, and had much more spring in my step, since Biden won Pennsylvania to become president-elect of the United States of America. In fact, I felt an enormous weight lift with that news, a feeling of oppression melt away, an oppression that\u2019s been with me for four year, since the DTs first set in. (Who would have thought that one man could cause so much damage? In 1930\u2019s Germany, sure. But not here<\/i>. Surely.)<\/p>\n
But has the nightmare really ended? DT hangs on, a child gripped by a tantrum; but is it just that? If only. He knows he’s lost\u2014the whole world knows it\u2014and still he continues to raise money, and to sow distrust of democratic elections. Is he planning a coup to stay in office? If you<\/i> were planning a military coup, what\u2019s the first thing you\u2019d do? Probably remove defense leaders who were resistant to your autocratic authority. Check.<\/i> Keep the top leaders of your political party in thrall because they fear your displeasure, and get them to act (to their eternal shame) as if nothing of significance had happened on election day. Check.<\/i> Lie, lie, and lie some more. Check.<\/i><\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Covid-19 rampages un<\/i>checked, and the presidential transition is obstructed, hampering the new administration\u2019s ability to hit the ground running to bring Covid under control. It\u2019s almost as if they want<\/i> Biden to face the pandemic at its worst, the better to cast blame.<\/p>\n
Note my choice of the word \u201cthey.\u201d It\u2019s not just DT, it\u2019s the Republican Party (save for a brave few who have spoken up) that\u2019s overwhelmingly complicit in this malevolent charade. It\u2019s disgraceful; it\u2019s unpatriotic; it\u2019s unchristian; it’s treasonous, really; and it\u2019s a very dangerous game they are playing with our democracy. The Cylons could not have done it better.<\/p>\n
We may be more dependent on the honor and oath of our military command than we (or I, at any rate) imagined would actually happen in real life. The day may come when the generals will have to say No<\/i> to their commander-in-chief when he orders them to choose between serving him, and serving the Constitution. I believe they are up to the challenge.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, we the people, if we want our democracy to survive, are going to have to be vigilant, indeed.<\/p>\n
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