When voters elected Democrats to take charge of the national government in 2020—despite the efforts of some Trump supporters to stop that from happening—Republican lawmakers built on the anger the former president had whipped up among his supporters to impose a Trumpian vision on their states.
Before I commented on the controversy about "critical race theory," I wanted to understand what it was. Now that I'm better informed, let me summarize in a nutshell: Critical race theory argues that racism is not just a matter of conscious personal racial biases. Rather, because racism has been such a prevalent force in our society since it's inception, it is "baked into" laws and institutional structures of our society in ways that people do not always perceive, and that were not always intended, although the recent changes in electoral laws which, by the way, are a perfect illustration of critical race theory, are clearly intended to be racist. The laws can proclaim themselves to be race "neutral," just as did the literacy requirements for voting in the 19th century. But if the authors of such laws are well-aware that they will impact people of color more than whites, as was the case with the literacy requirements, as more blacks than whites were illiterate in 19th-century America, the laws are racist. In fact, they are racist even if the authors of such laws don't understand their disproportional impact on people of color. In other words, laws and institutions can be racist without mentioning race.
And while I'm at it, let me explain what it means to be "woke." The term denotes awareness of how race impacts everyone's life in America. I should add that to me, one should be "woke" to class and gender as well. In other words, I am aware that as a white woman, I have enjoyed privileges, including better treatment in public spaces, because of my skin color. If I had any doubts about that, my romantic relationships with black men over the years, beginning when I was 19 years old in college, made that startlingly clear to me. I have taken for granted over the years privileges that others have not enjoyed. Similarly, as a woman, I have been aware that men could do things - including, in 1980s France for example, open a checking account - that were much harder for women. When I began teaching at a university, institutional and implicit gender bias was rife everywhere, and I am sure this was also true of racial bias, although at the time I was not really aware of it. (Thank goodness my university has made immense strides since then.) If you are a poor kid and cannot get to the library because it's been relocated to a prosperous suburb, how can you take advantage of that public service? If you are gay and risk physical attack in some locations for holding hands with your lover or spouse, that impacts your life. There are many ways in which race, class, and gender determine the course of our lives. If you can't access books as a child, you are disadvantaged in applying for college. If you can't be with your significant other in public, you may feel compelled to turn down a good job offer in a location where people of your sexual orientation face violence in public. Critical race theory argues that these inequalities are institutionalized in our society.
Being "woke" simply means that you have become aware of this reality. The purpose is not to make people feel guilty or bad about themselves. I didn't ask to be born white or female. I didn't ask for the privileges the former afforded me any more than I asked for the benefits or difficulties the latter created for me. But if one is not aware of the institutional inequalities in our society, how can one take action to remedy them? That is the point of critical race theory, and of being "woke." It means that if we do not wake up, not only will our society continue to be unequal, but it will also be riven with racial, gender and class conflict.
The unequal laws we are passing now will have ramifications for generations to come, and will be a source of conflict in our society long after we are gone. And they will create two Americas, one of white privilege in states that, ironically, will become economically poorer and more backward businesses and educated individuals migrate to more progressive states. Those passing these laws are not doing themselves or their fellow citizens any favors.
The point about critical race theory or being "woke" is not to "wake up" to punish oneself or others. It's not about vengeance, although there are doubtless some angry folks who give that impression. It is about change and, ironically, in the long run, REDUCING CONFLICT in our society and world. That is what so many folks miss about calls for social justice. Much, probably most, of the conflict in our world derives from inequality and injustice, from folks who want more at the expense of others. We neither need nor will ever achieve perfect equality in our world. But to the extent we can work toward social justice and equal opportunity, at least, to that extent we can reduce conflict. It's going to become harder, not easier, to achieve social justice in the coming decades, due in large part to the immense pressures we are putting on our environment and natural resources. As is true of many things, climate change will impact the poor and people of color more than the rich. But social justice is not only a good in and of itself. It is in the self-interest of everyone, because it reduces conflict and less conflict creates the conditions for greater prosperity and wellbeing for everyone.
So my message here is very simple: wake up and work toward a more just and peaceful world, for you and for your descendants. You can't have prosperity without peace, and you can't have peace without social justice unless, as was said of the Romans, you are willing to make a desert and call it peace.
Full transcript of General Milley's response to the idiots:
"First of all, on the issue of critical race theory, etc. I'll obviously have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is. But I do think it's important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. And the United States Military Academy is a university, and it is important that we train and we understand. And I want to understand 'white rage." I'm white, and I want to understand it.
So, what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out. I want to maintain an open mind here, and I do want to analyze it. It's important that we understand that. Because our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians—they come from the American people. So it is important that the leaders, now and in the future, do understand it.
I've read Mao Tse Tung. I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding—having some situational understanding—about the country for which we are here to defend?
I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned and non-commissioned officers, of being quote 'woke' or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there. That was started at Harvard Law School years ago, and it proposed that there are laws in the United States, antebellum laws prior to the Civil War, that led to a power differential with African-Americans that were three-quarters of a human being when this country was formed. And then we had a Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation to change it. And then we brought it up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964—it took another 100 years to change that.
So look, I do want to know. And I respect your service, and you and I are both Green Berets (to Walz, not Gaetz - TC). But I want to know. And it matters to our military and the discipline and cohesion of this military.
And I thank you for the opportunity to make a comment on that.
Let's remember that the Republicans who wrote that report in Michigan are among the leaders of the move to "audit" the election due to the "questions" that have been raised - that their own report said are baseless and based on lies! They even called out the liars by name!
The cognitive dissonance on that one must weigh as much as a small asteroid.
It was Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, who said over a century ago that "The ballot is stronger than the bullet" and today the renegade Trump Republicans have taken the Great Emancipator's point to heart in their frantic efforts to suppress the vote and weaken the foundations of democracy and the rule of law with their gaslighting and manipulation of the structures of power. It remains to be seen how history will judge their quixotic maneuvers, but they should be aware that if they fail, and I pray that they will, the consequences of their actions will be harsh. For it was Lincoln who also said, "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." Power to the People!
“ to be open minded and be widely read.” I’ve read Mao, Marx, and Lenin too. And I think the anti democracy efforts, tactics, actions, and rhetoric of Republicans today, more closely resemble the demagoguery of those three aforementioned than they do any and all of the founding fathers and principles of the United States.
Ivanka and Jared are blatant opportunists without a shred of integrity.
They were pleased as punch to leverage evil Dad’s power to what they thought at the time would be their advantage but now that he is rolling head over heels toward the dumpster, they are keeping their distance.
A more revolting couple would be hard to find – unless Cruz and Graham decided to tie the knot, with J. Jordan and M.T. Greene as best man and bridesmaid.
I think that Critical Race Theory can be described mathematically using network theory, with historic social and economic inequalities forming the central node of a neighborhood cluster, where all nodes are interconnected, and all nodal inequalities are mutually reinforcing. The system is set up so that wealth accumulated in an earlier generation cannot be efficiently passed on to subsequent generations, because the social and institutional guardrails are largely missing. Families where social and institutional bulwarks are in place tend to succeed. Construction laborers have families, and children are encouraged to go into the family business, because that's what's talked-about at the dinner table. They become skilled tradesmen, who then become successful subcontractors; and as they become more successful, they become general contractors. The next generation attends college or technical schools, and they become surveyors, architects, civil engineers, amid the subspecialty within the overall profession. Maybe some of them become lawyers, accountants, bankers and financiers, or developers. As you can see, all of these occupations have interlocking connections to one another. I've personally witnessed all of what I'm describing. In Boston and Newton, Massachusetts, where I practiced law for fifteen years, the construction industry was dominated by people whose backgrounds were either Irish or Italian. These were substantial companies that employed hundreds of men and women. Their subcontractors were clones of the larger companies. These were third and fourth generation families, intermarrying, doing business with one another; they worshiped at the same churches, depending on which side of the family went where. Irish-Italien blended families were common, and altogether, these interconnected families formed the backbone of a substantial portion of the middle class in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Politics allowed for a lot of patronage, and so it went.
African-Americans had none of those avenues to advancement.
I was the Regional Attorney for the Federal Transit Administration which funded over two billion dollars of public transportation improvements. I stayed in that job for seven years, before transitioning into private law practice.
This occurred between 1978 and 1985.
We had an Affirmative Action program that had a 10 percent set aside for historically-disadvantaged minority and women-owned business. General contractors were required to partner with qualified disadvantaged or women-owned businesses; and therein lies the problem. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts had a minority business coordination within its Executive Office of Transportation and Construction, EOTC. This Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) coordination office kept a roster of then-currently qualified subcontractors that was supposed to assist contractors doing federally assisted work meet and do business with one another. The problem was in keeping the roster current, because registrants could go out of business at any time. Often the junior partner had been an employee of the general contractor he would be working with, and the tie between them was the federal grant. The MBE might have had no real independent existence; no capital; and certainly no track record as a viable business. Ergo, it could not qualify for the bonding and insurance obligations that the federal grant requires, the paperwork required for certifications, Wage and Hour requirements, and so on, was an additional burden. Different subcontractors might or might not share similarities in how well qualified they might be to be included in a contract bidders proposal package, but the common thread was that the federal contract they were bidding on was time limited, and they needed other work in order to stay in business. If they're not part of the overall landscape on a day to day basis, they would need some marketing strategy, even if they're working on the federal contract. It's not enough to be skilled in your own trade, you have to be a business person too. The bottom line with these set-asides is that, like academic race-based admissions to competitive colleges and universities, if they have the skills, qualifications, and capital needed to do the job, the set-aside loses its purpose to promote new entrants into the trade or business, because they can get the job on their own, without the state's help.
Bottom line. This is an intractable problem that government by and large cannot fix, other than by setting up training programs like a Conservation Corps, to train people the way that the military trains its recruits. But that presupposes that local schools are doing their job in preparing students to enter the work force. But that requires stable families in stable communities, with positive incentives toward learning, and a diminished emphasis on athletics as a career choice. The communities themselves need to articulate a vision of where they need to go. Critical Race Theory is grounded in our history of interlocking, mutually reinforcing societal, economic, and political restraints on African-American advancement. Those are part of the historical record and cannot be denied. But the communities themselves need to become the seeds for growing future success. Programs like the one I describe above generally fail in accomplishing their objectives because the social and community supports are lacking. Worse yet, gross inequalities are impoverishing families that just a few years ago would have been expected to succeed as a matter of course. Nowadays, if you don't already own a house, your chances of ever doing so are greatly diminished.
Question: How is this alone not game over for Democrats in 2022? "18 states have put in place more than 30 laws restricting access to the ballot. These laws will affect around 36 million people, or about 15% of all eligible voters."
Observation: Please look past the headlines on Critical Race Theory and instead expose the engine so effectively working to eradicate liberalism in all its forms
from colleges nationwide—PragerU. Along with conservative talk radio, PragerU is promoting the Fundamentalism that's ripping us apart.
So Florida's "conservative" governor wants to know what university students think so he can decide if they're being "indoctrinated." What's next? The thought police of Orwell's "1984"? Or is this just another Republican effort to gut a state university system, as Scott Walker did in Wisconsin?
The biggest and most consequential conflict of interest of all is having politicians decide voting laws. Why isn't anyone talking about the faulty planning of this and whether it should change?
Maybe Trump’s offspring are setting up to do to him what he did to his own father, setting him up as legally incompetent get full control of his assets.
I never had this level of fear and anxiety during Trump's 4 year term as I have right now. What I perceived as idle threats from the GOP after the election are coming true. The tag line of "we are going to lose our Democracy" is real. They came equipped to this war with ammunition, we came with folding chairs to sit on the sidelines to watch with our hands on our ass.
I read many sources for my news, all of which are now predicting an utter disaster for the Democrats in 2022. We have sat by and let the Republicans stack the deck for the mid terms as we politely clap for Biden.
The fox is in the henhouse and has been since before the powers of the Presidency changed hands.
Before I commented on the controversy about "critical race theory," I wanted to understand what it was. Now that I'm better informed, let me summarize in a nutshell: Critical race theory argues that racism is not just a matter of conscious personal racial biases. Rather, because racism has been such a prevalent force in our society since it's inception, it is "baked into" laws and institutional structures of our society in ways that people do not always perceive, and that were not always intended, although the recent changes in electoral laws which, by the way, are a perfect illustration of critical race theory, are clearly intended to be racist. The laws can proclaim themselves to be race "neutral," just as did the literacy requirements for voting in the 19th century. But if the authors of such laws are well-aware that they will impact people of color more than whites, as was the case with the literacy requirements, as more blacks than whites were illiterate in 19th-century America, the laws are racist. In fact, they are racist even if the authors of such laws don't understand their disproportional impact on people of color. In other words, laws and institutions can be racist without mentioning race.
And while I'm at it, let me explain what it means to be "woke." The term denotes awareness of how race impacts everyone's life in America. I should add that to me, one should be "woke" to class and gender as well. In other words, I am aware that as a white woman, I have enjoyed privileges, including better treatment in public spaces, because of my skin color. If I had any doubts about that, my romantic relationships with black men over the years, beginning when I was 19 years old in college, made that startlingly clear to me. I have taken for granted over the years privileges that others have not enjoyed. Similarly, as a woman, I have been aware that men could do things - including, in 1980s France for example, open a checking account - that were much harder for women. When I began teaching at a university, institutional and implicit gender bias was rife everywhere, and I am sure this was also true of racial bias, although at the time I was not really aware of it. (Thank goodness my university has made immense strides since then.) If you are a poor kid and cannot get to the library because it's been relocated to a prosperous suburb, how can you take advantage of that public service? If you are gay and risk physical attack in some locations for holding hands with your lover or spouse, that impacts your life. There are many ways in which race, class, and gender determine the course of our lives. If you can't access books as a child, you are disadvantaged in applying for college. If you can't be with your significant other in public, you may feel compelled to turn down a good job offer in a location where people of your sexual orientation face violence in public. Critical race theory argues that these inequalities are institutionalized in our society.
Being "woke" simply means that you have become aware of this reality. The purpose is not to make people feel guilty or bad about themselves. I didn't ask to be born white or female. I didn't ask for the privileges the former afforded me any more than I asked for the benefits or difficulties the latter created for me. But if one is not aware of the institutional inequalities in our society, how can one take action to remedy them? That is the point of critical race theory, and of being "woke." It means that if we do not wake up, not only will our society continue to be unequal, but it will also be riven with racial, gender and class conflict.
The unequal laws we are passing now will have ramifications for generations to come, and will be a source of conflict in our society long after we are gone. And they will create two Americas, one of white privilege in states that, ironically, will become economically poorer and more backward businesses and educated individuals migrate to more progressive states. Those passing these laws are not doing themselves or their fellow citizens any favors.
The point about critical race theory or being "woke" is not to "wake up" to punish oneself or others. It's not about vengeance, although there are doubtless some angry folks who give that impression. It is about change and, ironically, in the long run, REDUCING CONFLICT in our society and world. That is what so many folks miss about calls for social justice. Much, probably most, of the conflict in our world derives from inequality and injustice, from folks who want more at the expense of others. We neither need nor will ever achieve perfect equality in our world. But to the extent we can work toward social justice and equal opportunity, at least, to that extent we can reduce conflict. It's going to become harder, not easier, to achieve social justice in the coming decades, due in large part to the immense pressures we are putting on our environment and natural resources. As is true of many things, climate change will impact the poor and people of color more than the rich. But social justice is not only a good in and of itself. It is in the self-interest of everyone, because it reduces conflict and less conflict creates the conditions for greater prosperity and wellbeing for everyone.
So my message here is very simple: wake up and work toward a more just and peaceful world, for you and for your descendants. You can't have prosperity without peace, and you can't have peace without social justice unless, as was said of the Romans, you are willing to make a desert and call it peace.
Full transcript of General Milley's response to the idiots:
"First of all, on the issue of critical race theory, etc. I'll obviously have to get much smarter on whatever the theory is. But I do think it's important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. And the United States Military Academy is a university, and it is important that we train and we understand. And I want to understand 'white rage." I'm white, and I want to understand it.
So, what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out. I want to maintain an open mind here, and I do want to analyze it. It's important that we understand that. Because our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians—they come from the American people. So it is important that the leaders, now and in the future, do understand it.
I've read Mao Tse Tung. I've read Karl Marx. I've read Lenin. That doesn't make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding—having some situational understanding—about the country for which we are here to defend?
I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned and non-commissioned officers, of being quote 'woke' or something else because we're studying some theories that are out there. That was started at Harvard Law School years ago, and it proposed that there are laws in the United States, antebellum laws prior to the Civil War, that led to a power differential with African-Americans that were three-quarters of a human being when this country was formed. And then we had a Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation to change it. And then we brought it up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964—it took another 100 years to change that.
So look, I do want to know. And I respect your service, and you and I are both Green Berets (to Walz, not Gaetz - TC). But I want to know. And it matters to our military and the discipline and cohesion of this military.
And I thank you for the opportunity to make a comment on that.
Let's remember that the Republicans who wrote that report in Michigan are among the leaders of the move to "audit" the election due to the "questions" that have been raised - that their own report said are baseless and based on lies! They even called out the liars by name!
The cognitive dissonance on that one must weigh as much as a small asteroid.
It was Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, who said over a century ago that "The ballot is stronger than the bullet" and today the renegade Trump Republicans have taken the Great Emancipator's point to heart in their frantic efforts to suppress the vote and weaken the foundations of democracy and the rule of law with their gaslighting and manipulation of the structures of power. It remains to be seen how history will judge their quixotic maneuvers, but they should be aware that if they fail, and I pray that they will, the consequences of their actions will be harsh. For it was Lincoln who also said, "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." Power to the People!
“ to be open minded and be widely read.” I’ve read Mao, Marx, and Lenin too. And I think the anti democracy efforts, tactics, actions, and rhetoric of Republicans today, more closely resemble the demagoguery of those three aforementioned than they do any and all of the founding fathers and principles of the United States.
Ivanka and Jared are blatant opportunists without a shred of integrity.
They were pleased as punch to leverage evil Dad’s power to what they thought at the time would be their advantage but now that he is rolling head over heels toward the dumpster, they are keeping their distance.
A more revolting couple would be hard to find – unless Cruz and Graham decided to tie the knot, with J. Jordan and M.T. Greene as best man and bridesmaid.
I think that Critical Race Theory can be described mathematically using network theory, with historic social and economic inequalities forming the central node of a neighborhood cluster, where all nodes are interconnected, and all nodal inequalities are mutually reinforcing. The system is set up so that wealth accumulated in an earlier generation cannot be efficiently passed on to subsequent generations, because the social and institutional guardrails are largely missing. Families where social and institutional bulwarks are in place tend to succeed. Construction laborers have families, and children are encouraged to go into the family business, because that's what's talked-about at the dinner table. They become skilled tradesmen, who then become successful subcontractors; and as they become more successful, they become general contractors. The next generation attends college or technical schools, and they become surveyors, architects, civil engineers, amid the subspecialty within the overall profession. Maybe some of them become lawyers, accountants, bankers and financiers, or developers. As you can see, all of these occupations have interlocking connections to one another. I've personally witnessed all of what I'm describing. In Boston and Newton, Massachusetts, where I practiced law for fifteen years, the construction industry was dominated by people whose backgrounds were either Irish or Italian. These were substantial companies that employed hundreds of men and women. Their subcontractors were clones of the larger companies. These were third and fourth generation families, intermarrying, doing business with one another; they worshiped at the same churches, depending on which side of the family went where. Irish-Italien blended families were common, and altogether, these interconnected families formed the backbone of a substantial portion of the middle class in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Politics allowed for a lot of patronage, and so it went.
African-Americans had none of those avenues to advancement.
I was the Regional Attorney for the Federal Transit Administration which funded over two billion dollars of public transportation improvements. I stayed in that job for seven years, before transitioning into private law practice.
This occurred between 1978 and 1985.
We had an Affirmative Action program that had a 10 percent set aside for historically-disadvantaged minority and women-owned business. General contractors were required to partner with qualified disadvantaged or women-owned businesses; and therein lies the problem. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts had a minority business coordination within its Executive Office of Transportation and Construction, EOTC. This Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) coordination office kept a roster of then-currently qualified subcontractors that was supposed to assist contractors doing federally assisted work meet and do business with one another. The problem was in keeping the roster current, because registrants could go out of business at any time. Often the junior partner had been an employee of the general contractor he would be working with, and the tie between them was the federal grant. The MBE might have had no real independent existence; no capital; and certainly no track record as a viable business. Ergo, it could not qualify for the bonding and insurance obligations that the federal grant requires, the paperwork required for certifications, Wage and Hour requirements, and so on, was an additional burden. Different subcontractors might or might not share similarities in how well qualified they might be to be included in a contract bidders proposal package, but the common thread was that the federal contract they were bidding on was time limited, and they needed other work in order to stay in business. If they're not part of the overall landscape on a day to day basis, they would need some marketing strategy, even if they're working on the federal contract. It's not enough to be skilled in your own trade, you have to be a business person too. The bottom line with these set-asides is that, like academic race-based admissions to competitive colleges and universities, if they have the skills, qualifications, and capital needed to do the job, the set-aside loses its purpose to promote new entrants into the trade or business, because they can get the job on their own, without the state's help.
Bottom line. This is an intractable problem that government by and large cannot fix, other than by setting up training programs like a Conservation Corps, to train people the way that the military trains its recruits. But that presupposes that local schools are doing their job in preparing students to enter the work force. But that requires stable families in stable communities, with positive incentives toward learning, and a diminished emphasis on athletics as a career choice. The communities themselves need to articulate a vision of where they need to go. Critical Race Theory is grounded in our history of interlocking, mutually reinforcing societal, economic, and political restraints on African-American advancement. Those are part of the historical record and cannot be denied. But the communities themselves need to become the seeds for growing future success. Programs like the one I describe above generally fail in accomplishing their objectives because the social and community supports are lacking. Worse yet, gross inequalities are impoverishing families that just a few years ago would have been expected to succeed as a matter of course. Nowadays, if you don't already own a house, your chances of ever doing so are greatly diminished.
One question and one observation:
Question: How is this alone not game over for Democrats in 2022? "18 states have put in place more than 30 laws restricting access to the ballot. These laws will affect around 36 million people, or about 15% of all eligible voters."
Observation: Please look past the headlines on Critical Race Theory and instead expose the engine so effectively working to eradicate liberalism in all its forms
from colleges nationwide—PragerU. Along with conservative talk radio, PragerU is promoting the Fundamentalism that's ripping us apart.
So Florida's "conservative" governor wants to know what university students think so he can decide if they're being "indoctrinated." What's next? The thought police of Orwell's "1984"? Or is this just another Republican effort to gut a state university system, as Scott Walker did in Wisconsin?
The biggest and most consequential conflict of interest of all is having politicians decide voting laws. Why isn't anyone talking about the faulty planning of this and whether it should change?
Mark Milley slapped Matt Gaetz right in his grinning little face! Good for the general.
Lots of insights in this one🙂 It was fun to read about Matt Gaetz get bitch-slapped by generals.
Surveying college students and professors…WTF?
CRT is a theory, provable and testable.
Some guy shredding ballots and feeding them to chickens, then burning the chicken house is a fantasy. And a creepy one at that.
Maybe Trump’s offspring are setting up to do to him what he did to his own father, setting him up as legally incompetent get full control of his assets.
Thank you Heather.
I never had this level of fear and anxiety during Trump's 4 year term as I have right now. What I perceived as idle threats from the GOP after the election are coming true. The tag line of "we are going to lose our Democracy" is real. They came equipped to this war with ammunition, we came with folding chairs to sit on the sidelines to watch with our hands on our ass.
I read many sources for my news, all of which are now predicting an utter disaster for the Democrats in 2022. We have sat by and let the Republicans stack the deck for the mid terms as we politely clap for Biden.
The fox is in the henhouse and has been since before the powers of the Presidency changed hands.
I'm sick about this and fear for my friends.
Be safe, be well.