What is left to say?

Blog posting has become mostly unpleasant. It used to be mostly fun. The gravity of the bigoted, corrupt authoritarian MAGA threat cannot be ignored or understated.

More or less the same anti-democracy threats are being reported every day now. MAGA is steam rolling its way to full-blown dictatorship and kleptocracy. MAGA lies no longer faze anyone in the MAGA movement. That's been the case since ~2018. Opponents can't do anything to stop it. The Democratic Party is broken, in chaos, and has almost no power. Democratic Party has significant internal divisions, and it struggles to unify around a clear direction or message, or cohesive leadership.

Discouragingly, MSM still refers to MAGA as a normal thing such as "conservative." Our broken MSM fears use of the accurate labels kleptocratic and authoritarian, autocratic, plutocratic or Christian nationalist theocratic. Or it is quietly sympathetic/co-opted. So, the MSM can't or won't speak the name of evil. In lieu of honest reporting, we mostly get click bait about Epstein stories, Marjory Taylor Green blithering about whatever deranged fever dream she is having at the moment and other irrelevant fluff. 

Meanwhile, MAGA elites are in the process of weaponizing the US military for use against American citizens who publicly oppose the dictator-kleptocrat Trump. Trump has repeatedly accused domestic political opponents of being the enemy from within, and explicitly calling for military action against them.

MAGA elites are also busy as bees setting up the infrastructure need to rig the 2026 elections if needed. However, that may not be necessary because voters can simply vote to keep MAGA in power. That assumes the USSC will leave any meaningful power left in elections starting in 2026 (Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP). The case to kill off what is left of voting rights is now pending and it looks like voting rights are on the verge of vanishing.

Federal agencies have been fully neutered and MAGAfied. NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do so [1]. Anything coming from the MAGA government can not be trusted. Pam Bondi escalates potential criminal charges for Obama officials involved in 'Russia hoax' with bombshell grand jury order. 

Yeah, bombshell grand jury order. Whatever.

And, as posted about before, key federal agencies that protect consumers, workers, the environment has all been gutted, neutered, corrupted and MAGAfied.

 

Finally, the online news landscape has dramatically changed in the last ~3-4 months. News sites are forcing people to buy a subscription or give away privacy and allow ads. Trump's threats to news media have further toned down reporting that already was pretty weak nearly all of the time. The walls are closing in on the 1st Amendment and press freedom.

So, what is left to say? We're probably done for. Our goose is cooked. American democracy and rule of law are ending with a whimper. Of course, that is just an opinion. Tens of millions of Americans like and support what is happening, although they don't see it as authoritarianism and kleptocracy rising. They see it as socialism and leftist tyranny falling.

Or, is that assessment unreasonably bleak or irrational?

Footnote:

1. White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite -- MAGA thugs ordered NASA to draw up plans for terminating the two missions, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. They have been disseminating widely-used, detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health. 

1/6/21: Peaceful MAGA tourists on a day of love