Democracy Goes Bananas: America in the 21st Century
The American Flag needs to add a bright, yellow banana in that blue patch above the stripes. In the eyes of the world, we are a banana republic.
Incited to riot by the President, and the failure in response towards a mob of domestic terrorists, the world can think nothing less, and our enemies can think of nothing more.
America has been speeding in that direction ever since 1980. And when they threw the Constitution into the fire early in the Trump Administration, his Republican enablers gladly dug the pit.
With the winds of misinformation blowing hard and enabling Republicans, the blaze is now out of control.
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, America and the world witnessed that fire going out of control fueled by a would-be authoritarian, a rabble of brown shirts, and a eunuch-turned Republican Party.
Televised for all to see, the POTUS called on his followers to overthrow the government and essentially burn the votes cast by Americans in November.
As of this writing, Donald J. Trump, the inciter of a coup to destroy the American Government, still sits in the White House and still retains the title of POTUS
At the very least, Trump and Ted Cruz, and the other Republican enablers committed sedition.
Remember, in the old America, you know, the nation of laws; Trump would’ve been arrested under the Sedition Act of 1798.
That was a law calling for the imprisonment of ANYONE determined to be a threat by the United States Government. That law went into the fire.
The fact that Trump and his merry gang of domestic terrorists and sympathetic Republicans are not in handcuffs at this very moment is reason enough to add a banana to the American Flag.
But then again, how do you enforce laws turned to ash? Symbolically, those participating in the Trump coup are winners unless someone rescued that law from the fire. And if you believe I’m wrong, remember the Alamo.
