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Lunatics are Running the House
I originally wrote this as a letter to President Biden and my senators.
White supremacist insurrectionists who attempted to overthrow the federal government are now on committees running the federal government. White supremacist insurrectionists who compromised national security are on a committee running national security. How can you be okay with this?!? Approximately half the federal government — and many state governments — consist of fascists. This is not a true democracy.
At any other job, bullies like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar would be fired. Enabling fascists is not okay. Humoring them, walking around on eggshells, acting as though this nightmare is normal: it sounds to me like Democrats are in an abusive, codependent relationship with Republifascists.
There need to be consequences for these insurrectionists — including the Orange Menace of Putrescence who instigated the insurrection. According to the 14th Amendment, it’s unconstitutional for him — someone who attempted to overthrow the government — to run for president!
Where I was published in 2022:
- My poem “Bonsai Tree” in the webzine Grim & Gilded, September 2022 issue.