BREAKING: HELP DEFEAT THE GOP!

 

     Sedition. Rioting. Treason. Disagreement in politics is not only healthy, but the very premise of politics. While George Washington warned against forming political parties, they are a natural and necessary part of a democracy. America has survived and thrived for 250 years and will for 250 more. 

     However, what happened at the Capitol exposed the GOP for who they were. They have lost the popular vote in all but one presidential election in the past 30 years, and the "Grand Old Party," once of American heroes like Lincoln and Grant, has become something of a cult, a group unable to hang on to old ideas that even conservatives no longer find favorable, unable to adapt to the youth and diversity of modern America.

     In the seiges that took five lives thusfar, they attacked democracy in pursuit of their own perverted self-righteousness. They have broken any notions of justice, law, and order, bringing the country the closest it has been to civil war in 150 years. The election of 2020, however, revealed that local, progressive activism works in swing states like Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

     My motivation in launching this project was to be an observer using commentary to oust a president I held contempt or personally. However, as a patriotic American with common sense, it is my duty to evolve, like my life and the lives of most Americans have, and become another set of boots on the ground in the fight for democracy and human rights. We must reelect Tony Evers in Wisconsin in 2022, maintain the Democratic hold of Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024, and work to carry this momentum across the country.

     What happened at the Capitol was not an isolated incident, but a result of a desperate party spending four years lying and tying themselves into a knot, and now this not must be loosened and tossed aside before it strangles the vitality from democracy. Those responsible must be held accountable and prevented from reaking havoc upon the greatest nation on the planet.

     It is time to restore integrity, justice, and purpose to politics.

     Sincerely,

     Isaiah M. Laitinen

     January 8th, 2021