Is this how America ends, not with a band but with a whimper… or both?

 Two Black Democrats expelled by Tennessee GOP over gun violence protests, while a white lawmaker survives

Republicans voted on whether to remove the Democratic legislators for participating in an unauthorized gun safety protest on the House floor last week.

Republican legislators in Tennessee voted Thursday to expel two Black Democrats from the state House over their protests on the chamber floor against gun violence last week, while a vote to expel a third, white Democratic representative fell short.

Donald Trump is now facing multiple felony charges one of which is for using political contributions to pay hush money to a porn star. Instead of being shamed and shunned by his party, the Republicans are rallying around him and he is raising millions of dollars to run for president again. In his gloating speech he said “they couldn’t beat us at the ballot box so they are coming up with false charges because they hate me. Lie upon lie upon lie and he is cheered on by adoring fans who love him more the more he lies, thwarts the law and tears down the institutional walls of legitimate government and democracy to be replaced by abject loyalty to him, Trump.

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone? The words and wisdom of Joni Mitchell talking about trees are now the words that describe our democracy. They are paving over the truth with self serving lies and calling the desperate protest of grieving parents over their slain children, an insurrection? It feels as though our country has gone mad. That everything we thought we knew about truth, justice and American way is being trampled under Trump, Trumpsters and Trumpism. White supremacy is a cancer that is eating away at our civil society. White supremacy that manifests in an aggressive defense. White supremacy that claims that white people are in danger of being disarmed by the coloreds and so it’s something we must do to preserve our heritage, our values and our ways of life. 

White supremacy and the paranoia it breeds that makes us fear and hate others will ultimately cause us to turn on and destroy ourselves.