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It has become something of an open secret that the only real goal of the GOP is to help the rich get access to our tax money. But of course this should be a losing message to run on, politically (although who knows anymore, right) so of course we should expect the GOP to talk about anything else. The problem the GOP has had to figure out for the last four decades is what to talk about. Obviously the can't promise to fix anything tangible because that would cost tax money, and their whole thing is to give that money to rich people without anyone noticing.

So we have the bill in Florida restricting the mentioning of the existence of gay couples to grade schoolers. Now, quick aside on the bill, it accomplishes two things: 1) it makes teaching just a little bit more miserable: in the GOP's quest to hand out tax money to rich people one of those groups of rich people is private school owners. They've been trying to privatize the school system for decades but have ran up against a wall with overwhelming community support for local public schools. The school board invasions over masks and CRT and now this bill are ways to turn the local communities against local schools. And 2) it seems built from the ground up not to be useful but to motivate the right with satisfied anger over wielding the power of cancel culture they have been told they are somehow the victim of, because a few scammers they subscribed to were redirected to spam on social media.

So, we have a GOP who needs to get elected so rich people can have access to our tax money, but no one want to vote for them for that (at least not yet) and some of the opposing political party are finally starting to figure out it might be a winning message to just accurately describe what the GOP is up to. What does the GOP do if it becomes mainstream to know they are serving the rich only? (Continued...)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/next-us-civil-war-already-here-we-refuse-to-see-it The next US civil war is already here – we just refuse to see it

Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming.

The United States today is, once again, headed for civil war, and, once again, it cannot bear to face it. The political problems are both structural and immediate, the crisis both longstanding and accelerating. The American political system has become so overwhelmed by anger that even the most basic tasks of government are increasingly impossible.

The legal system grows less legitimate by the day. Trust in government at all levels is in freefall, or, like Congress, with approval ratings hovering around 20%, cannot fall any lower. Right now, elected sheriffs openly promote resistance to federal authority. Right now, militias train and arm themselves in preparation for the fall of the Republic. Right now, doctrines of a radical, unachievable, messianic freedom spread across the internet, on talk radio, on cable television, in the malls.

The consequences of the breakdown of the American system is only now beginning to be felt. January 6 wasn’t a wake-up call; it was a rallying cry. The Capitol police have seen threats against members of Congress increase by 107%. Fred Upton, Republican representative from Michigan, recently shared a message he had received: “I hope you die. I hope everybody in your family dies.” And it’s not just politicians but anyone involved in the running of the electoral system. Death threats have become a standard aspect of the work life of election supervisors and school board members. A third of poll workers, in the aftermath of 2020, said they felt unsafe.