Running Out of Time

Our country could go from a democracy to a dictatorship if the Republicans take the House, Senate and Presidency starting on Tuesday and into the 2024 elections. If the Republicans win, we could conceivably lose all of our social services, Social Security, Medicare, right to unions, among others. Should the working people, retired and unions members just wait for this to happen or start planning on how to keep our democracy or return fully to it? We will need a strategy on how and what we need to do. But first, we must find the right-wing GOP’s Achilles Heel. The Classical Greek myth illustrates well the vulnerability of the supposedly invulnerable, the warrior Achilles. The myth states no blow could injure and no sword could penetrate Achilles’s skin. When still a baby , Achilles’ mother dipped him into the waters of the magical river, Styx, resulting in the protection of his body from all dangers. There was however, a problem. The mother held Achilles by his heel and the waters of the Styx did not cover this small area of his body. During the battle against Troy, one who knew of this weakness, an enemy soldier, shot an arrow into Achilles’ unprotected heel. Today, the phrase Achilles’ heel still refers to the weakest part of the body, in this case, the body politic of the GOP. We can hit the GOP’s Achilles’ heel with a plan or institution at which, if attacked, there is no protection. We now must find what the Achilles’ heel is for the long hull so we can identify and attack their weaknesses. There are many weaknesses, such as subordinates fearful of displeasing their superiors, the ideology may erode and myths and symbols of the system becomes unstable, new dictatorships will take time to become well established. The power hierarchy is always unstable, when many decisions are made by so few people, there will be mistakes of judgments, policy, and action are likely to occur. So, we must find and shoot an arrow into the GOP’s heel before they get established in a dictatorship. Now is the time when they are fighting each other for power, the soulless Trumpers against the GOP establishment—too afraid to stand up for their own party. We need a strategy to try to keep our democracy. It will and is now a running battle and we have about two years to keep it or lose it. If we lose to the GOP, dictatorship will follow and the strategy will switch to how to get rid of the dictatorship, which will be much harder. So, we must find the heel and shoot it before it’s too late. The Democrats could take a page from the GOP’s playbook. The GOP members are experts at accusing Democrats of the behavior that they, themselves, actually do. The Democrats need to take the gloves off and blast the GOP for all their hypocrisies over and over again in hopes it wakes people up. Also, address the way some outlets are allowed to outright lie about the Democrats, and why we’re at it, the education systems needs to be beefed up so the likes of Trump and his lies aren’t so readily believed and his imperfections forgiven or seen as lies. We’re screwed if we don’t make the necessary changes now, we're running out of time.