Going

The Speaker of the House has resigned under pressure from the wingers of the Republican Party. There is not a single rational person running for the Republican presidential nomination so, on the surface, it appears that one of the two ruling parties in the US has gone completely off the rails. It is what one would expect as a country slides into oblivion. It is what the American people keep voting to support. For, no matter how one looks at the numbers, the Republican party controls most of the government on both state and national levels.

There is a small chance that this will work out well. There is just enough time between now and the next election for the country to feel the impact of Republican madness. Should it come to pass that they are crushed by the voters, there is some small hope that the country can turn away from disaster. Small. There is still the fairness doctrine, the SCOTUS, the tax laws, Citizens United, and out of control military spending. Americans despise educated people and experts telling them anything they don't want to hear. We are a “faith based” society that hates truth, completely impoverished when it comes to wisdom, compassion, understanding, empathy, justice, and peace. We worship power, wealth, violence, and war.

It would be better for the world and the future if such a country were to fade from history. Indeed, history suggests there is no other alternative. The long arc of human evolution bends toward liberty and discovery. As a species we have slowly shed the Kings and Popes, Gods and Prophets. The oppressed eventually revolt, the Kings get led to the gallows, the churches are closed; society convulses and something slightly less oppressive, slightly more just, grows in its place. Americans may be about to feel the full brunt of living under religious tyranny, working only for the benefit of the powerful few, shedding personal liberty so the elite can take their shot at ruling the world. It will follow the path that all such societies follow.