Speaker thoughts

And who better to express them than the opposition?

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As my readers likely know, I’ve been on the mailing list for the looney far-left Indivisible movement practically since day one - I always like to know what the enemy is up to.

Thus, I bring to you their initial thoughts on new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson:

Republicans just elected the most extreme, far-right speaker in modern history. 

There’s a lot we could say about Mike Johnson -- he played a key role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election (crafting the bunk legal theory behind decertification), desperately wants to end Social Security as we know it, and supports a total, no exception ban on abortion nationwide. 

Stop right there. Looks like three-for-three to me. I’m shocked that they didn’t say he was going to bring us a theocracy because he’s a devout Christian. Okay, continue…

But the more important thing is what his election says about the Republican Party and its continued slide toward extremism, embrace of election denialism, and disinterest in serving the public in any way.  

This should be a clarifying moment for voters everywhere: The GOP doesn’t care about our democracy. And we shouldn’t let them run any part of it. 

Didn’t Barry Goldwater say that extemism in the defense of liberty is no vice? And I don’t care about our “democracy” either, because we are a Constitutional republic. Only idiots believe we’re a democracy, because, even though we use an electoral process to choose our representatives, things aren’t decided by a vast vote in the public forum.