Sometimes You Just Have to Say It

In the past few days, Facebook has shown me a couple of statements that resonate with the political situation we are in. First, this:



It reminded me of things said by people who live in completely Republican-dominated states. 

For instance, a few days ago, Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social posted this:

It’s wild to talk to folks about Missouri only to hear someone blame “the Democrats.” What Democrats? We’ve had a Republican legislative supermajority for over two decades and haven’t had a statewide elected Dem since 2018. Everything you see in this state is due to Republican authoritarianism.

That's in keeping with posts Piper has made at other times: whatever ills exist in Missouri, Republicans clearly have been in complete power for long enough that they have had every chance to at least begin to fix them. Instead, just about every measure of human well-being has gotten worse: schools, roads, health care, air. (They've had a trifecta since 2017, and controlled both houses of the Legislature continuously since 2003. When there was a Democratic governor between 2009–2016, all he could do was veto things, not pass anything positive.)

Lyz Lenz has said the same about life in Iowa since Republicans have dominated over the past decade. Everything has gotten worse for everyone since a Republicans became governor in 2011 and particularly since their trifecta began in 2017. 

And now we, of course, have the same thing on a national level. Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social wrote this today:

Our country is tolerating Donald Trump presiding over severe national decline because the majority of white voters (who vote Republican) thought living under a Black president was worse than this. Not a popular or media-savvy assessment... it's also not wrong either.

Here's the second thing from Facebook:



We have to get these people out of office as soon as possible.