Americans just caught a glimpse of their future -- and it is terrifying - by Thom Hartmann

[B.See]

Americans just caught a glimpse of  their future — and it is terrifying (Thom Hartmann) - Alternet.org

On Tuesday, here in Chicago, America caught a glimpse of its possible future, and it was terrifying. Federal agents, dressed like soldiers and armed with the weapons of war, rammed a civilian vehicle on 105th Street, using a maneuver outlawed by Chicago police, and then fired tear gas into a crowd of bystanders and local officers.

The air filled with smoke and screams as parents fled with babies in their arms, teenagers were slammed to the pavement, and a young girl was struck in the head by a gas canister. One boy was detained for hours, denied his rights, his family left in the dark.

This was not a foreign regime or some distant “law-and-order” fantasy. It was an American city, in broad daylight, and it looked more like a militarized crackdown in a third-world dictatorship than traditional American law enforcement.

The question we have to ask is simple and chilling: Is this America that we are becoming, one where democracy dies behind clouds of tear gas?

[Buddyzbuddy]

1. The Republican led Congress has a sworn duty and a moral obligation to stop this President.

If even half of the Republicans decided to put Country before ambition and fear, they might find a friend in the Democrats. Right now, if honest elections are held in '26 Republicans would lose the House. You would then have angry vengeful Democrats running everything tied to the House. I would imagine Republicans would like some voice, some choice in important matters that are sure to follow. Unless they're resigned to live in obscurity for the remainder of their political lives.
We can't do it without you and you can't remain in power. Help us to help you to save the Republic, the Constitution our Country as we know it.

[B.See]

3. They have shown themselves to be

incapable of either duty or moral obligation..

Rather, they've chosen to cowardly abdicate, in complete fealty to a malevolent dictator, their own power and responsibility - to governance, to the Constitution, to rule of law, to the people, and to democracy itself.

They are spinelessly devoid of integrity or even a conscience. The lowest of the low.

[Buddyzbuddy]

5. All true. So what's the solution?

Because the way I see it the fastest most effective way to change course flows through the damn Republicans. Some of that dam is beginning to leak.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. "Is this America that we are becoming, one where democracy dies behind clouds of tear gas?" YES

[70sEraVet]

4. A powerful article!

[spanone]

6. We are THERE.