General Discussion

And I do really mean respectfully. Seriously.

The GOP has total control. Yes, I realize that there have been points in the past where the GOP controlled every branch of government. The difference then was there were still enough Republicans who, as repugnant as their political positions and policies may have been, still insisted on following basic constitutional principles to prevent a dictatorship from taking hold.

I'm thinking here of people like Liz Cheney and Mike Pence. Hell, even Dubya didn't try to claim some sort of fraud had occurred when the Republicans got hammered in the 2006 midterms. I believe he said words to the effect of "that was a real shellacking," and then went back to all of his own awful policies and positions. Now, every last Republican shows total fealty to Trump. J.D. Vance especially- and he has said he wouldn't have certified the 2016 election if he had been President. Believe him.

In my opinion, the sooner we realize the US is already a dictatorship in the true sense of the world- not hyperbole, really a dictatorship- then the sooner we can figure out the best way to deal with or overthrow said dictatorship. I'm sixty years old so I doubt it will happen in my lifetime, but maybe.