State of the Disunion - Guns n’ Russians and the Neverending American Horror Story

<p>Hail Hydra!  Immortal Hydra!  Cut off a limb and two more shall take its place!</p> <p>No, we're not doing another superhero cinema and television show, but making an apt metaphor about the neverending horror story that is MAGA and the pernicious spread of Trumpism in the corridors of American power.   </p> <p>Despite effectively cutting the hydra off at the head in the 2020 election, the movement continues unabated, aided, abetted and energized if not driven by a stonewalling collective of 51 malfeasants who, like a bunch of cut rate dimestore Gandalfs, declare "you shall not pass!" to any and every bill the American people demand, or that may actually alleviate all the financial crises and domestic terror incidents that beset us on an increasingly regular basis.  </p> <p>Why?  In the name of power.  At any and all costs, including the future of this country.</p> <p>Defaming the Constitution and the principles our Founding Fathers and a few foresight blessed men (like Teddy Roosevelt, with his muckraking and trustbusting Square Deal, FDR with his social program creating New Deal and Johnson's Great Society, which gave us such things as social security, medicare and medicaid, fair housing, integration and more), these atavistic corporate owned plutocrats stoop to one new low after the next, distracting, dividing and using every dirty trick in the book just this side of legality (and often not) to rig the game in their favor.  A minority seeking total control - including the right to your own body and destiny, romantic or otherwise - over the will of the majority.  </p> <p>And we remain apathetic, fighting amongst ourselves over petty "wedge issues", while the American conservative of old seemingly vanishes into history, and a literal cult of death and "burn it all down" nihilism driven by false narratives, false "theocratic" support, propaganda and social division-fomenting "talking points" takes its place.  </p> <p>If you're not part of the cult, whatever direction your politics lean, you have to know this is