The Choice

I had kicking around in my head a notion to write something about the choice before Americans in the present election; that the question was nothing more or less than whether or not the United States would be a democracy for all people or a White man's republic.

Then Ruth Bader Ginsberg died.

And before she was buried, Republicans moved to nominate a new, hacktacular Trump appointee.

Now they're floating a plan to use gerrymandered state legislatures to appoint Republican electors to the Electoral College regardless of the outcome of the actual election part of the election, and use their stacked, stolen, court majority to approve this naked theft.  

And now the question is no longer whether or not America will be a democracy for all people or merely a White man's republic.

It is whether America will remain a republic at all.