Voters Beware of a Fist in the Air!

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Josh Hawley may not have had a Mariachi band show up on his front yard yet, like the one that performed uninvited on Ted Cruz's lawn earlier this week, but he knows that it's only a matter of time until he wakes up to the lively sounds of horns and guitars.  Hawley hates those brown-skinned people who cross our southern border in search of sub-minimum wage jobs every bit as much as Ted Cruz does - even more!  Yesterday he used his time in questioning Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland to score points with the nativist base of the Republican Party.  

Hawley hates immigrants - and he is damned proud of it!

Josh also hates "antifa scum," a term he used to describe the peaceful protestors who walked up and down the sidewalk in front of his embarrassingly expensive Virginia home.   (Protestors are far less likely to bother Josh and his family when they are back home in Missouri - because the Hawley's have no home in Missouri.)   And Missouri's junior senator does not lose any sleep worrying about the needs of Missourians anyway.  Right now his energies are focused on the extremely important needs of people in places like Iowa - and New Hampshire.  

If you are "anti" the anti-fascists, what does that make you?

Josh Hawley is dreaming big.  The job of being a US senator was only a stepping stone to get him onto the national stage, and now that he has made his fist-in-the-air entry into national politics, he is running full-on for president.  He is no longer just Missouri's bane and embarrassment, Josh has expanded his playing field and he is now an embarrassment to the entire country and a threat to democracy and our way of life.

The American presidency has had its share of scoundrels and people who were controlled by scoundrels, but the institution and democracy itself were never threatened into near extinction until Trump came along.  Now some may see working to subvert democracy as the new normal, and they may no longer feel the need to be subjected to the vagaries of voters.  Hawley put his fist in the air in acknowledgment of the group who were on their way to storm the US Capitol, and later that same day he voted to ignore the will of American voters.   

Josh Hawley does not seem like he sort of person who would willingly relinquish power once he has it.

Voters beware of a fist in the air!