The democratic club I belong to has had a voter registration booth at the local farmer's market for years. We see that as a public service and the duty of an organization committed to our democratic form of government. We do not try to hide the fact that we are partisan. Our sign clearly states that we are a Democratic club. We also display the signs of local Democratic candidates, but, for the most part, we try to be inviting to people of all views. We also help people register regardless of their party preference - not just in compliance with the law, but also in the spirit of the law. In compliance of the law is easy, in the spirit of the law can be a challenge.
As I am sure most Californians know, the Republicans are now abusing California's recall provision by using it to unseat Governor Newsom for committing the unpardonable sin of being a legitimately elected Democratic Governor in a blue state. Last week we displayed a sign at our booth asking people to defeat the “Republican Recall!” This sign soon became a powerful magnet drawing to us a plethora of outraged Magalamaniacs who were intent on inflicting their insanity on us! I made the mistake of asking one of the Magalamaniacs why he wanted to recall the Governor.
The magalamaniac said he blamed Governor Newsom for the forest fires because Newsom did not heed President Trump's advise to clean and rake the [33 million acres] of California forest land. I almost asked him how he would like to pay the taxes needed to finance such an enormous task, but I knew he was not bright enough to grasp how expensive and time consuming that task would be. I usually avoid arguing with such dullards. I probably should have done so in this instance, but I could not resist the temptation to rub his nose in the hypocrisy by saying: “You know many of the large fires during the last ten years have been in the National Forest, and that's on Trump!”
The delusional twit responded by saying that the state was responsible for the National Forest! I was tempted to ask him if the many green trucks sporting the logo of the National Forest Service were just a figment of the imagination of we poor earthlings, but I knew it would not have any impact on him. Let's face it, there is no trebuchet of logic nor cannon of facts powerful enough to breech the vast, dense wall of willful ignorance and self deception guarding the alternate universe of the right wing. Unfortunately this dullard is not the exception; he is now the Republican norm. No election is final if the Republicans lose it, and they define liberal as being anyone with a triple digit IQ!
