Today is Memorial Day. You know, the day when the country celebrates the people its President and Commander in Chief calls “suckers and losers.” But the House just passed a dangerous bill, Will we continue to have a country worth fighting for?

The President’s bill, the one he really, really wants passed, has gone to the Senate and we are seeing America’s future play out in real time. This bill is, indeed big but it is far from beautiful. It includes several highly dangerous provisions that have enormous implications for our future.

While the media focus on the bill’s tax implications there are other sneaky things that can come back to bite us big time. If you have been waiting for the midterms to set a course correction, here are things you need to know.

Sneaky Things in the Bill

He can delay or even cancel elections legally. The midterm elections may never be held. Or, if they are, they will be late. Or meaningless.

He can ignore Supreme Court rulings for a year or more. That will de-fang the court’s power to limit his actions. Chief Justice John Roberts and his gang of radical justices will have colluded in the demise of their own authority and given the president free rein to flout the law.

It’s amazing what a few fishing trips and an RV can buy.

He can fire government workers for political disloyalty. You bend the knee or you lose your job. If you can even get it in the first place. One search through a candidate’s social media can make the difference between a steady income and the church’s food pantry.

He can track and criminalize protests. Those immigrant raids by phony ICE officers will turn into real raids by FBI agents, police, and even the military. Proud Boys with masks and badges they bought on Amazon will break up any group brave enough to protest with maximum violence and very real damage.

Folks Just Fine With the Bill

We might assume that most Americans wouldn’t stand for this. But I know that ain’t so.

First of all, a lot of ‘Muricans like what’s going on just fine. They don’t think they will lose their rights. Nope, that will happen only to the people they don’t like. Sticking it to the Libs is more important to them than whether they can ever vote again. After all, who needs to vote when the right people are already running the country? The President has already told them they won’t have to bother voting ever again.

Christian Nationalists Cheer This Bill

The Christian Nationalists will cheer this big step toward declaring America a Christian Nation. Forget what James Madison and the other Founding Fathers wrote in the Constitution. These self-righteous folks drool at the chance to impose their religion on everyone and thus take their rightful positions at the top of the country.

The truly ignorant—and there are millions—won’t care or even notice what’s happening. As long as they can get tickets to the right concert, their team is winning, their favorite TV show is starting a new season, or TikTok influencers still tell them what to buy, they will be fine. Until, of course, they’re not.

Giving Our Rights Away

I wonder whether John Roberts and his fellow radicals understand that, when they dust clears, they will be powerless, having given it away to the Federalist Society. Do the Republican Senators grasp that passing this bill will render them irrelevant except for small things? Do moderate Republicans comprehend that the Project 2025 crew will be running the country to their advantage but not to anyone else’s?

If the Senate passes this bill, we can kiss our rights goodbye, as listed in the Bill of Rights, away.

Buyer’s Remorse is Spreading

Right now, buyer’s remorse is spreading around the country. Solid Trump supporters are slowly realizing they are not exempt from the impact of his actions. Recently I have seen stories on:

• Farmers whose immigrant workers no longer show up because they have been deported or they fear an ICE raid. The farmers now face bankruptcy.
• Residents of red states that were hit hard by tornadoes who are looking for help to a FEMA that no longer exists. They supported this President but he doesn’t care about them.
• Loyal Republians for whom the Quatari 747 or the cryptocurrency exchanges are a step too far. But he’s made billions, so why should he care?

There will be more. Many more. But if this bill passes, it will be too late for these folks and for all of us.

No Way Out

I researched getting a Canadian passport because my whole family’s ancestry goes back to Quebec and Montreal. But they came to America several generations ago to work in the mills. It’s been too long and they had no special status in Canada. Thus, I am not eligible.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany, the smart Germans and Poles and Austrians came to America. Now the Nazis are in America and there is nowhere to go.