Our Constitutional Republic faces a clear and present danger more deadly than that of the Civil War. The danger is the Republican Party, a "political party" that has sold out to white supremacy, autocracy, misogyny, and hatred of everything our Nation stands for. Republicans dismiss any sense of a common American narrative. The "Republican Party" is an outlier in our history – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of social and economic policies that have sustained us for a century; unwilling to compromise; dismissive of evidence, fact, and science; dismissive of the legitimacy of any viewpoint except their own. America needs to face the simple, frightening fact that the Republican Party is a clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.

Meanwhile, here in Virginia’s Northern Neck, we are home to some very dumb people.

For example:

The “Northern Neck Patriots” whose main work is to support the January 6 thugs currently incarcerated in the Northen Neck Regional Jail awaiting trial and sentencing.

The “King George Militia” who held one “muster” then faded.

Then, there’s the “Northern Neck Sentinel,” our local source of bullshit — though it does provide a source of paper to line the bottom of birdcages.

The “King George Tea Party” whose long-time president is one of the Jan 6 thugs who is awaiting sentencing.

Whatever you do, do not disturb them . . . they think they are right and they get angry when you show them just how dumb and useless they are.