Why is the press not reminding us - daily - that the rule of law in our country is diminishing - gradually. How can we have a strong judicial system - with a crooked Attorney General?
Note the unfortunate similarity in the U.S. today of the paranoia, populism propaganda and absence of rule of law that led to Hitler's ascendancy in the 1930's? The German judiciary, slowly but surely, came under the control of the Nazis. Alas, too many citizens ignored this failed Austrian artist as a passing blabbermouth and did not believe what he promised.
And when our Orange King is not reappointed in 2020 will his followers take to the streets and create mayhem? BTW: I'm waiting to heart more about enacting protective measures for honest 2020 election results. ......?
Our endangered "free" press is often a frightened press. They bolster the Orange King with biased reporting - either by omission or commenting on every stupid Royal action. (or not calling a lie a lie!) I can only assume NPR must be terrified of losing government money; it's commonplace to note the presenters who seem terrified to question obvious misstatements by Orange King followers.
And when will the Democrats get their act together - with goals, policies and a candidate who can beat Trump? They need a George Clooney/Reagan type candidate......
Glancing through Harvard Medical School publications, (my husband got his MD degree there in 1952), I read about one of the world's richest man - (Sir) Len Blavatnik who contributed sooooo much money to Harvard Medical School - for all this wonderful research/equipment that's will save lives.....if you're well healed! He gives even more money (along with his Russian oligarch friends) to PACS for conservative causes including Kentucky's Mitch McConnell - who will make sure that the average person will not have access to medical care.
Every now and then, there's a sane voice that makes me feel a bit better - and this clip is lifted (my added italics, colors, underlines) from a May 22, 2019 op-ed in the Kansas City Star by former
Republican Congressman Tom Coleman:
“According to the redacted Mueller report, candidate
Donald Trump, along with members of his team, on multiple occasions welcomed
Russian interference on his behalf during the 2016 presidential campaign. For
example, the report details a meeting between the Trump campaign chairman and a
Russian intelligence asset where polling information and campaign strategy were
shared........ the net effect was that the
Trump campaign encouraged a foreign adversary to use and misrepresent stolen
information on social media platforms to defraud U.S. voters...... the president’s election victory brought forth nothing
less than an illegitimate presidency…
...Because DOJ regulations put a president above the law
while in office, I believe the only viable option available is for the House of
Representatives, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, to open its
own investigation, hold public hearings and then determine if they should
pursue removal of the president through impeachment.... providing Americans an opportunity to obtain a better understanding of
the consequences to our national security and the lingering threat to our
democracy.
If this process leads to impeaching Trump .... his
illegitimacy would survive through Vice President Mike Pence’s succession to
the presidency. Because the misdeeds were conducted to assure the entire
Trump-Pence ticket was elected, both former candidates — Pence as well as Trump
— have been disgraced and discredited. To hand the presidency to an
illegitimate vice president would be to approve and reward the wrongdoing while
the lingering stench of corruption would trail any Pence administration,
guaranteeing an untenable presidency. If Trump is impeached, then Pence should
not be allowed to become president. The vice president should resign or be
impeached as well if for no other reason that he has been the chief enabler for
this illegitimate president.”
...Failure to pursue impeachment is to condone wrongdoing. To condone wrongdoing
is to encourage more of it. To encourage wrongdoing is to give up on the rule
of law and our democracy. To give up on the rule of law and democracy invites autocracy
and eventually dictatorship. History has taught us this outcome.........it has occurred in other places including the Soviet Union and
Germany, as well as in Russia and Venezuela today.”
Barring Barr is a step in the right direction - unless we're looking for a crooked orange TV host Dictator to rule our kingdom!
