The world of politics is in an awful state right now. Not that it’s ever been, in my lifetime, in a state that was anything other than a complete upending of a bag of shit, complete with open eyes and mouths. I would only contend that today’s marketplace of overturned manure bags is more egregious if only because it has dropped all pretense of representation, and is simply a small sign that reads “I’m against what that dude says.”
So, the US Government packed its bags and went home after no resolution was reached on funding for a border wall. Democrats, on this instance, claimed a wall was immoral. Yet there was little reporting of such an objection from Democrats in 2013 for a border fence.
An incoming New York Attorney General has indicated their intention of doing broad and comprehensive investigation into Trump and his family.
We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well,” James, a Democrat, told NBC News in her first extensive interview since she was elected last month.
But has any crime been committed to warrant such extensive scrutiny?
There is a saying, in where you “show me the man, and I show you the crime”, which in itself an awful perversion of justice. Regardless of your feelings toward Trump, an atmosphere in where people can be specifically targeted to find a crime they committed, as opposed to finding a crime then looking for who committed it, should make you fearful.
Because it sends a message that if a certain sentiment is against your favour, that any and all scrutiny is warranted, welcomed and cheered. All because you happen to go against the mainstream grain. If you don’t have a problem with this kind of thinking, just remember who wields the power when the pendulum eventually swings the other way.
Neither Republicans or Democrats will rule forever, but it should trouble anyone that such a concerted effort to find a crime to attach to target du-jour could be shrugged away.
No one ever seems to think the mob will some day turn their ire against them. For when that day comes, they might wish for a standard that isn’t “I want the opposite of what they say.”
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