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It's literally as simple as this. When the most fundamental and cherished laws and principles of our republic are allowed to be violated at all levels of government (and, clearly, beyond, in the corporatocracy that actually runs the country) by those whose job it is to enforce them--and it's clearly not just far-right Repubs that I'm talking about here, or Repubs entirely--this is what you get, a horrific abuse of power in which egregiously unlawful force has the full effective weight of actual law, because there's no one left who's actually enforcing the latter.
Thank you, Diane.
Thank you, Chuck.
Thank you, Pat.
Thank you John.
Thank you, Harry.
Thank you, Nancy.
Sternly-worded letters to follow, maybe a mock hearing or two?
Of course, at least we have the establishment media making sure that this gets full and fair coverage and the huge public outrage that is sure to ensue.
Yeah, right. The eedjut soccer mommification and NASCAR dadification of the country is nearly complete, where so long as YOU are doing relative ok or unaffected by some issue or scandal, it might as well not exist. Republicans might be being rejected, but not RepublicanISM.
Establishment Dems are as responsible for this as are Repubs, and perhaps even more so, because they're supposed to be smarter and know better, and have stood up to it. As if.
Until they prove otherwise, the establishment Dems who are poised to take over the federal government are only marginally better than the establishment Repubs whom they're replacing.
Oh, wait, stoopid me. First we show unity and shut up with our dissent, to win an election, and then everything will be made ok once we're back in power, just like magic and cute little fairies and ponies. Sorry, I should have known better. Never mind. Reality doesn't matter.
Better we make nice than be accused of being far-left radical fringe hippy loonies.
