Why?

After 5 years of obvious corruption, authoritarian demagogue Donald Trump is finally being exposed by the Democratic Party and the tiniest number of Republicans.

In 2016, we watched and we voted. 2.9 million more of us voted for Donald Trump’s opponent. But because of the rules, Donald Trump became President of the United States.

Traditionally conservative bastion, constitution waving parts of our government like the military, FBI, DOJ, CIA, and CPB were, at best, paralyzed and at worst turned into brown shirts.

Starting in 2017, we attacked immigrants. The weaker they were, the more we hurt them.

We separated immigrant parents from their children and put their children in cages.

A year ago, a supreme court candidate, later confirmed, said in his opening statement of his Judiciary committee hearing:

My friends and I sometimes got together and had parties on weekends, the drinking age was 18 in Maryland for most of my time in high school and was for all of my time in high school. I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer, but I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out and I never sexually assaulted anyone.

Kavanaugh

This candidate came and did a job interview, said this, and the Republican Senate advised the President to hire him, literally, for life.

October 28, 2018, Chesley B. ‘Sully’ Sullenberge III, wrote a Washingtonpost opinion piece titled: “We saved 155 lives on the Hudson. Now let’s vote for leaders who’ll protect us all.

In 2018, we watched and we voted. The House flipped. Beto lost to Cruz by a smidgen.

Democratic politicians told us we voted for healthcare and pocketbook issues and not impeachment. Pundits explained how our voting was just part of the normal cycles. Yet, Democratic Senate candidates received 12 million more votes in Senate races but failed to win the majority of the Senate seats because of the rules.

SCOTUS

Sotomayor’s Opinion

This Vox article explains how the Supreme Court of the United States warps justice to protect President Donald Trump’s constitutionally questionable practices from immigration to defying Congress.

Our Justice system, the “rule of law”, only works because we all believe in it. SCOTUS and the GOP have killed Roberts’ balls and strikes 2005 myth.

Soon to be Chief Justice in 2005

Who is left who believes?

Jean-Paul Sartre on the Anti-Semite

The anti‐Semite has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frivolous discussions about the rights of the Jew appear to him. He has placed himself on other ground from the beginning. If out of courtesy he consents for a moment to defend his point of view, he lends himself but does not give himself. He tries simply to project his intuitive certainty onto the plane of discourse. I mentioned awhile back some remarks by anti‐Semites, all of them absurd: “I hate Jews because they make servants insubordinate, because a Jewish furrier robbed me, etc.” Never believe that anti‐ Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.