Not So Much

We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I still believe in America and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.- Hillary Clinton

Actually, we don’t and shouldn’t.

Did W deserve a pass for starting an Illegal War of Aggression? How about Concentration Camps and Torture? Those are Nuremberg offenses folks, we hung people in Germany and Japan for for them. What about for instituting Mass Surveillance of United States citizens violating the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments?

Yet in 2006 Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Speaker of the House, with a Democratic Majority behind her said, “Impeachment is off the Table. In 2008 Barack Obama said, “We need to look forward, not backward.”

And United States forces are still in Afghanistan and Iraq and Guantanamo Bay Prison operates to this very day.

Barack Obama likes spying on U.S, citizens and has expanded the surveillance program, and stonewalled and tried to thwart every effort to regulate and expose it. We owe a great debt to Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. He also likes bombing countries with whom we are not at War and “Regime Change”. Did Richard Nixon deserve a pass for that in Cambodia and Laos? What about “Targeted Assassination”? Barack Obama feels free to kill United States citizens without a trial, or even a Warrant or Judicial Review based on… well, what exactly? Some kind of Minority Report profile? Does he deserve a pass for that? Perhaps because he’s a Democrat.

“Don’t worry, we’re Democrats. We only use our powers for good.” And when a Republican as ‘deplorable’ (and make no mistake, he is deplorable) as The Donald comes along and claims the very same powers himself you will… what? Claim the moral high ground?

Pfui. Perhaps if your insular incestuous World extends no farther than the Washington D.C. Beltway or Morningside Heights and the Upper East Side it makes a certain warped and perverted sense to ignore the fact that the people you meet at parties and bump into in the grocery store are mass murderers and thieves (but he was so polite, he picked up my grapes when they fell out of the cart) but then again they say Reinhard Heydrich was handsome and charming.

The only good thing about The Donald’s election is that the Villager Toadies and Sycophants are scared now. Scared that they’ve gone too far. And Trump will exploit that fear like the bully he is and they will fold like the cheap and empty suits they are. Look around you, it’s already happening. Pay attention to Hillary- “We must accept this result and then look to the future.”

He said he would “drain the swamp.” I don’t believe it for a minute. Look at his appointments carefully, he’s not interested in details- only results, because he’s lazy too and has a short attention span.

It will be bad. It will be hard. And the first thing you need to do is ignore Hillary and listen to Robert Reich–

Democrats once represented the working class. But over the last three decades the party has been taken over by Washington-based fundraisers, bundlers, analysts, and pollsters who have focused instead on raising big money from corporate and Wall Street executives, and getting votes from upper middle-class households in “swing” suburbs.

While Republicans played the race card to get the working class to abandon the Democratic Party, the Democrats simultaneously abandoned the working class – clearing the way for Trump.

Democrats have occupied the White House for sixteen of the last twenty-four years, and for four of those years had control of both houses of congress. But in that time they failed to reverse the decline in working-class wages and jobs.

and Michael Moore–

1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.