America has been lucky, in the presidents in my lifetime. Lyndon Johnson was president when I was born, then Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHW Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump.
None were not as for sale, venial flim flam men, soft shoe shufflers as the current regime, wannabe gangsters, running illegal protection rackets. I wish the legislature, courts, press and people would hold him more accountable. Or even a little accountable.
He's running a protection racket, from himself. Threat, shake the money tree, see who pays for protection. In a way it's amazing the idealistic rhetoric.
I've never really believed in exceptionalism, that was too boastful and not humble. You get hubris. Hubris is over arching pride that leads to your downfall.
Humility, being right sized, isn't built into the American ethos, but as we mature and find our place in the world, it would behove us to find some. Most people didn't buy into America's hype, they witness too much to the contrary.
American politics is what we create, how we react, and what we discover our virtues and values to be. I pretty much ignored politics, always leaning left and voting Democrat. I voted for a Republican sheriff in Madison because I went to school with his son, that's the only Republican I voted for, in my memory. My memory isn't that great, life can be long and I've always struggled to cope with the flurry of information out there.
Democrats aren't perfect, and some people see them be venial for sale politicians like the Republicans and see no difference, but I see a huge difference. That try not to be so corrupt, and resign quicker. To deny the difference is a radical political stance, two neighbors have said that to me. These are the kind of people who feel like Trump telling the truth about his grifting is somehow noble. They feel Trump is being persecuted for his politics, instead of him just straight up being a criminal and being held accountable.
I'm OK with more people choosing not to vote, that enlarges my vote, but voter suppression is evil, and I really hope the courts prevent Trump from doing what he hopes to do by making voting harder.
It's hard to know which is the distraction grift in this house of cards, the rope a dope, the gish gallop.
To me Jasmine Crockett, Cory Booker and AOC are stepping up the most to fight this nonsense.
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