Friday, March 25, 2022

With friends like these, democracy needs no enemies.

Perhaps the most frightening phrase texted by the fanatic Trump supporting wife of Justice Clarence, Ginni Thomas, to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was “the most important thing you can realize right now is that there are no rules in war.” She was urging Meadows to overturn the election.  That is how she and others saw the importance of overturning the 2020 election, a war. To her, it appears, the rule of law and the Constitution be hanged because Trump would be saving democracy.  It is not only that her husband was sworn to uphold those rules laid out in the Constitution, it was also a view held by many others: to save democracy you had, in effect, to destroy democracy by violating its intent, rules, and laws..  It was not only that she believed the election was stolen that fueled her passions, it was her trust in a variety of conspiracy theories, the what ifs and what abouts. that were just unproved theories... Even a year and a half since then, there has been nothing  that provided either proof or evidence that sufficed to change the result of the election. Initially the claims reviewed by  60 judges were thrown out of court because of no evidence, The president's own Attorney General attested he could find no evidence the election was stolen. Nonetheless,  it remains a mantra spoken by so many in the GOP that the belief is the truth, This blind belief is being used by many to justify ignoring and defying  the rules of how democracy is conducted  so they could install their preferred candidate as president, the one who lost the election.  They wanted the freedom for themselves to rule as they pleased, but not as  the majority wished. With friends like these, democracy needs no enemies. 

This next section is  reposted 3/26/2022 as "Watching to birth and rebirth of term "free world" and its unchanged meaning.

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