Update 8/11/34 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/11/protective-order-hearing-trump-jan-6-evidence/ Judge clips Trumps' speech wings in order to protect the jury pool
Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country. This is a variation of one of the sentences I practiced in learning to type. Now it is a line that suddenly has urgency. The country in which I have lived for over 85 years is the one I want to aid and which is in peril. The judicial system will play out in the next 18 months, and Donald Trump's fate will be played out in the court of public opinion in November 2024 whether trials take place before the election. Your voice needs to be raised. Do not rely on the judicial system to do the job for you. Do not just get angry and just vote. We now need to challenge the attack on our democratic system and rebut it. Use facts and evidence. Do it in your daily intercourse with co-workers, and others who are listening. Do it in social media..Read the indictment. Become knowledgeable of its contents. Just do not hurl invective or accuse those with whom you disagree as being fools or worse, but deal with the issues being raised and make your case to the jury of public opinion. Silence is a vote for the end of democracy.
I think there is more to the story than just a deranged individual, a wannabe dictator, a narcissist, a person with no principles except get the best deal for himself he can transact. I think there is more to the story. Trump may be a trumpet, but he also represents a large body of self-serving and angry right who would like a dictator to get into office again, give them the business and social favors, and access they crave, trample civil rights, and complete his takeover of the executive and judicial branch. It is, whatever you call it, part of a worldwide movement and follows the playbook of others like him. Using the word "fascists" describes it in the correct historical sense of the word and they use the same playbook fascists succeded in the 1930s. How did that all turn out? That is a rhetorical question. The fawning over Orban of Hungary and the setting up of another Jew as the overarching villain, Soros, is part of the same awful playbook. I am not Jewish, but I recognize the history and how effective the Nazis were to play the hand of hyping old hatreds to deflect and rationalize their takeover of power with a constituency that was willing and even fearful.. Where this fascist movement in the US will go wrong is our diversity. Hungary is 99% ethnic pure. However, if the other 60% of US voters are asleep at the wheel, and then wake up after the takeover, the violence and conflict will be very different than Hungary. What we must do is keep the other 60% en garde and actively engaged.. The worst part about being so old is that I see history repeating itself and so many forget the lessons learned.
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There is also a role churches can play, but the Evangelical movement has fed and provided supporters for some of the extremist elements of the MAGA movement. There is the beginning of some important Evangelical thought leaders realizing that there is a crisis when parishioners attack a pastor for spreading subversive lib propaganda when was only quoting Christ's Sermon on the Mount. https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706
(SEEING the multitudes, Jesus went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: and he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.)
To listen to it read, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk_a_OFXLgY
The text was also downloaded to Kindle, via Amazon.
It is personal to me having had close encounters with forms of government in which those in power ignore laws and violate human rights without impunity. Here is my case: In short, democracy is worth keeping as is the rule of law. The alternative is chaos and turmoil and ultimately your voice can be silenced by a strong man we call either an autocrat, king, strong man or dictator. Once in power and controlling all of the organs of power by appointment and fist, it is hard to reverse that. It takes a violent or velvet revolution, which is the alternative to the American constitutional system. This is the ultimate element of our democracy, a peaceful transition to regime change and it is the first time since 1860 it is now in peril. After all of the legal remedies to challenge election results have been decided by an independent judicial system, in a famous case even to the Supreme Court, the one adjudicated or lost, has graciously bowed to the system even if they could not believe or agree with the outcome.. Until now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCQ6DUxJwYo
The peaceful transition to power is also the key to economic and social stability, making us "the shining light on the hill" and a thriving capitalistic system where politicians play by the rules and respect the legal system. Peace and prosperity are words joined together for a reason.Stability, not chaos, is why we invest and the rest of the world invests in America. We have been a dependable, safe harbor until now. The peaceful transition of power is the first time this element of democracy itself has never been challenged since 1860 until now. For the first time, after the judicial system composed of appointees of both parties, 63 judges concluded there was no evidence of enough fraud to change the 2020 outcome after the loyal staff and the Department of Justice headed by a loyal appointee, Donald Trump attempted actions to change the results to stay in power. These are accusations, per the indictment and evidence supporting those accusations are included in it. The accusation in the indictment accuses Trump of conspiring to set up a fake slate of uncertified and loyalists electors in seven swing states to convince his vice president to rule against certification. There is even evidence that he threatened violence against his "too honest" vice president if he did not violate the provisions of the Constitution. Trump was not accused of causing the January 6 riot or even lying in his public pronouncement, though he tried to use the riot after it ended to use fear of it to get a vote to refuse to certify the election results. Throughout the entire pre-election, post-election, transition, and post-holding office, Trump maintained the election was a fraud, he won. It is not this that the indictment accused him as doing. It is that he took action after the system presented its judgment he did not like and began the scheme to change the results in a way that did not represent the actual vote.
Freedom to us means we have the ability to speak it out with it our opinions and argumentation, lies and insults in the political realm, and to have our desires about our governance and to persuade others. It is reflected in a vote that is counted. It does not mean we have the freedom to attack the system itself, the jury system, the safeguards, we set up over 250 years. It does not mean we have the freedom, or scheme to overturn the system itself, or to not abide by the rules we have set forth called laws we, through our representatives shaped. Freedom does not mean defying the judicial system that makes a decision of whether those laws are violated or conformed. The challenge for those of us who have treasured our system as coming closest to those ideals is that the very system is being attacked as a way to support a political goal and counter an outcome they do not like, that is divorced from evidence, facts, or even a cogent rebuttal. Instead, when those systems have failed to give power to their loyalty to a strong man, they attack the system instead. Without this, we will have a government that suppresses and obstructs the ability to be heard or a government unleashed to only provide justice and equal services to those who agree with their leader and who conform to the standards set by the preferences of an autocrat, whether they agree or not with them.
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