Washington warmongers prosecute Trump

Washington is a city where internal memos about Labor Day are classified – because everything is classified. Your government has classified more than a billion federal documents, most of them boring and pointless and a danger to no one and lock them away in secret so you can’r see them, because you. may be an American citizen – but not really – and therefore, you don’t have the necessary clearances to know what’s going on.

And by the way, none of this is done in order to make America safer, any more than COVID restrictions were designed to keep you healthy. No!

It’s a caste system. That’s the point. And you’re the Untouchable in this hierarchy.

Mike Pompeo knows that. Everybody who works in Washington knows that.

How many secret documents do you think Dick Cheney took home with him when he was running the Iraq War? How many did his wife read? She never had a clearance.

We’ll never know the answer, because there is no chance Dick Cheney will ever be investigated or his staffers will be told wear wires in his presence. He’ll never be indicted for this. Of course not!

Dick Cheney is a Neocon. Donald Trump is not. Dick Cheney supports war with Russia. Trump does not. That’s the difference. The rest is just a distraction.

The prosecution of Donald Trump is transparently political. He’s literally Joe Biden’s main political opponent. He’s polling at over 60% of Republican voters right now.

So, Joe Biden is doing what no other President has ever dared to do: He’s using law enforcement to lock up his chief rival. That’s happening right now. Anyone who denies it’s happening is lying to you.

But actually, it’s worse than that. Trump’s prosecution isn’t just political, it’s ideological.

Nobody with Trump’s views is allowed to have power in this country: “Criticize our wars and you’re disqualified. If you keep it up, we’ll send you to prison. That’s the message Washington is sending – not just the Democratic Party but both parties are sending. 

Like so many Republicans, for example, the supposedly conservative governor of Texas, Greg Abbott spent yesterday totally ignoring the destruction of the American justice system.

Instead, he signed a highly-important bill called the Crown Act, which according to the celebratory tweet Abbott sent commemorating it, will quote: “Prohibiting discrimination based on textures and hairstyles historically associated with race.”

In other words, in Texas, corn rows are now protected by law. Having unapproved views about Ukraine – is not.

That’s fine with most elected Republicans. They find Trump tiresome and embarrassing. Their donors hate him. They will not be sad if he dies in jail.

But what about voters? What are they learning from this spectacle? Well, mostly, they’re learning that they have no power, at all, because nobody cares about them. But they already knew that.

Unlike so many of our elected leaders, they have been to America recently. They know what it looks like.

Have you seen it? If you’ve got a few days this summer, find out. Take a road trip and see for yourself. Drive 500 miles in any direction, then come home.

How are things looking? Well, they should look great. The Federal Government spent $6.5 trillion last year. That’s more than any government has ever spent – ever.

So, at the very least, you’d expect pristine public roads. Oh, no! That’s not what you see when you drive around in this country.

There are potholes and Jersey barriers everywhere. It looks like Tegucigalpa before the Chinese decided to rebuild the infrastructure of Honduras. We don’t have China buying our roads, so they’re falling apart.

You’d think the people you would pass would look happy and prosperous – again, this is a very rich country. But a lot of them don’t. Quite a few appear to be strung-out on drugs. You see them shuffling by shuttered storefronts in small towns. And you wonder, as you see all of this, “Where did all the money go?” It’s certainly not here.

Well, it’s in Washington. It’s in Fairfax and Loudon counties and in leafy, perfectly-manicured Northwest DC. And, of course, a huge chunk of it went to Ukraine, to Zelenskyy and his friends, not because you voted for that – you didn’t vote to give it to them, you never would – but because Joe Biden and his many allies, from Chuck Schumer to Mitch McConnell to Paul Ryan and every single news anchor on all of television – all of them believe that Ukraine; its borders, its future, its infrastructure are all more important than the town that you live in. They sincerely think that and it’s obvious. Everyone in power thinks that. Except for Donald Trump.

Whatever else you say about him, Trump is the one guy with an actual shot at becoming president who dissents from Washington’s longstanding pointless war agenda. And for that – that one fact – they’re trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him.

And that should upset you more than anything that’s happened in American politics in your lifetime. 

Even if you don’t plan to vote for Donald Trump, even if you would die before voting for Donald Trump – which is your right and a lot of good people feel that way – even still.

The destruction of our democracy, which is the right of voters to support any candidate they want – even candidates who don’t want war with Russia – the destruction of that should keep you up at night. 

Yes, Donald Trump is a flawed man but his sins are minor compared to those of his persecutors. 

In this life, we don’t get to choose our martyrs, we can only choose our principles.

And America’s are at stake.