Thoughts on Democracy

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

I am tired of the contemptuous evil and the moral degeneracy that is Donald John Trump, and for the past week I have tried to avoid, at least in this blog, the second Senate trial of the man who for four years sought to divide us as a people and to destroy us as a nation.

It now looks as though the Senate will fall at least ten votes short of the sixty-seven needed to convict Donald Trump of the crime of inciting an insurrection against the very government whose Constitution he had sworn to uphold.   Some of the Republicans who will stand by the man who put their lives at risk will do so because they believe it is unconstitutional to impeach a President who has already left office (or so they say), and others believe that Trump was within his rights to say anything he pleased because of 1st Amendment protections, death and destruction be damned. 

But now there are stories circulating about a different reason that some senators may vote to acquit:  fear of retaliation by Trump supporters.   Not voter retaliation, but actual physical retaliation by low-intellect bullies with guns against sitting United States Senators and their families.

If we have reached that point we might as well close down the United States of America and reopen under another name.  Is "Nicaragua" still in use?

Donald Trump lost an election, and he does not like to lose.  His answer to that loss was to deny it.  He claimed to have been cheated, never mind that almost all of the states where he felt he was cheated were controlled by members of his own political party.  He tried to bully election officials into changing results - to no avail, and he tried to have courts throw out election results - again, to no avail.  He roared about cheating, but never produced any credible evidence that votes had been rigged.  He just did not like the results.  Donald Trump was at war with democracy, a war that he ultimately lost.

Perhaps we owe Donald Trump a debt of gratitude for showing us how a despot operates, and that even something as rugged and enduring as our Constitution is subject to insidious attack from within.  

Godspeed to the prosecutors around the nation in places like New York and Georgia who are using their offices to clean up part of the mess that the national government has seen fit ignore - and godspeed to the individuals who have suffered personal injury from Donald Trump as they slowly make their way through a court system that often seems designed to protect the privileged.

The United States Senate may dodge its responsibilities to the Constitution and the American people - again - but the American people will ultimately win out.   Democracy is our heritage and our future.  It must be preserved!