The Abusive Party

 Donald Trump and the GOP continue to contend that President Biden and the Democratic party have "weaponized" the government using its power politically to persecute its adversaries.  Therefore in their view all of the indictments against Trump are political fodder, not discovery and indictment of criminal activity.  It may be easy to believe that, if one does not read or pay attention to the news.  I am guessing the majority of the citizenry of America are too busy to read the news, thus our current political climate equates to a grudge match between professional wrestlers.  Not important are real world issues, the United States Constitution, and the law.  This bending or obscuring of the truth has been a consistent thread during the Trump Presidency.  On further examination "weaponizing" of the government is a metaphor for the current practices of corporate America.  A "stolen election" or "fake news" are terms invented by the Trump campaign and the GOP describing exactly what they have done in the past.  I'm not sure anyone would of thought of these terms except for Donald Trump.  They were so far in left field before he ran for office, and none of these conspiracy theories really existed.  America was tooling along normally, until Hillary Clinton lost the Presidency after winning two million more popular votes.  Today in the Washington Post the fake elector scheme is seeing the light of day.  Many of these electors are realizing they were coerced into criminal activity posing as real electors and swinging the vote of their state from Joe Biden to Donald Trump.  Biden all ready had been declared the winner, and yet these electors appeared out of nowhere and said otherwise.  The Electoral College in America is vulnerable to these types of manipulation, and my guess money was involved at some point.  They are called bribes.  Most of Washington, DC is being bribed by the corporate lobby, and they like their money.  Even SCOTUS has succumbed to this ill.  Campaign dark money via Super Political Action Committees now control politics.  It is who has the most money.  It is no different than the rest of America.  If you want your kid to be a pop star the price tag is six million.  Trump was effective rallying his goons, because promptly they showed up in Washington on January 6th to contest the election results.  At his behest, and because he was the standing President of the United States, these right wing zealots blindly did what he asked.  I can think of no better example of the dangers of a cult.  It is fortunate they did not drink the Cool Aid after their skirmish.  While the Clinton Organization humorously is attributed for untimely deaths, usually in prison, the GOP assault on America is a more subtle tactic.  Is Weaponization of a thing is in the Republican vocabulary, and if the government truly is not weaponized, than what or who is?  Easily it could be surmised that corporate America, those who support Trump and are members in good standing of the Republican National Party, are busy making life hell in one way or another for their enemies.  If the Democrats are the enemy, and they are those who do not live in ivory towers, luxury palaces, or gated suburbs, then they are the common people who live in mainstream America.  As we are finding out about North Carolina, General Assemblies no longer necessarily are concerned about their constituencies.  They forsake the common people years ago as did Congress.  Their goal is to make money, and with most of America poor, the common man no longer is of much interest to them.  In many cases we have become their enemy.  We are a hindrance objecting to their disassembly of democracy, freedom, and rule by the people.  The influx of Fascism during the Trump Presidency is stark and brutal.  These behaviors do not always emerge at a rally, protest, or political event.  It is best to reason that corporate emissions also are an abstract but tangible deterrent in the political arena.  Don't like your enemy?  Make them sick.  Harm their health.  Pollute their breathable air and drinkable water.  Make everyday life so abhorrent that we need drugs to survive.  Compromise our educational opportunities by no supporting public education.  Destroy economic opportunity with cumbersome red tape.  This is kind of what life feels like today.  The citizens are getting beat up regularly and denied a fair shake at life.  Is this reality, and is this the way it always has been in America?  As long as I can remember, I always have known you would not "make it" unless "they" said it was okay.  We live in a little black box, and your only way up and out is through their system.  After Covid and with the rise of America's new oligarchs, our opportunities are much less.  If the war in Ukraine is in need of financing, then Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be asking Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet for the money.  America doesn't have it.  It is ludicrous to think otherwise.  We can't pay our own bills much less fund a war against Russia for a surrogate nation.  Yes, we let Afghanistan suck on our teat for twenty years, and it got us nothing.  Democracy all ready has fallen in America, and it is obvious.  Everyday life is not picnic.  It is a war zone laden with drugs and violence.  We are not being stalked by the police, because in many cases they are being paid off.  I am just now realizing this.  It would be another covert GOP attack on their adversaries.  If we are fighting with each other, how can we pay attention to them?