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"Though he has broken every law and has destroyed so many institutions over the last 3 years he is still getting away with murder. He says and does whatever he wants and no one calls him to accountability.
"His enablers allow him to obscure and obstruct. He is filling his pockets with money. He cannot be trusted to protect the nation and his fawning over murderous dictators and tyrants is condoned.
"What will it take?"
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For some presently unknown reason, Trump looses support of his base which causes him to loose control of the Republican Party.
I taught social studies.
One common thread in the fall of an empire is corruption. An empire is born with some kind of ideals. Those ideals may be diametrically opposed to Christianity. Nevertheless, there is a clear set of what is OK to do and what is not OK to do.
When an empire rises there is a clear set of principles that are expected from the young adults and continuing throughout life.
One of the expectations when an empire is beginning to rise is that the health of the young empire is paramount.
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There is no greater honor than to die in battle for the nation that is becoming an empire.
Trump is being given credit for the disaster that has overtaken the United States. I don't agree.
The shape our nation is in falls at the feet of the Republican Party.
The present Republican Party began under Vice President Dick Chenny. The soul of the nation was sold for oil in Irag.
In 2010 the present leadership was in control of the Republican Party. This leadership was and still is aware that they will not be able to win elections in the future due to the changing make up of the population of the US. They managed to win in 2010 and took steps to remain in power,
A severe form of gerrymandering was put in place that would greatly increase the ability of the Republicans to loose elections, but still have their candidates be the winners.
The white precent of the population will drop below 50 % within 25 years. The percent of people who follow the white conservative viewpoint has already fallen below 50 %.
What has happened beginning in the years leading up to 2010 was a shift in what is most important among Republicans and Independents.
Two events from the 20th century show the stark difference between what was once considered the correct path to follow and what is the correct path to follow today.
In the early 1970s we had a president who needed to be impeached, convicted and removed from office, Richard Nixon. The Republican Party put the interests of the nation above the interests of the party. Richard Nixon resigned being president when a group of Republican senators went to see Nixon and let Nixon know that the votes to impeach and convict Nixon were there.
The opposition party, the Democrats did not have to be the ones to tell Nixon that he could resign or he could remain in office and be remooved from office.
Nixon's crimes in office were minor compared to Trump's.
Move forward a few years and Reagen was president. Reagen is often said to be the father of the modern Republican Party. Reagan and the Democrat Tip O'Neal saw how the nation should be governed from different viewpoints. The Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Often, these two Irishmen would sit down and make compromises.
Obama is given credit for health care for all as a right. Only partly is this correct. It could be said that Ronald Reagan is the father of health care for all.
Tip O'Neal and Ronald Reagan worked out a compromise. Reagan accepted Neal's insistence to put guaranteed emergency health care in the emergecy rooms of hospitals across the US.
In both of the instances the belief of how this nation should be governed is very little different then than what it is now.
The main difference is the moral compass of the Republican Party.
Today's Republican Party doesn't give a damn about the ideals of the American Republic. Three groups are working together in the Republican Party. One group are the oligarchs who have as their goal to control the finances of the entire world. These oligarchs are American citizens.
Sadly, they don't give a rat's ass about the people the Americans. They have no more loyalty to the people called Americans than to the people in Vietnam. One reason for this is that these oligarchs have ZERO loyalty to anyone other than themselves.
Oligarchs do not have enough votes to elect their pawns as representatives, senators, and president.
There is another group that does not believe in democratic ideals and that group are what I was taught are the white racists who are heirs to the KKK. They are related to the Nazis. All Americans shouold be opposed to then. Some in this group would carry out mass murders like the Nazis did in the 30s and 40s.
The third group are also white. They are the white evangelical fundamentalist Christians. I learned from my father now gone that the word fundamentalist added to any worthy group destroys their ideals.
Some white people are loyal to both the Nazi viewpoint as well as the fundamentalist viewpoint.
I doubt there are many people that are a part of all three. This is a marrriage of three groups that follow the "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours."
Somehow Trump is able to relate to all three. As long as he is able to do what the leaders of these three groups want him to do, they don't give a rat's ass how he does it; just as long as he can and will do it.
To anwer your question as long as Trump can do what they want, there is no low out there. There is no sin to horrible that Trump can do that will result in Trump losing their support including continuous murder and contenuous theft.
As long as Trump is able to deliver what one, two, or all three groups want, it doesn't matter the age, the willingness, nor how much the person feels sexually assalted of the person that Trump wants to bed down with. These three groups who make up today's Republican Party don't care.
It makes no difference how low Trump goes, these groups will still support him.
In your mind, put the grossest and most sinful act that one man can do. Have Trump do it. Let whatever it is become public. Today's Republican Party only has one question. How will this affect Trump's ability to do what we want him to do? If the answer is that it will not have an affect, today's Republican Party's response is to, "Carry on! We don't' care what he has done or will do."
This is what happens when you sell your soul to the devil. In this case, Trump sold the entire nation's soul to the devil without getting our approval first.
It is going to take a lot of soul searching and asking forgiveness from those who have been harmed if we have chance to recover as a nation.
Yes. We can recover. What will it take? We desperately need to find that candidate that has the best chance to win and all of us unite to support this person as the Democratic nominee and all get out to vote.
The last thing we shoud be doing is destroying whomsever we nominte as the Democratic nominee for president during the primaries. We need strong candidates for all positions available. The number one thing we MUST do is vote in November 2020!