Eight years ago the Republicans took control of Congress. Then came Citizens United, giving unlimited spending power to the wealthiest in our elections. Then came Donald Trump.
Fueling the fire all the while, there was Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and his cartoonish merry band of second-rate revisionists - Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Hannity, and now the new generation of blasphemists like (Looney) Tomi Lehren and Aaron Schlossberg setting sick right wing fires all over our Constitution.
We, the American people and our democracy have been played.
In 2016, this conspiracy to change our America culminated in the election of Donald J. Trump as the President of the United States. Shortly after this debacle, we learned just how bad was the attack on our way of life. We became aware of Russian hacking of US emails, use of private Facebook accounts, manipulation of state election processes, and other well managed attempts to steal our election from the people of the United States and hand it to Russian interests.
We were shocked! We were angered! We pledged to do something about this underhanded thievery. We knew we had to act quickly to find out just how Russia did it and how we could prevent it from ever happening again - certainly before this year’s next US election cycle.
But our own Republican controlled government would not act. And our new President Donald Trump would not act. Nothing at all was being done.
Then, thanks mostly to the American free press and many brave and intelligent reporters, awareness arose indicating that there was an awful lot of suspicious interaction between the 2016 Republican campaign and various Russian players. Slowly, evidence came forward indicating that maybe - just maybe - there could have been some obscure connection between the spooky campaign actions of the Republican Party and the spookier actions of Mother Russia.
Could it be true? Could it be possible that our own people worked in concert with a foreign enemy to take control of America? Was this a coupe? The Left didn’t want to believe it and the Right didn’t want to talk about it. And all the while NOTHING was done.
Ah, but the possibility of relief came when finally, and not until May 2017, six full months after the 2016 election, the US Department of Justice was forced by popular demand to appoint a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 United States election. A well respected Republican, Robert Mueller was chosen to head the investigation team and charged to explore Russian interference in the election, as well as any newly suspected links or coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.
Since that time over one year ago, NO known program has been initiated by the White House or Congress to curtail and prevent further Russian manipulation of our election system, yet conversely, both the White House and the Republican Congress have actively endeavored to impede the special counsel investigation by slandering Mueller and the FBI, thus calling doubt upon the validity of the entire investigation itself.
Even as the ongoing special counsel investigation has produced several indictments, and after several slime-ball players who have been caught “red handed” (no pun) have pleaded guilty and/or have turned to actually be cooperating with the investigation, Trump and his Republican minions like Nunes, Gowdy, Meadows and his “Freedom” Caucus, and of course the formerly respected Rudi Giuliani, have all been trying their very best to confuse and dismiss the special counsel investigation as merely a witch hunt.
What is true anymore?
The ongoing special counsel’s investigation and the free press are bringing new revelations daily. As the evidence mounts and mounts, this is what currently appears to be true:
1) Russia deviously influenced our 2016 US election to the benefit of Donald Trump.
2) Trump has done NOTHING to investigate or neutralize the Russian influence machine in time for the next US election coming this year.
3) The Special Counsel investigation and the free press are the ONLY sources of light and truth on just what happened in 2016.
Thanks solely to the Mueller investigation and the free press, we MAY get to the bottom of the 2016 election debacle. We MAY have time before it is simply too late to stop the erosion of our American institutions, our system of government, our law enforcement, our free press, and our free American elections.
Trump is now publicly threatening to end the rule of democratic law in America, something that all the Russias in the world could never do alone. Republican Senator Jeff Flake warned at Harvard University yesterday that without the rule of law there simply is no America.
Thanks to this president and the Republican Party our democracy is in serious trouble. Since it is very obvious that no one else is going to do ANYTHING about the Trump and Republican Party assaults at home and Russian attacks from outside, it becomes clear that the Mueller independent counsel’s investigation is the only possible remedy before this year’s fast approaching US elections.
How dare Trump and his dark powers trample on our hard-won and cherished way of life? We must prevent the forces of evil from stealing our American tradition of freedom and justice for all.
SOMEBODY HAS GOT TO DO IT.
LET MUELLER FINISH HIS JOB!