Last night I watched the final episode of the RNC shyt show. Here’s the thing, this is Trumps biggest con job. In order to be conned a sucker/mark has to be looking for a win without investing anything. Trump knows this game. During his first go round he told people that because he was rich he didn’t need their money, he was going to finance his own campaign. Except he didn’t. He loaned his campaign money and then used campaign contributions to pay himself back.
This mantra of Law and Order is another con job. What the law is usually is determined by who is in the majority. Contrary to popular myth the law isn’t about what’s right or wrong, it’s about who has the power and what they want. When Trump and Pence talk about restoring law and order they’re really sending out a dog whistle. They’re telling their people that they’re going to get what they want. He’s telling the alt-right that he’s going to turn them lose to do a little etnic cleansing. He’s telling the people who feel that they’ll be replaced because of a demographic shift that he’s not going to let that shift happen. Trumps message to the people who sat on the Whie House lawn last night was that I’m going to keep all those other people in their place.
Law and order isn’t about right and wrong. It’s about those with the power defining what the law is. Trump doesn’t care about things like the Hatch act because he has the power. He has his Attorney General who will not pursue an investigation of Trump staffers who violated the Hatch Act. For them Law and Order is a function of who has the power.
Law and Order will permit Kyle Rittenhouse to present a defense of self defense for murder charges he may face. It was self defense because he was there to “protect and serve”. It doesn’t matter that he had no reason to be there or that he was not legally allowed to possess the AR15. What matters is that those with power make the determination about how he will be treated.
I watched those people sitting on the White House lawn and the vast majority of them were there because they wanted access to power. They wanted to be on the right side of powers interpretation of law and order.
People should be concerned by far too many are not. Right now they don’t feel threatened by this capricious interpretation of law and order. They don’t see themselves as the target. They actually see themselves as the beneficiary. What they don’t understand is that in Trump they are dealing with an entirely transactional man. When they are no longer of use they too can be relegated to the trash heap. If you watched last night without be frightened about americas tomorrow you aren’t paying attention.
THINK!!
EYES WIDE OPEN!!!