Absolutely Disgusted

 I am so filled with disgust at the sight of the press- both the mainstream press and liberal sites like Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars- being totally manipulated by Donald Trump for two weeks now, into spending at least half of all their time obsessing over Trump's abominable behavior, and allowing him once again to be the center of national attention, all for a relatively petty criminal act he committed.  When is he going to be held responsible for the sedition and treason that are his real crimes, let alone for the lifetime of financial criminality he has engaged in?  If Merrick Garland, et. al. don't wake up and deal with the reality of Trump's massive criminality, this whole thing, which would be a gigantic humiliation for any normal person, will end up being a public victory for this sociopath.

And by the way, who wrote the legal rule that Democrats can only accuse Republicans of wrongdoing after having several of those Republicans admit in public that it happened, while Republicans are free, without evidence of any kind, to accuse Democrats of the most immense corruption, of being Communists or even Satanists, or of raping or even eating babies?  We all know what crimes Trump, McConnell and all the rest of the Republicans have been up to their whole lives.  

Let me make a point here:  "innocent until proven guilty," the phrase we hear over and over again, is not true.  The real phrase is "presumed innocent in the eyes of the law until proven guilty."  If you are guilty, you are guilty, regardless of whether you manage to escape legal consequences.  We all know OJ is guilty of murdering his wife, and we all know that Trump is guilty of treasonous collaboration with a foreign dictator, massive financial crimes, obstruction of justice by misusing his powers as President, and a hundred other crimes.  We are free to speak the truth regardless of what the courts are able to find, in the face of the worst, most corrupt obstruction our legal system has ever seen.  If Republicans are free to go on screaming about Benghazi, and her e-mails, and Hunter's laptop for year after year, without the slightest evidence that their charges are true, we must speak the simple truth about them:

For at least half a century, it has been the clear program of the Republican party to bring an end to representative government in this country and replace it with an oligarchic dictatorship in which the whole country is run for the benefits of about a thousand families.  In pursuit of this goal, Republicans have openly tipped the economic playing field so much in favor of the hyper-rich that these thousand families have all the money it takes to utterly swamp our campaign system, and buy the government.  Anyone who knows history is aware that this economic course is going to result in a colossal depression (as it did in 1929, and almost did again in 2008) and possibly an incomprehensibly violent world war.  But they don't care; all they care about, like a pack of two year olds, is what they want right now.  If we don't stop them, they will destroy us all.