Of Course We Knew Most of This All Along

Last night’s House Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capital, and the ongoing insurrection did one thing. It took a lot of seeming disjointed puzzle pieces and began to present a clear picture. It also shows where many people who we were told are serious civil servants actually failed to protect or democracy when they could have stopped this slow rolling train long ago.

It started with FBI agents in New York who gave Rudy Giuliani information on their investigation into the Clinton Foundation. He then disingenuously spun that information into something to help the DJT campaign. Then it was James Comey who ignored DOJ rules and policy and went public to announce an investigation into Clinton 11 days before the 2016 election.

At the same time the Republican control House of Representatives was spending millions of tax payer funds on the spectacle of the Benghazi investigation, which turned up nothing, but helped DJT defeat HRC. By the way, they get to thank Bernie Sanders for his assistance in their efforts.

Then it was Robert Mueller, who we were told was a pretty straightforward by the books professional, who somehow could not bring himself to say our loud what was buried in his final report, that DJT is a criminal. So he handed over his report to William Barr, the guy who white washed the Iran-Contra investigation results, and allowed him to misrepresent the findings of two years of investigative work that saw several convictions for criminal activity for people less empowered than DJT.

The failure of moral and legal integrity by so many entrusted to protect our democracy is stunning. I save my biggest criticism for the American voter. Since 2000 you have displayed a growing ignorance and apathy that hinges on the single notion that on day you may enter into the upper echelon of the economically 1%. You have allowed the religious right, the so-called Moral Majority to tell you that this country was founded upon Christian principles, when the founders clearly rejected faith based governance.

Minority, Progressive, and women voters have the audacity to sit out elections and allow the partisan extremist to decide who becomes empowered to govern. So this is where we are today. We have time to make a true democracy but do we have the will to be responsible enough to ourselves, to engage to create a fair and just society?

See the post from my Tumblr blog below.