How Democracy Ends

What happens when one person is above the law? And, what if he or she is the president of the United States? If this were to happen then it is not just one person above the law, but this includes all the people helping this person be above the law knowing there is a pardon waiting for them when the rug is pulled out from under them. How can this happen? First a party, like the Republicans, needs to be corrupt and greedy to the point it will warp the very foundation of our country. Then you must obtain control of the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court by denying a sitting president the right to appoint a candidate to fill a vacant seat; then you get the new president to appoint judges willing to rule the way you want and not by legal precedence. Then you pull out all of the stops to include election corruption to get your candidate elected to the presidency, just like George W. Bush, who was followed in office by Barrack Obama, who chose not to prosecute the corruption that went on during the Bush term and the message was sent that anything goes. Then came again Donald Trump to unleash holy hell on this country. Once you have the presidency, you declare that the president cannot be prosecuted or investigated while president and you have installed an attorney general to use his position to protect a corrupt president. So, there is nothing anyone can do because the president will just tell them to feck off, he’s above the law. He has been given all the power and the keys to the government’s piggy bank and the power to make himself and his friends very, very rich. To see what this look like, look no further than Russia and Vlad Putin, who surrounded himself with billionaires, some he helped make, who can buy elected people. Here in the U.S., we have billionaires, who support ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council), which buys up state governors, who then pass laws which benefit the corporations by making them richer. So, what’s the cost of all this? It will be the end of our democracy and turn it into an anarchy. The reason is the people will have no recourse for the laws are now set up to work against the people. They are now controlled by the 1 percent and unions and workers all types are shut out of the process, leaving the people no choice but to go to the streets. The 1 percent does not care if we go to the streets they can live on their yachts or in their silos converted into bunkers. Or fly anywhere they want, are so they think, unrest is spreading around the world. This is what happens when a country goes lawless, and now consider all those in possession of automatic weapons. We are on the verge of this happening in our country. We have unprecedented greedy and immoral people running our country. People who say they don’t care how history views them because they will be dead. With that sentiment, what’s to stop these from completely destroying our democracy for their own gain. We have to vote in 2020, we have to be vigilant to stop election interference, by using paper ballots. If we don’t, it will be the end for their will be no stopping the climate crisis, unions will be decimated, minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare will be history. At this time, it is them, the 1 percent, versus us, the 99 percent. Pick a side.