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You Had Your Fun

With the verdict in on Trump, it seems that the 50/50 split in our country is laid even barer. To see New Yorkers celebrating the win goes beyond bizarre. Here is a city that is being overrun with violent crime, where the criminals are let go with no bail, and where migrants are running wild on the taxpayer's dime. But these people are happy that Trump supposedly got caught lying about a certain crime. Let's look again: A former president got convicted of a felony which was not the crime itself, but lying about it. Remember Martha Stewart's 5-year run in the slammer? Now she's bigger than ever. The judge's instructions were similar to a beginner's poker lesson. You can win on one-of-a-kind, a pair, three-of-a-kind, straight, flush, full-house, etc. Take your pick, jurors, you are bound to win.

But what is the prize? The satisfaction? Or should we say, the short-term gratification of the "gotcha." This mentality is similar to this example: You have mice. Your landlord tells you he is against killing any animal. For your protection, health, and safety, you trap a mouse and it dies. You put the mouse in a plastic bag, and shove it to the bottom of your trash. Your landlord does an inspection, and digs through your trash and finds the dead mouse. Your landlord says, "gotcha," and evicts you. Who wins? The mouse?

What this kind of short-sighted brinksmanship brings is a weaker America. For the most obvious reason, it brings the precedent that a former president can be dragged through the mud, and possibly imprisoned, for the crime of lying about an alleged crime. The current President's supporters must know that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Biden is cheering something that inevitably will come back to bite him in the ass, if he lives that long. At that point, instead of trying a former president, we will try him posthumously. How will his supporters like that? They will not. They will scream and cry and claim all sorts of things about the unfairness of the law. When all along, all we had to do as a nation is move on, and respect the office of president, and its immunity.

Yes, no one is above the law. If we let someone get away with a crime through immunity, think of all the wicked things that they could do. But we don't run the law in this country on hypotheticals. Robert Deniro may think we do. He may think that saying things like Trump will never leave office if re-elected will gain traction; but the same could be said about his man. Biden seems equally to be on track to dictatorship at this point. His priorities seem anathemic to anything that I know as an American. Since his election, he has lost a lot of followers, which seems based simply on common sense.

Last I checked, I do not owe anything to people from foreign countries. I believe in the Constitution, and I believe that illegal immigrants do not have the right of its protection. Nor would I expect France to give me constitutional protection if I illegally entered their country. It just does not make sense, at least to my half of the United States. In regard to this guilty verdict against Trump, it does not make sense for anyone in the long run. I believe that one day historians will look back and mark this day as the beginning of the end for American democracy, and those who thought they were preserving it. You had your fun. Now we will have ours.