Having no king ruling a country seems like a no brainer to me, but watching the slow, constant, slide into autocracy that is happening down in the United States, makes me realize that a lot of US citizens don’t really care. There are some that do, and they will be out on the streets today showing their support for democracy and the principles of the US Constitution.
It has been fascinating to watch Trump’s monarchial tendencies. Just the news clips of his meetings in the White House, show more and more gold decorations showing up in the background making the White House look more like a palace. The military parade on his birthday, and the way he is enriching himself and the members of his family while he holds the Office of President is unprecedented. Then there is his Cabinet meetings where his sycophant cabinet heads go around the table and praise him. It all looks like something you would see in a third world dictator-led country.
Just look at the criminals that Trump has pardoned. Not innocent, reformed, human beings, but crooks and creeps who support him. Just yesterday Trump pardoned George Santos, a man who lied his way into Congress, who had been convicted of fraud and identify theft, but also a man that praises Trump. Trump’s sycophants in the Justice Department have moved of Jeffery Epstein’s partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted sex offender and child sex trafficker from a regular prison cell into a cushier prison. One wonders how long it will be until Trump gives her a pardon.
Of course it isn’t entirely the fault of Donald Trump, it is the fault of the Republican members of Congress, who without ethics or backbone, have given up their Constitutional responsibilities to put a check on Executive Power, letting Trump have his way. And of course there are the conservative members of the Supreme Court, all choices of the billionaire funded Federalist Society, who loftily speak about the Constitution, then totally ignore what it says about the checks and balances and the limits of the Executive Branch that is set up in the US Constitution.
I often think things have already gone beyond correction in the US. I honestly hope that the citizens of the US soon wake up and look objectively at what Trump and his Administration are doing, then use the elective powers they have been given in the Constitution to save Democracy while they still can.
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