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America has been rotten to the core since its foundation. Last night I watched "Client 9" on Tubi, Alex Gibney's documentary about the lynching of Eliot Spitzer, using consensual sex with a well-paid escort as the gallows to hang him for a decade of tackling corruption on Wall Street and in Albany. Most any doc or movie on the 2008 financial crisis is testament to how modern society is built upon crime, with the DOJ providing the veneer of justice while letting most white collar crime slide, all while packing for-profit prison systems with street-level criminals, themselves downriver victims of the wealth transfer to the 1%. I used to live in Chicago, where greasing an Alderman's hands helped my condo association get a working sewer system (the city placed a cap on our lines which they removed after payment), the Mafia runs the city's liquor distribution and vending machine network (mainly a money laundering operation), and even your local property taxes can be lowered with a bribe. Netflix's "Buy Now" documentary reminds us that while we're all distracted with identity politics, mass consumption, pollution, litter, and global warming are uniting to kill us all -- with Trump's food/water/air quality deregulation, drill baby drill, and vaccine negation only escalating the end of mankind from a few centuries to a decade or two... tops.

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I agree with you 100% Ben! I am coming to realize, however that our argument is not only in reminding Americans about integrity, morality, ethics, democracy, and the rule of law. Here is what concerns me the most: "Trump's loyal supporters DO NOT believe Trump committed any crimes." They rest these beliefs on the references of tubular echo chambers funded by billionaires that tell them they are correct.

I know that many are shocked at how obvious it should be that a President must have some form of reliable character. Trump was actually convicted for many different cases civil, sexual assault, fraud, hush money! However, our battle rests with people like Victor Davis Hanson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHU6x-9rhzQ who cooly, calmly, intellectually, and eloquently dismiss all Trump's crimes. This man wrote a book titled "The Case for Trump." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2019-04-16/case-trump

It is the uneducated wearing MAGA hats, taping napkins to their ears, dressing in garbage bags who follow up behind these educated scholars at Madison Square Garden Nazi rallies and say, "Yeah, watch this video of Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Victor Davis Hanson to see why our guy Trump is a hero! See, that smart conservative guy in Prager U, or Hoover Institution, or Heritage Foundation, see he's a (historian, lawyer, scholar, billionaire etc) "He says Trump is not guilty, and that the Deep state is committing lawfare!"

In effect, it is not that all Americans have lost belief in the rule of law. They have lost stable grounding in interpreting Truth, facts, and reality of who is breaking the law, who is their ally, and who is their enemy. They think the billionaire Trump is "different" due to racism, misogyny, and sexism . This is why in Tulsi Gabbard's book For Love of Country and others, they continually attack "the woke cabal establishment," with no facts or evidence, but do so in the name of saving democracy! Both sides are saying they want the same values: saving Democracy, fairness, justice, law, equality, and Truth!

How can both sides be right or both sides be wrong? In this book Democracy and Solidarity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfeb6ytlm7M James Davison Hunter begins to chip away at the problem. We have cosmopolitan America and provincial America who see the USA from two different paradigms. Our families, friends, communities, cities, states, are now divided among people who believe Trump is saving democracy, and those who believe Trump is destroying democracy. WE must break through to some form of Truth.

I think it's time we focus on the money trail. This divide and conquer is being thrust upon us by Billionaires cutting our society up into pieces for their delight and conquest. It's time to place massive blame on Big Tech algorithms, Big Media false equivalences, horse race gambling politics, Billionaires: (Musk, Zuck, Bezos, Gates, Thiel, Ackman, Robert Mercer, Koch Family). https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2024/11/04/the-billions-behind-the-2024-presidential-election/

At this point, both sides of left and right have a hierarchy that leads to billionaires, and while I personally believe Trump is mentally unstable, a malignant narcissist, unfit to be a President, a criminal, conman, and corrupt; the next person, author, scholar or billionaire is right there to say he is not. We must get to the root of why this is the case and uproot it!

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