The Mueller Report and the Barr Summary

This is an example for America.  This is how the rule of law, not the rule of political angst or mob rule work.  This is the culmination of a very thorough investigation with decisions based on law, not emotion.  And now, for those who are bemoaning that the objective law did not satisfy their grief, it is time to grow up.

Here are some further thoughts.

The Democrats Show Their True Colors

Two years ago the Democrats were not able to face the fact that they lost the election.  Rather than try to understand what it was about Donald Trump and his policies that appeals to much of America, rather than examine their own policies to see what they were lacking, the Democrats simply chose to assume they were right, that they should have won, and that the only way they could have lost was if the other side had cheated.  (No space here to go into the psychological concepts about seeing others through one’s own eyes, assuming they behave like you, and how the Democrats generally and Hillary in particular seemed to approach rules and law as something to get around and perhaps even cheat against)

So, rather than accept defeat and work with the new president for the good of the country, the Democrats spent their time focused on finding ways to remove President Trump from office: fake dossier, lies to FISA court, lies to the public, and 25 million of tax payer money on an investigation that realistically all knew would not find collusion and without collusion could not find obstruction.  (That is, all who were not completely deluded by jealousy or hate or what has come to be know as Trump Derangement Syndrome)

The Democrats have shown us that they care not at all for our country or our laws or our constitution or our people.  They have made it perfectly clear with their monomaniacal focus on destroying Trump that all they care about is themselves and their own power.

Beyond that, their followers have shown us how ignorant they are of the law and how our country works.  They have been content to scream for what they want without evidence but with the passion of a mob.  The main stream media has joined in as each anti-Trump network and reporter sought to outdo the others with excessive opinion couched in the guise of reportable news.

And the Democrats are still angry.  Any American should be overjoyed that the duly elected president did not collude with a foreign power to sway the election.  They should understand that under the law the Attorney General properly made a decision about obstruction.  Yet, many Democrats are voicing their anger that our president was not found guilty.  And so, the report that they have touted as thorough and objective they now dismiss as incomplete or biased.  They will continue their hate parade as they claw and grasp at anything they can in the hopes of destroying this president, a subject that is far more important to them than the country and people that they allegedly serve.

Yet Think What Could and Should Have Been

Just imagine if all these Trump haters had, instead of pursuing their own angst, decided to be Americans who care about their country.  We have some of the lowest unemployment figures ever.  We have made progress towards peace on the international stage.  The economy is growing.  Our country is thriving again, and all this despite the fact that the President and his administration has been under constant attack every hour of every day since he was elected.   Imagine the even greater accomplishments if the Democrats had not been focused on trying to prohibit any accomplishment for America and Americans that the current administration put forth.

Imagine if instead of constant focus on a bogus allegation brought forth based on partisan lies, that the media had chosen to focus on the many other important stories and had chosen to present them without the ever-present anti-Trump bias.  Imagine, for example, if we saw objective reporting about the border crisis and if the Democrats had realistically sought to address the problem, if not with a wall then with some other form of security that would protect the daily invasion of hundreds of illegals into our country. 

Imagine if the Democrats and their media had chosen to include in their news feeds many of this administration’s accomplishments, instead of focusing attacks daily on Trump’s character.  Imagine if they had chosen to present anything about Trump without at the same time throwing shade on even achievements that did nothing but good for our country.

Imagine if the Democrats had taken the time to listen and hear voices from the other side of the political debate instead of simply trying to condemn and silence them at every turn.  If, instead of spreading hatred and its cohort identity politics, that the Democrats, instead of trying to divide us at every turn, had chosen to follow the words of another President, Bill Clinton: “For any one of us to succeed, we must succeed as ONE America.”

In America, we follow rules.  We have elections.  When our candidate loses, we must face our defeat with joy that the system works, and we must all support those who have been elected by our fellow Americans.  The phrase “loyal opposition” includes two, not one word; with the opposition to a policy or position comes also the understanding and responsibility of loyalty to our country and its elected leaders, even those for whom we as individuals did not vote. 

Had the Democrats understood how this, our Democracy works, we would have had 2 years of even more good news for our country both domestically and abroad.  We would have had less anger and less hate.

What Next?

So now the Democrats can grow up and show us that they have finally learned how to maturely handle adversity, or they can continue in their childish quest to destroy the man who hurt them by winning an election. 

They can try to change the election process and eliminate the electoral college so that they will perhaps have their way next time (and will most certainly have an unfair mob rule rather than the representative government that makes our country great).  They can try to stack the Supreme Court with 15 or more justices hoping that someone will rule in their favor.  They can continue to challenge and demean every action and word of the President and his followers, they can block even those actions and words that would benefit America.  They can continue their investigatory witch hunts costing the country millions of dollars as well as essentially destroying our system of government and law. They can refuse to accept Mueller’s conclusions and that the Attorney General was fulfilling his obligation under the law in reviewing the report and concluding that the evidence did not support obstruction charges. That is, they can continue to act like jealous and spiteful children, not giving up when they get news they don’t like, then changing the goal posts and trying to find some other way to get what they want.

Or, the Democrats can just buck up and face reality.  They lost the election.  They had a man they respected until yesterday do a thorough prosecutorial investigation and find nothing supportive of the charges they sought.  They do not like the President.  He is the President.  He has done many good things for the country and for the people of the country.  Many people support his policies.  The Democrats can seek to temper some of what they don’t like by listening to the people of this country and by reaching across the aisle achieving something that used to be fairly common in the halls of Congress – compromise.

The media can and should take a time out from their anti-Trump reporting and do some self-examination.  They need to ask themselves if they are fulfilling their important role of informing the people of this democratic republic, or have they abandoned that important task to become entertainers and purveyors of propaganda?

Republicans must be careful not to gloat.  It is easy, having been under attack for two years while stating the obvious – that the investigation was a witch hunt – to gloat when proven right.  But, if the Democrats should finally stop their infantile behavior and investigations and decide to do the work of the country that they were elected to do, then the Republicans must reach out with open arms to accept this.  On the other hand, if the Democrats have learned nothing from these 2 years, if they seek to continue their campaign of hate, then every Republican should stand in opposition to what is nothing less than assaults upon our very democracy itself.

I hope that the Mueller report brings an ugly 2 years to a close and we can now move forward to other stories and issues that are far more important.  I hope that the Mueller report reminds people that in the end we are a country of laws and that if we expect to preserve all the wonders and benefits that this country has to offer that we must support that rule of law and live by it rather than emotion and political hate.  

Each and every one of us has the personal responsibility to support all that this great nation stands for.  We have allowed the disgruntled left to act out their angst for 2 years.  Now, all of us who truly care about America must say “It is time to move on, to move forward, to work always to make America great” and we must demand that our elected officials put their country and constituents before themselves and their own power.  With this commitment American will flourish.

The Tragedy That Is the Democrats

Today I am just sad and bewildered.  How can so many people, indeed, an entire political party, hate this exceptional country so much?

As I read the news this week it feels like we are in the final throes of a war; the Democrats are waging their largest battle against the president, his supporters, and everything that traditional Americans hold dear.  They have joined forces with the media who have not a shred of credibility left as reporters of facts and who long ago gave up their once noble role of objectively keeping the people informed. 

This battle has many soldiers.  For example Adam Schiff, whose sole goal since 2016 has been to destroy Donald Trump.  His obsession is not unlike that of the fictional and monomaniacal Captain Ahab whose hunt for revenge sends him and his crew on a fanatical mission that ultimately leads to their destruction.  Schiff has now hired NBC reporters to help him dig up dirt to further his single-minded goal of destroying Trump.  They are joined in this mission by Jerry Nadler who has filed over 60 subpoenas and requests for information that are nothing more than a fishing expedition to find something, anything, that might be cooked into some sort of allegedly impeachable offense.  And all the rest of the Democrats have jumped on board to do whatever they can to win this crusade.

The Democrats hate Donald Trump in the same blindingly pathological way that Captain Ahab hated Moby Dick.    Why they hate him is unclear; to some extent it may be that he does not wear the cloak of refinement that they pretend to wear.  To others it is that they see him as the thief of the power to which they believed they were permanently entitled.  Others may be concerned that he stands in the way of their progressive or socialist agenda.   Whatever the reason, they are seeking revenge and are willing to destroy anything that stands in the way of the satisfaction they think they will feel upon Trump’s destruction.

They will accept as collateral damage the end of the rule of law, the end of defined borders, the murder of infants born alive, international peace and the strength of America on the world stage, the basic freedoms that make America what it is, including freedom of speech and the right to hold one’s own values and religion.  They are not interested in the Constitution or in defending it; they are not interested in fairness or equal application of law.  And most certainly they are not interested in facts.

They trash, ignore, deny, and degrade Trump’s many accomplishments, perhaps because he has accomplished what they couldn’t or wouldn’t over the past many years (wouldn’t because, like any good dictator, they need a permanent underclass to support their power; things like improved economy and low unemployment empower those whom the Democrats would keep down.)  They fight the president on things that they have supported in the past.  They schedule ridiculous hearings at the same time as a sensitive North Korean summit that could end a nuclear threat; they would prefer to disrupt a summit than to support our country – their only interest is their own selfish obsession.

The Democrats seem to fully hate America in the same way that a toddler hates anything and anyone that gets in the way of his gratification.  What we see is that the Democrats are as self-centered as a toddler; they want everything their way whether that is the will of the people or not, whether that is best for the country or not.  Like Captain Ahab they will destroy the entire ship of state and everyone in it to satisfy their irrational and selfish need for revenge.  Again, revenge for what?  The only logical answer is that they want revenge because Trump won the election.  Really?  Grown adults unable to accept the results of an election while they claim to care about the country?  This is laughable and yet we seem to let them continue to act out their tantrum while ruining the country in the process.

This is the same sort of tragedy portrayed in such classics as Oedipus, Narcissus, Shakespeare’s Lear, Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost, to name a few.  Perhaps the reason the behavior is not recognized as dangerous is that those classics are no longer read thanks in great part to the Democrats seeking their ban from school curricula. 

The Democrats are taking advantage of the underclass they have created.  Education no longer teaches critical thinking but instead seeks to impose a particular thought into the students.  Religion is demeaned and those who maintain faith are often ridiculed.  I often think that the hatred that comes from the Left toward those who do think and question as well as those who hold a deep faith within is not so much disdain as jealousy.  These people whom the Democrats would silence are often happier and more tolerant that their attackers.  This flies in the face of the emptiness that seems to exist within the hearts of Democrats.  They don't understand how those who are not following them can be happier than their own dark hearts allow.

The Democrats need their underclass.  They need people whom they have convinced cannot succeed without their help.  That is how the Democrats hold their power.  Trump is showing people, all people, that they can succeed.  He is not defining certain races  or other groups as secondary but is making it possible for all to work and support a family, to get off welfare and take pride in themselves, to identify not by external group labels but by their individual talents and beliefs.  That, by the way, is America.  And that is what the Democrats hate.