By Dr. Michael Hurd
America Is Now Worse Than a Banana Republic
Regardless of what you think of Trump, (and I despise him). There is something much deeper and more sinister going on.
In a true banana republic, when there’s a coup, the opposition is immediately jailed, if not murdered.
America is different. We have a rule of law. The Constitution was set up to be “a nation of laws, not of men.” It counted on one very important thing: objectivity. So long as most men — especially the men in government — remained intellectually honest and objective, the rule of law could work. When some were dishonest or tried to weaponize the government against personal enemies, the three branches of government were there to protect us, most of the time, in the end. It was assumed there would always be at least two opposing parties, instead of one gigantic Uniparty committed to destruction of the the rights of the citizens.
The moment everything becomes subjective, then all bets are off. That’s what happened in our culture. It started with our culture, and then it ended with the demise of our republic. Yes, we still have a Constitution, but in name only. Clearly, not in practice. If the rule of law were applied objectively, then Donald Trump would never have been indicted 3 times (and counting).
“It doesn’t matter,” most of the conservatives I know keep saying. “It won’t happen. It can’t happen.” But it’s already happening! They’re using the rule of law embodied in the Constitution and using it to bury the previous President of the United States and the overwhelming front runner for the next election. They’re doing it in the name of the Constitution and the rule of law. And they’re literally making up charges, or else charging him with felonies for things that former presidents going back to Reagan (at least) have been known to do, and things that former vice presidents (including Biden, and even Trump’s own vice president, Pence) have openly done.
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