Last year I donated money to the DNC. From that moment on my email was overwhelmed with requests for money from everyone running for office from dog catcher to senator. It seems that the rule for democratic elections is “whoever has the most money wins.” It shouldn’t be that way because it means that the rich will always win. The poor people and the little businesses can’t match the billionaires and the big corporations with contributions, and so the decisionmakers who rule over all of us, favor the rich with their laws. It’s not fair. It’s not right. My old grandmother would say, ‘Who told you the world was fair?”
Well, no one! I guess it isn’t fair. The way the world works with children dying of cancer and starvation , and bombs destroying cities that have stood for thousands of years, it’s easy to see that the world, as it is, is not fair at all.
But our idea – the one that supports this nation we all love and live in _ that idea is that with a system of laws, and adherence to those laws, we as a society can create a kind of fairness for ourselves and our children. The fairness we build into our laws is not perfect, but it is an attempt to make things as fair as possible.
Somehow, the country has become split into two groups, the super rich billionaires, and those who support them, and the shrinking middle class and the poor and homeless. How can that group – the shrinking middle class and the poor and homeless possibly match the other group with contributions ? We can’t. And so, the rules that we want about health care, minimum wage, education, abortion, and representation are defeated and the rules that prevail help the rich get richer and more powerful. This terrible situation is likely to put Donald Trump in the White House and it will mean the end of any laws that create fairness for most of us.
The sad thing is that most of the people who support Trump are those who will be hurt most by his rule. And it will be RULE, although the Constitution was designed to prevent any division of the government from ruling. Trump will help the rich become richer. He will make the poor poorer and the lame unable to walk. He will become what third world countries have endured, a tyrant and a dictator. He tells us that every day in his speeches and his Truth tirades. Are we listening? Are the FOX watchers aware? He is determined to be an unquestioned ruler. The the government men and women who hover around him seem to have learned nothing from the group who followed him to the White House before in 2020. Their backs still bleed!