On a national level, the pandemic is enough of a menace to remind people to put their differences on hold — to recall that it’s time for Americans to remember what unites them. But it’s been an election year. Up is down and down is up. Truth and trust are on extended leave. And the dogs of war are in the streets. Less than a year ago, America was rockin’ and rollin’. All the signs pointed up. They pointed up for both majorities and minorities, for black and white and everything in between, for Main Street and Wall Street. The power of positive thinking occupied the White House and filled the air. And while Donald Trump was busy putting the American people first, his mutinous enemies were busily, criminally, using incendiary tactics to kick him out of their Club. Under this unprecedented attack, his own Party’s establishment mostly stood on the sidelines, acquiescent as ever. They never wanted him in the Club to begin with. However, don’t be naive. American politics has always been a duplicitous, deceptive, dirty business. That allegation doesn’t mean honor and integrity — or good works — are absent from the Beltway. Honor, like God, isn’t dead. It does mean, however, that the majority of elected officials put their political careers ahead of all other considerations — something The Founders just didn’t expect. Instead, their best laid plans for the concept of public service has been obliterated by a simple human aspiration — wealth. Median net assets in Congress are well over a million bucks. True, quite a few went to Washington with mega bucks. Quite a few others got well on the Beltway. Let’s see — in 2008, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) was worth $123K and change. He’s House Agriculture Committee chair. Today, his average net assets are $4MM+. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) was worth less than six figures in 2008. Today? A mere $7.1MM. It took ten years for Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)to find some coin, but he did it — magically turning $600K into $10.7MM. For most of the 19th century, lawmakers served 1-3 years, doing their bit part-time as citizen legislators. Gradually, things changed. Tenure escalated. Public service mutated to self serving. Average tenure now is 8-10 years — average. That means at least 100+ members hang out for 15-20+ years. The issue isn’t in dispute. Money controls Washington. The money game begins during election races. On average, candidates running for a seat in Congress spend over $10 million of somebody’s money. The big money has “strings.” The seat is expensive and stays that way. Very few marginally bright people would argue that fact. In 36 hours or so, millions of people will cast votes for a guy who has milked the system for 47 years. He used his office as influence to reap millions from foreign governments, a practice that in times past would have been punishable by death. Think of it — instead of a firing squad, he might get to face “The Squad” as he attempts to take the Oath of Office. Yes, think of it — Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Reagan — and — and — Biden. Do you cry or laugh at the absurdity? The Founders read and spoke several languages. Biden is a serial plagiariser who can’t speak intelligible English. When the dust settles in two days or two months, nothing will change the sickness in D.C. In the simplest terms, Democrats and Republicans are in a gang war. The war has nothing to do with the American people and nothing to do with The Constitution — but to see which Party runs the show. Both Parties are unnerved, if not terrified, by Donald. He’s churning The Swamp. Astonishingly, he has publicly supported congressional term limits. Wham! He’s opposed to America’s being sucked into a New World Order and world communism disguised as “stakeholder capitalism.” He’s dedicated 100% to 100% American sovereignty. So don’t lose sight of the stakes. No President in your lifetime has worked harder than Trump. Win or lose, he will expose the worth and character of the American people.

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