The rule of law is now on the ballot in 2024
Donald Trump does not believe in the rule of law, because Trump believes he is above the law.
Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by 12 ordinary Americans on 34 felony counts of lawbreaking. He is guilty of consciously and deliberately covering up sexual hush money for his adultery, in order to illegally benefit his election in 2016 as President of the United States. That has never happened before to any president or former president. It was a culmination of the word that has always described Donald Trump’s behavior – unprecedented.
Trump’s response to the pronouncement of his guilt for illegally manipulating official documents to cover up his serial sexual immorality was to again blame other people and systems and take no responsibility for himself and his own behavior. He attacked the legal and judicial system itself as fundamentally “corrupt,” “shameful,” and “rigged” against him.
The facts and evidence never matter to Trump, despite the consistent respect from people across American politics demonstrated for the judge, the jury and the trial. Trump attacked the court and judiciary system because it ruled against him. Just like he attacked the electoral system when he lost the 2020 election, despite the overwhelming evidence of a fair outcome. Trump judges judicial and electoral systems solely by how they treat him. Like with everything else, for Trump everything is only about him.
Donald Trump does not believe in the rule of law - because Trump believes he is above the law. Donald Trump does not believe in elections unless he wins them. And Donald Trump does not believe in the peaceful transfer of power unless the power is transferred to him.
That is the electoral choice we face on November 5, and in the days before and after. It is not about two candidates and their policy differences. These are the deeper factors that we need to understand and find our best responses to. It is now clear that a full third of the American people no longer believe that elections are legitimate. And a strong majority of one party – the Republicans – don’t accept the fact that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Donald Trump lost. We have never had such a crisis of electoral legitimacy and unwillingness to accept the outcome of elections.
On Thursday, May 30, the moral issues went deeper – to a fundamental attack on the rule of law by a candidate who believes he should be above the law.
Donald Trump makes more people lie and be like him. Trump makes more people hate others and be like him. Trump makes people more selfish and be more like him. And now Trump says that we can disregard the rule of law and the judicial system in America. Trump will make people lawless to be more like him.
Our choice in these next few months is increasingly clear – especially for people of faith and moral conscience. Who will stand up to tell the truth and who will sit silently?
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Remember that Joe Biden is a war criminal complicit in Genocide who has attacked the rule of international law. He too is opposed to the rule of law. We must go outside the duopoly to have any possibility of positive change.
Democracy requires principled, moral choices
If we believe we’re choosing a lesser evil between
* an insurrectionist, racist, misogynist, felon, convicted rapist and fraudster, a lying climate denier, and
* a genocide arms provider, who voted 3 times against a ceasefire, with blood on his hands of over 15,000 dead children and their family members, a war hawk who already bombed 5 Muslim countries this year, an on-again, off-again climate advocate,
are we not truly choosing between evil and evil?
Is convincing ourselves that one of these is less evil and voting for him a principled, moral decision?
If we are principled and vote our conscience for an alternate, we support democracy, and send a message that we do not support any evil but are a moral force to be reckoned with!
And we keep our conscience intact.