The other day, I posted an image similar to this with the phrase:
Lock him up!
Lock him up!
Lock him up!
And she responded, replying that Biden should be the one locked up. Regardless of how one feels about Trump and Biden, I am disgusted by both parties' inability to discipline troublesome members when they break the law. I was one who said that Bill Clinton should have been impeached for committing perjury in regard to having sex with Monica Lewinsky. I was also in favor of going after Bush #43 for unwarranted searches (actually, unwarranted, secret wiretaps) after 9/11. Yet, I would have given him a hall pass on that if Congress had given him an express OK. So when the GOP refused to discipline Trump, I was appalled.
Being a member of the LGBT community, I feel at risk by the laws being passed in our most conservative states. The radical right would rather us not exist, and wants to deny us the medical treatment we need when it is called for, as well as denying us our basic civil rights. Trump gave the radical right a hall pass to pass laws that would disenfranchise us in exchange for them looking the other way while he cut deals with unsavory characters and with foreign powers.
The radical right wants to use our existence as if it were a waving red cape at a bull in a bullfight. To preserve their power, the right's leaders are making us their focus of hatred. Considering that my acquaintance likely uses Fox "News" as her only news source, I can't help but believe that a reasonably sane person can be corrupted by a steady diet of misinformation that reinforces her existing beliefs.
I don't believe that our current president is guilty of a crime. However, I do believe that the son is guilty of a crime for which he had a plea bargain deal, and should have been allowed to cop the plea. Instead, we will have a trial where justice is not served. The verdict passed on the son may (or may not) be just, and the trial will be used by the political right to smear our president. So I closed out the conversational thread by saying that if there is evidence, the father should be tainted. But if not, the political right should stop stirring up the base with falsehoods.
It saddens me that we no longer have the "fairness doctrine" to preserve objectivity in news reporting. If this were in effect today, we wouldn't have a nation as polarized as we are now.
