re: #256 Belafon

Far too many Americans viewed a lot of Trump’s schenagans like the way you overlook your shady uncle (I had one of those uncles): He made a little money under the table that you didn’t agree with, but they didn’t harm anyone as far as you were concerned. But then you heard about him being arrested in the news and went “I kind of knew he would go too far.”

Something that has happened in the age of Trump is that a lot of people aren’t holding the office to a higher standard, because he was chosen to be the racist uncle who says the things they can’t out loud (yeah, my uncle was that person, too), and because he said those things, he and my mom got into fights at Thanksgiving and Christmas (my mom, for all of issues with racism, was still the least racist person on her side of the family).

The thing is, while we’ve all had that uncle or somebody like them in the family, it shouldn’t take for them getting arrested for everybody at the table to agree that something should have been done. The total lack of bravery on the part of our politicians, the willingness to do the right then even when it’s not popular, is totally lacking and that says nothing good about our Republic’s future. There is going to be somebody slicker and more disciplined who comes along after Trump is gone, and he’s going to totally wreck our shit because too many in our government are okay with that so long as they still have a job after November.