Huge shift in values since the Constitution was written to bring us to this election campaign with a criminal candidate.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/americas-values-have-changed.html

But who could have imagined that a criminal, a man who has been a business fraud, pathological liar, and sexual deviant and rapist, for most of his adult life, could ascend to the Presidency on the votes of the people, though it was the irregularity and undemocratic Electoral College that got him there? The founders didn't have any forethought of that happening. But here we are. The predictions prior to his election to office, that he would become a corrupt despot, and use the power of the Presidency for his own self-serving benefit came true in his first few months in office.

Our justice and legal systems run on money, not justice. And that's one thing that's wrong with this country. Values have changed. The difference between "wrong" and "right" is no longer discernable.

There's no comparison in terms of the character and morality required to be a leader, something that Evangelicals once claimed was more important that the issues, between Joe Biden and his opponent, a multiple-bankrupted, adulterous womanizer, a convicted rapist and fraudulent business operator, an election cheat and a pathological liar. And on top of that, an opponent whose term in office was rated as the worst in all of American history by a group of respected, non-partisan Presidential scholars.

His opponent has been convicted of rape in a civil court, and convicted on 34 counts of felony fraud in a scheme to cover up his affair with a porn star while his wife was pregnant and raising an infant son. He has also been indicted on multiple other felonies related to inciting insurrection against the United States and to the theft of classified documents related directly to national security, including the unauthorized showing of the documents to people without security clearance. He sold the country's diplomacy out with his cowering to Putin and to Kim Jong Un, so he can get advantages in business deals in their countries.

[TygrBright]

1. True. When the Constitution was written, a black individual was 3/5 of a person and women were property. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

2. Our FFs didn't envision voters enamored w/ a psychopath criminal.

Yes the greatest moral collapse in US history.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Every so often I wonder how TFG would have fared if

A time-traveling bubble took him from the present day to the Manhattan of the 1790’s. As rough and tumble (and racist) as many of New York’s elite were back then, I doubt that they would have stood for Donald John’s personal behavior or business practices for very long, even if they had believed that he’d been elected President in 2016.