After weeks of really bad news for our country, here are some reflections.

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Yes, Our Country is in Chaos

We've just seen six members of the Supreme Court do what George Washington warned us about in his farewell address as he stepped down from the Presidency. They are no longer administering justice and interpreting the law, they are inventing precedent and playing politics, and they know they suffer no consequences because they have a lifetime appointment, given in a day when trust in the honesty and integrity of judges was a requirement to serve. But we've just seen six justices demonstrate that they have no integrity and are not honest. Two of them should have never been put on the court, because the lifestyle they lived, and their previous behavior, should have disqualified them from service. But hypocritical Republicans, more interested in power and influence than in morals or character, did appoint them.

Did anyone really believe that any of the more than 90 criminal indictments against Trump, all based on evidence, would ever come to trial? Only the case in Manhattan, which fell outside the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, reached a verdict, and even that is being challenged by the corrupt Supreme Court ruling on a concept of presidential immunity that never existed until they established it now. I don't expect that the case against Trump for inciting the January 6th insurrection against the Capitol will ever see the light of day.

And with all of this court corruption going on, we have the Democratic party splintering over whether or not Joe Biden has the stamina to run for a second term. Look at this from my perspective, just an ordinary, everyday, professional wage earner, living largely from paycheck to paycheck, about to retire on Social Security and a very small pension. I must ask this question. How seriously are Democrats taking Trump as an existential threat to our democracy? That's been the theme since his attempt to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. But elevating a debate over the fitness of the prospective Democratic nominee in the middle of this chaos is inexcusable.

I, for one, do not believe that Trump can gather enough support to win the 2024 election unless too many good people stay home and don't vote. He's not winning any new voters. And it looks like we will have to fight more than just to get people to the ballot box. I have a feeling, with all of the current chaos, that once the votes are counted, if Biden comes out to be the winner of the electoral vote, there will be all kinds of court challenges, certification delays in red states or by Republican governors, and attempts to turn the vote the other way. So what I'm seeing now, is not encouraging when it comes to holding on to American democracy. There's a lot of money going into defeating it.