IT SHOULD NOT HAVE surprised me to learn that nothing in the law prohibits a convicted felon from being elected president of the United States, nor from serving, and yet, for some reason, it did surprise me. Maybe I'm a bit too idealistic. Why shouldn't criminals be allowed to participate in politics? Most Americans have committed at least one crime, and politics is in itself a field which seems to create a fairly substantial number of criminals. Thus even if Donald Trump, indeed especially if Donald trump is convicted of multiple felonies between now and 20024, say financial fraud, incitement to insurrection, among many other possibilities, he might well run for and be elected president in twenty twenty four. Whether someone in prison can serve as president remains unanswered. Americans love audacious criminals. If Trump starts carrying a bible and a gun everywhere, goes on television, points his gun straight at the camera and tells left wing radicals to all leave the country, he'll get elected. If he shoots someone dead on Manhattan's fifth Avenue, he'll win big. Meanwhile, many republicans want to be president, and think they can be. Very good. the trick is to keep trump out, and to run a reasonable, sane republican against Biden, or whomever. Say bush, Kasich, or Cheney, any of whom I could perhaps support. trump can only destroy the Republican party, because the Trump movement has become too insanely batshit crazy, based on lies and fantasy, and conspiracy theories, with far too many crazy conspiracy theory folks and new age alternative cosmic paradigm freaks buying into the politically and economically and socially corrupt Trump agenda. In the United states we simply allow a crazy situation to endure in which a tiny fraction of the population has a huge percentage of the wealth and power. We must change this. Wealth and power are becoming more and more concentrated, and in the direction we are headed, and have been headed for decades, all too soon a single person will have all the wealth and power. When we reach that point, by then it will be too late to do anything about it.
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