Unfair

This weekend the Star Tribune published the story of farmers, many of whom have seen their business dramatically hurt by three years of Trump's ham handed trade and Ag policies, still vow their undying support for a guy who will end up costing many of them their farms.  These are the same people who immediately label a Democratic President a massive failure because they're not all billionaires a week into the Democratic President's term.  "I gave them a chance..."

On Saturday night, Trump spoke to Republican donors at Mar-A-Lago.  The donors applauded as Trump recounted the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Iraq like he was a 16 year old, drunk on Special Export.  If a Democrat would've ever given a speech so incompetently and brazen, not only would the same Republicans demand his resignation for his diplomactic insensitivity, they'd actually make FAR more about a Democrat using Trump's language, as his speech was littered with swear words.  Seriously, the same Republicans applauding Trump would demand a Democrat resign due to bad language.

After Trump and the Republicans removed the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate in 2017, Republicans quickly sued saying the Affordable Care Act was illegal because it was now an unfunded mandate.  Knowing the Republican controlled Supreme Court will rule with them, they went through the legal channels to eventually get the bill up to the Supreme Court.  Now, even though the SCOTUS knows the details of the bill and the case, they've decided to hold off their ruling until 2021, to prevent Republicans from having another election cycle wiped out by their war on Obamacare.

The Supreme Court also weighed in on the Impeachment Case, even though one specific Impeachment charge is not in question.  It's clear Trump is guilty of Contempt of Congress.  There's no debate, yet the Republican controlled Supreme Court insisted on hearing the case, effectively giving Republicans an out in regards to the one slam dunk Impeachment Charge against Trump.  Eventually SCOTUS will rule 9-0 or 8-1 the US House can charge Trump with Contempt, allowing Republicans who dismissed the charge against Trump to insist "if only the Democrats would've waited for the Supreme Court.  Me letting Trump go is now on their heads."

Folks, the system is overwhelmingly tilted against the Democrats due to Republicans who view the world through two different lenses: 1) Republicans NEVER make mistakes 2) Democrats are all demon children needing to be condemned constantly.  And why not?  Their success rate in 40 years can't be argued.  Even when they're insane with their direction and motivation (such as when Trump was their Presidential nominee) they know 100 million Americans can be expected to stay home and ignore their craziness.  They dare the other side to hold them accountable and the other side refuses!

The people in power, mainly a handful of millionaires and billionaires and the Republican politicians they control, have convinced poor white Americans to join them.  It's not as if the powerful will reward those rubes.  Of course not.  Poor white Americans are getting screwed over just as bad as everyone who isn't a millionaire, but because the powerful validate their uneducated stereotypes, bigotry and/or racism they've gleefully signed on to allow the powerful to hurt them too.  It worked for the Confederate South, and it still works today.

Now, as the Impeachment Trial of Trump begins, Republicans under the leadership of a clearly compromised Mitch McConnell are writing rules which make this entire proceeding a joke.  They're like the first jury in The Untouchables, paid off to ignore the undeniable crimes.  If these same Republicans caught a Democrat guilty of ONE TENTH of what we have Trump, that Democratic President would already be out of office.

What can Democrats do to try to fix this system?

First off, VOTE!!!  I don't care if you have to drag your friends and family to the polls, DO IT!  For God's sake; after three years of his first term, Trump has Concentration Camps on the US border where children are not only separated from their parents, not only are thousands of young children being sexually assaulted, but the US government isn't even offering these people basic medical care, leading to many deaths.  THAT IS ONE PROBLEM AFTER ONLY THREE YEARS!  This country will be destroyed if he gets another term, not just for the minorities, but for ALL Americans.

The other thing to do is simple.  NEVER LET ANY REPUBLICAN EVER COMPLAIN ABOUT A DEMOCRAT WITHOUT EXPOSING THEIR TOLERANCE OF FAR WORSE BEHAVIOR FROM THE RIGHT.  Hound them!  Make them admit they're only outraged because of the 'D' next to the person's name.  Maybe if we continue to point out their pettiness, their hypocrisy, and their inconsistency, they might just start realizing the monsters they've become.

Until then, remember this.  A Republican voter could walk into their house and find Trump in bed having sex with their spouse and the first words out of their mouths would be "damn Democrats."  It's who the people truly are; broken.