hate to see my govt go corrupt the way it has.
The underlying gist of my silly post, jem. was that I wouldn't be much concerned about an FBI investigation of myself unless I was actually guilty of a crime. So when we see Trump repeating over and over , beating a dead horse as it were, that the FBI is corrupt, that they are engaged in a witch hunt, we should weigh Trump's behavior and rhetoric against the probability that the FBI would persist in an investigation that is going nowhere producing no evidence of wrong doing, that the Grand Juries convened are all corrupt, the courts are corrupt, and the many indictments handed down so far, the guilty pleas and the convictions. have no substantial evidence behind them.
The chief criminal has planted the idea in your brain that your government is, in general, corrupt, and you can't get it out. The only way your going to be able to get it out and see truth is to ask for the evidence. The truth, jem. is that the government is , in general, not corrupt. Yes, it is from time to time, inefficient, wrong, bungling, but, in general, it is not corrupt. Finding corruption in individual government officials from time to time is not evidence for general corruption in government. Trump, with his staged rhetoric has been able to turn truth on its head in the minds of 30 to 40 million people. It's the classic technique of a demagogue we are witnessing.
By the way you should not call me a Democrat, though I don't much care, when you know I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Of course I voted for Clinton, but I had no choice. I recognized that Trump had a serious personality disorder, disqualifying him, in my opinion, as a candidate. I also knew of his past which was disturbing, and his behavior during the campaign only reinforced my opinion of him. He's turned out to be far far worse as President than I could have imagined.
