"...a tainted, meanly obsequious age"

and objectivity ( if it exisits...we could debate ) has fled...i have said elsewhere that the new york indictment is a tempest in a tea pot and will likely amount to nothing in the way of deterring donny's 2024 run at imperial power...you'd think a federal indicment on mishandling of sensitive and secret documents might have more impact...then again...

the judge in the case is a trump appointee...and if she intends to hold this trial in florida i cannot see where it would be possible to find jurors who were not predisposed to have a verdict in mind ( on either side of the guilty/not guilty divide...divisions everywhere )...donny is a deeply divisive charater...actually most politicians are because they want to present a false image of difference in outlook and agenda...when the reality is they are pretty much in agreement with one another on most issues...or, at least, far closer in opinion that they would like the polity to realize...and, once again, a conviction in either of these cases would not prevent him seeking office or holding it if elected...likely all any of this is going to do is harden attitudes...his base will vote trump just to eveince their visceral dislike ( if not hatred ) of anyone who dislikes donny...just another political "fuck you"...and when did this beocme so overt? i probably said "fuck nixon" and, in fact, have said "fuck these people" about policians as a class repeatedly...i have never flown a "fuck biden" ( or a fuck anybody flag for that matter ) outside my house...well..there never has been a sense of objectivity in american politics...

the 1800 presidential election was well before my time, however, what i have read and what i can scrounge up in the way of primary documents tells me that the division was as deep and as virulent then as it is now...so...where are we? sliding into yet another vile political season where political rallies will keep emotion in place as the prevailing mechanism for political decision-making ( one presumes that , were she stil with us, leni riefenstahl would have more work than she could handle ) and anyone who doesn't agree with your political vision is pure evil and should be disenfranchised ( at the very least ) because they cannot see how righteous your faction is...welcome to politics in the late empire...you'd think it couldn't get much uglier...it's early yet though...no doubt surprises await both sides as the divsions widen...