Scandal: It’s the Entire Fucking Point
NOTE: the text was not written by me and is from reddit user mvw2. The only changes were minor formatting for readability. I would merely link to reddit if they had a way to highlight comments, but they do not.
The original post.
[ED: the comment below was a reply to “What’s a Scandal When Everything Is Outrageous, and it’s all about Trump, of course.]
Everything. Everything is a scandal. Everything is outrageous. This is a person, if it was anyone else, if it was a Democrat, any Democrat doing the same things, that person would have been impeached 100 times over, and the media onslaught against that person would be immense.
The reality is Trump is an unstable idea propped up, with tremendous effort by many thousands of people, to be allowed to continue to exist. He alone is unviable at any level. His purpose is to be the target. His purpose is to be the focus. Everyone else supporting him have their own agendas and goals, and they’re all following through with them gleefully outside of the spotlight.
But we don’t have a government institution capable of protecting itself from this. This is very much a good faith institution. It assumes most involved are moral, ethical, and professional. It assumes that what should be extremely few bad actors are dealt with by the moral, ethical, and professional parties. The 3 branch system and powers of those branches are designed with this in mind. It does not fathom an entire political party being collectively bad actors. It does not fathom 2 of the three branches becoming conspiring bad actors to turn the 3rd branch also into a bad actor. It assumes this is largely impossible. So, there’s very few protections against it… outside of time and a Constitution that’s exceptionally hard to change by force.
The only saving grace is everyone rules on a time limit, some by term, some by death. And we have a Constitution that requires a full 3/4 super majority in the House and Senate or a 3/4 super majority in State legislatures to modify. At worst, this only allows significant detriment to be temporary. However the repair of the damage could very literally take decades to correct, if ever. There’s a LOT already that simply can’t be undone. The damage is permanent.
What’s worse is so few truly understand what has been lost. So exceptionally few truly recognize how far back all of this has taken us as nation. Even on a personal level, individual families, there’s even the long term fiscal toll that’s forever for that family, each family. From a net zero starting point, the estimate of Trump’s influence on each and every person’s life wealth is around -$400,000. That’s how much poorer you’ll be simply from him being president just this one term and solely based on tariffs alone. Your life is about a half a million dollars poorer over the next several decades simply by what’s happening right now. There’s no fix for that. You’re just out that wealth potential. Gone. Just fucking gone. That affects you directly. And that’s not even the bad stuff. That’s just simple money. The actual bad stuff that’s happening is truly cruel, monstrously cruel.