The Brink

The Democrats are now actively and openly suborning perjury and creating ex post facto crimes to move bills of attainder. It is now I think impossible for the two sides to establish even that modicum of trust needed for any compromise. Indeed the Democrats cannot trust each other and need the momentum of confrontation, which creates an almost physical force, with enemies to hold their troops together. If they hold still then they will strike at the nearest objects, including each other, or sink like sharks.

This places the nation in an extraordinarily dangerous position. It resembles the situation in England during March - April of 1640 when a case was manufactured to force a Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Stafford. Only in the current case the victims are being openly coerced to participate in manufacturing a case against the President.

As we speak Netanyahu in Israel, who is Trump's ally and the great foreign hate object for all the antisemites at home and abroad, is facing indictment on charges which are at best doubtful and which have been prepared by partisans, in a process similar to that used by Mueller and the Democrats, who are allied to those that Obama assisted in an effort to unseat Netanyahu in the last Israeli election.

What can stop this naked coup d'etat? It is possible that America will be torn apart but even if it is not then either due to paralysis or the replacement of the President by those who are genuinely colluding with foreign powers it becomes likely that across the globe we may see orgies of violence. In South America, Africa, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia, and possibly in Europe, those who have been restrained by America may strike while the iron is hot. Millions or maybe hundreds of millions may die. Trade may collapse, with even greater devastation to follow. Nuclear war could break out.

The Greens may get their dream of a simple sustainable technologically low energy and recyclable society with a limited population.

We may hope that like a god from a machine some patriots will produce evidence of crimes and conspiracies by Schiff (pederastic statutory rape of boys) and the other Democrats. Supporters of the President have repeatedly voiced the expectation that there was some office, such as the prosecutor in Utah, acting on his behalf to gather evidence and act once the conspirators showed their hand. The hands are showing and the cards are on the table but I do not see who will stop the plot. Hope is not a plan.