The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926
{ed. Note – please read the entire post before sending e-mails that we have surrendered our conservative bona fides}
The Madison Conservative, like most of the world, has taken note of the Donald Trump trial and the verdict. Naturally we have an opinion on the entire thing, but like our vote, believe that it is nobody’s business what that opinion might include.
This platform is dedicated to the greatest document ever conceived by the mind of man on the concept of freedom. It is with regard to the United States Constitution that will frame this discussion.
To wit:
The ignorance of the political left is equal to the blather on the political right. Media personalities on the left are actually celebrating the guilty verdict with no concept of what has happened. Their psychotic hatred of Trump is now satiated by their ability to use the term ‘convicted felon, without the ability to explain the crime. They exhort the claim that nobody is above the law.
Agreed.
But neither is anyone below the law. We will await the outcome of the appeals process before dismantling the political lefts’ outright stupidity on the Trump verdict. Because our allegiance is only to the Constitution, rest assured the political right will receive similar treatment.
No sooner was the verdict read than the loudest voices on the right began clamoring that America was doomed and investigations into the judge, the prosecutor, the jury and the entire New York legal system must begin post-haste..
As a wise woman once told me, and forgive the language, “a pox on both their houses.”
Sounds about right.
What troubles the Madison Conservative most is that had the decision been NOT GUILTY, or a hung jury, the side would have reflexively flipped, and with the same measure of ignorance.
Consider the incompatible inconsistencies of their collective arguments.
The guilty outcome was said to prove that the system worked.
From a Constitutional perspective, it did.
Those who disagree are waiting for the Constitutional appeals process to redress an injustice. If the left loses with the appeals process, will they spit vitriol and claim the system is rigged? Will the political right, if victorious, apologize for their disrespect of the Constitution?
We believe yes to the former and no to the latter.
We ask both sides to stop, take a deep breath and count to the ten amendments.
American democracy is often a messy process, but such is the result when a free people are involved.
The greatest nation has endured turbulence before and will again.
We implore the loudest voices to stop fomenting hatred for their fellow Americans.
Of course, they could always provide the names of all their friends to the committee. America – one nation, indivisible, land of the free BECAUSE of the BRAVE.
Have a great summer. And be nice to each other.
Thank you.
