Federal Court of Appeals Warns America but No One Is Listening or Cares

In the closing paragraph of the opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit they write, “Benjamin Franklin said, at the founding, that we have ‘[a] Republic’ — ‘if [we] can keep it.’ The events of January 6th exposed the fragility of those democratic institutions and traditions that we had perhaps come to take for granted. In response, the President of the United States and Congress have each made the judgment that access to this subset of presidential communication records is necessary to address a matter of great constitutional moment for the Republic. Former President Trump has given this court no legal reason to cast aside President Biden’s assessment of the Executive Branch interests at stake, or to create a separation of powers conflict that the Political Branches have avoided.” This quote from Franklin has been often referenced as of late for obvious reasons — America’s democracy is dying! It is even more striking that an appeals court found it worthy — nay, urgently necessary — to include such words, perhaps as a reminder of the current, dangerous state of our democracy. Now, if only the rest of stupid America understood the danger. I expected nothing less from morons of America who apparently just don’t care — witness Virginia’s last election results. RepubliKKKlans, led by traitor trump and the MAGA moron mob, are killing America’s democracy, and what do voters do? Reward them with electoral wins. I know they say all politics is local, but f***ing hell! Seriously, people. Just for f***ing once can you f***tards take a grander perspective to recognize giving RepubliKKKlans power at any level destroys America everywhere. Oh, well. I give up. This level of stupid cannot be reversed. I have to keep reminding myself of that fact. This case goes to SCOTUS next and we all know most of the justices sitting on that panel love the idea of authoritarian rule; they love the notion of a unitary executive (read: imperial presidency), but not when a Democrat is sitting in the White House in which case the unitary executive deference reverts to the prior guy! The backsliding cannot be stopped and these ephemeral judicial wins are merely bumps in the road to the dead-end that is autocracy. Welcome to stupid America — too stupid for democracy!