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It is declared, fallaciously, that America is a “democracy,” and that supposed democracy is now in danger from aggressive and vile challengers, that is to say the former president and his staff. 

“A grand jury has subpoenaed several associates of former President Donald Trump in connection with the Department of Justice’s investigation into the origins of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, [indicate] multiple people familiar with the case,” reports the corporate media.

As should be more than obvious, the “riot” at the nation’s Capitol was blown severely out of proportion for propaganda purposes. Most Americans are not aware (being largely political imbeciles) that the FBI and Capitol Police played a major role instigating violence and property damage during the mischaracterized riot. The New York Times admitted as much, but threw in the typical spin, making excuses for Stasi-like tactics.

Last September, The Hill reported the “FBI had an informant in the crowd during the Jan. 6 attack,” an unlikely prospect, as I have researched the state’s political police force for a number of years. There were undoubtedly numerous FBI informants and agents provocateurs embeded in the demonstration against what is perceived to be an illegitimate and rigged election.

There was an event more than a decade ago that did not result in FBI subversion and the Democrat push to hobble Republicans, tar and feathering them all as Trump loyalists and dangerous extremists, even “fascists” (the politically illiterate “representatives” in Congress know virtually nothing about real fascism).

The event occurred on December, 2011. On that date Congress was occupied by labor activists. “Our Occupy Congress actions on the steps of Congress were unsanctioned by Democratic Party leadership,” said Nick Brana, National Chair of the People’s Party.

“I was there when the Squad occupied Congress and the police treated the group with velvet gloves. When dozens of us with the People’s Party took the steps on Labor Day, the police were so determined to stop us from occupying Congress that they arrested Paula Jean Swearengin, Jackson Hinkle, Martin Gugino and I and kicked everyone else, protesters and tourists, off the Capitol grounds and closed it entirely,” he wrote.

Unlike the January 6 “protest,” nobody was shot to death or beaten by police during the aborted occupation. Nobody was sent to solitary confinement.

More than a decade ago, at the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, a mob of Democrats occupied the state house.

“Most conservatives have condemned the right-wing mob that assaulted the U.S. Capitol. But 10 years ago, Democrats embraced the left-wing mob that occupied the state Capitol in Madison,” writes Marc A. Thiessen for The Washington Post. “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised the occupiers for an ‘impressive show of democracy in action’ and tweeted as they assaulted the Capitol that she continued ‘to stand in solidarity’ with the union activists. In other words, Democrats were for occupying capitols before they were against it. (Emphasis added.)

In other words, if the cause reflects the agenda of the elite that own the Democrat-Republican one party system, the authorities will respond in a more mild mannered fashion.

Obviously, Trump is an outsider, an outlier, and his surprise victory of the electoral vote was considered completely unacceptable by the one-party pretending to be two separate and (according to the corporate media) divided parties.

Trump was, of course, a disaster. I do not want to see him re-elected, but if that’s what the American people want, the ideologically radical Democrat party must step aside. Of course, they will not, as the legal and propaganda shenanigans went on nonstop during his tenure and continue until this very day. The Democrats are determined to get Trump indicted and put behind bars, thus revealing their endless venality for any opposition to their corporate-dominated rule.

This is normal behavior for a ruling party. For them, only the opposition is capable of criminality and extremism, no matter the political platform or popular support. Democracy in America, for a very long time, has served as window dressing for authoritarianism. That showy window dressing is now beginning to fray and the people, those with any political sense (or, for that matter, can tell the difference between right and wrong), are either outraged or keep their mouths shut, as most people do during the reign of authoritarians, lest they become victims.

Case in point: Hillary Clinton’s email server, loaded up with classified documents, was easily hacked by a number of intelligence agencies in other countries. She will never be prosecuted. She is nothing short of sacrosanct to large numbers of Democrats, a top figure representing the corporate-banker dominated elite. If Democrats have their way, she may be the next president, never mind her thick ledger of war crimes during the especially violent Obama administration.

The state will no longer tolerate dissidence or demands of a change in policy (for instance, torturing and killing millions of people in foreign lands, then stealing their resources and privatizing everything from water to state services paid for by taxpayers).

The crack down on Trump supporters is only the beginning. If Democrats and their Republican allies continue to engage in political repression of opposing political organizations and parties, America will soon become a full-blown dictatorship. In fact, it is well on the way.

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