This is the most consequential election of my lifetime.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/11/this-is-most-consequential-election-of.html

"So what happens if the President of the United States gets a speeding ticket?"

Though it has been a while, I can remember, in high school history and government classes, asking the impossible, most extreme scenario questions about government, the Constitution and government leaders, and having teachers reassure us that the extremes were possible because the Constitution is law that limits the extent and power of government, but that they were very unlikely because the safeguard was always the voter and the ballot box, and the fact that the government can be changed by the people over a very short period of time, if they so choose.

Of course, the President does not drive, which prevents his getting a speeding ticket. But there was never a real answer about what would happen if a President committed a crime, because the assumption was that a President would be someone with the kind of integrity not to have to worry about it.

And now, in just a few short years, as I approach the end of my educational career, we are facing an election in which one of the candidates has a criminal record, had a record of fraud, corruption and both business and moral bankruptcy long before he ever ran for office, and when he finally succeeded in getting elected, incited a riot to attempt to overturn an election, committed crimes on his way out like stealing classified documents, and in spite of all of that, was nominated by a major political party and is running again, this time with the goal of achieving immunity granted by a corrupt and paid-off Supreme Court, three of whose justices he appointed himself.

It's the American nightmare no one ever imagined.