Condemnation

Those who don’t remember history are condemned to repeat it.

– George Santayana

History is being repeated with the indictment of President Trump.

The United States is now condemned to a second Civil War.  The ultimate result will be the extermination of the Democratic Party.

To put this in a historic context I’ll give three examples.

1. In the final days of the Roman Republic there were two political parties.  The Optimates and The Populares.  The Optimates indicted Gaius Julius Caesar, a Populare, for several capital crimes.  The result was a civil war where the Optimates were exterminated.

2. The actions of General Loan during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam.  The situation on this day in Saigon was pure chaos and no one could have been sure that there would be a functioning government on the next day.  Into this situation a Viet Cong terrorist had been captured after he murdered the family of a National Police officer. General Loan as the commander of the National Police had no idea if the terrorist could ever be properly prosecuted and punished for his actions.  So in the absence of a clearly functional authority he personally carried out the judgment and execution of the murderer.

3. In Skidmore, Missouri the career criminal Ken Rex McElroy abused the legal system to cover his reign of terror.  In the absence of a functional government some citizens took matters into their own hands.  McElroy was killed in broad daylight.  None of the shooters have spoken to this day.