American Politics: a perception

I have said before that my awakening to world politics was the Iran Iraq war, but other things were occurring at that time too.  The 40th president of the United States was elected at that time too.  He was an actor, which was thought to be odd at the time, I had not seen any of his movies and he had been retired from movie making all of my life, but he was an actor.  A lot of today's politics is said to come from his time.  He gave the church more powers and set the path for the country to become a theocracy.  He also nearly started WWIII, and he oversaw the fall of the 'Evil Empire' of the Soviet Union.  He saw the Berlin Wall come down too.  He was the first President who had dementia in office.  He was shot, someone tried to kill him.  And he started the Star Wars initiative, trying to arm space; that is what almost started WWIII.  And he had no qualifications to hold the office of president; he was an actor.  Just looked him up, he was also the governor of California for eight years, probably the reason why I never saw him act.   

He was also the first president to tie the Republican party to religion and that also tied the political system to a partisan system.  It was always a partisan system, there were usually only two choices us and them, but in his years it started to go down the road of this is a good policy if we do it, but if they do it, it is a bad policy.  For an example, when the President had people break in to the oppositions head quarters in the 70s, he resigned because his own supporters thought he did a bad thing.

Fast forward to today, we, the world, has an American President that is allowed to do illegal acts every day because the opposition knows that it can pass censure on him because the President's Party controls one of the two houses in government, and they know that that party will shut down any bill that casts their president, their party in a poor light.  

The Democratic Party did something four years ago, and the Republican Party decried it and pronounced it as "Evil", but now, circumstances are different; they can do the same thing except ten times worse and it is a good thing, Holy even.  It is not just one thing, it is everything.  Having extra marital affairs, imprisoning children, wearing a tan suit, loading the supreme court with morally questionable people, more and more and more.  Too many to count too much that it is all rolling in to one.  

But the big one is Obstruction of Justice, in other words getting involved in court cases or legal proceedings to influence the decisions.   

Using the office to personally enrich himself.

Hypocrisy.  I know, everyone thinks that this is a defining trait for all politicians, but really that is unfair.  In this case I mean instances where the president rails against things that he has personally taken advantage of multiple times.  

Changing the language.  Fake news: news that you don't agree with is fake, except fake literally means untrue, not real.  

Illegal Immigrants as a synonym for refugees or asylum seekers: quite literally the opposite meaning refugees and asylum seekers are people who would rather have stayed in their own country but can't and still live, they are not immigrants in the traditional sense, and it is completely legal to seek asylum.  The problem as I see it is these people are poor and have no political power, which is part of e reason why they are refugees, if they were wealthy or had power in their own countries they would not have to flee.  The other thing is he has fixed the idea that refugees are all criminals.  When ever the President talks about refugees, he never says refugees by-the-way, he says illegal and criminals instead.  He refused refugees from Hurricane Dorian, because he said they were criminals.  Criminals who had lost their homes and families in a storm and were trying to find a place to stay until they could rebuild and sought the closest country to them.

Hinting that it is time for the US to become a dictatorship.  

And that last one is it, the most troubling thing.  In 2016 when the election was called, Trump had a speech prepared how Hillary had used illegal means to win the election, had rigged the election, but he won and had to make up a new speech. 

This time, after he has disenfranchised the vote from so many people, if he loses, he may not choose to accept the results.  He may call on his supporters to rise up.  And if they do,there will be war.  

Speaking of war.  Recent wars where the US was involved in: the break up of Yugoslavia, Syrian civil war, the Libyan Civil war were during the Democratic Party, they were all coalition wars or UN wars.  The Persian gulf war, the invasion of Somalia, the invasion of Afghanistan, the US-Iraq war, possibly the US-Iran war (it looks likely) all were republican administration wars.

This would not matter as much to me except that it appears that Canada is getting dragged into a similar partisanship in its politics too.  And I fear it, dread it.