Paramount to Treason

 In the waning days of the current administration, we are seeing an unprecedented attempt to sabotage the incoming administration, to hamstring their ability to help people and businesses out of their current predicaments and put them in a position where we will have a stalemate in congress once again, leading to some very severe braganing - or a do nothing period until congress can be freed up.

Emergency money for covid is being pulled back and put out of the public reach. Court appointments, many very questionable, passed and environmental regulations torn down, without the benefit of review or study. Much, much more.

This is not just normal politics. This is paramount to treason. When people act against the common good of the citizenry - it is what it amounts to. Because in a Democracy the government is to act on behalf of all of the population.

On top of this, the President wants to make sure the upcoming administration takes no credit for lifting the country out of the situation, even though it has brought more to the everyman’s fight in a few days than the administration has brought over the past year. 

Yes, the current administration engaged big pharma on the vaccine. After months of saying this was nothing to worry about. After not only dismissing evolving public health policies, but fighting against them and allowing the virus to kick into high gear. 266,000 dead in the USA. 1.45 million in the world. We have 4% of the world's population and over 15% of the casualties.

If this was a situation where incompetent management was the worst of this it might be hard to call it out as something else. But it goes beyond incompetence (although there is plenty of that).

The active lying, the move of policy to keep infection and death toll figures from the public and public health officials, to silence those officials, the political fight against public health policies and trying to manipulate vaccine process to produce a product to influence the election, shaking public confidence and undermining policy that protects the population, rather than supporting the process - using military money to fund it and go around congress, no national policy, pushing it onto the states, threatening Democratic run states with no funding or withholding of resources, to slow the post election transition and the continuation of a hate mantra that works to make the incoming administration less effective - and on, almost ad infinitum.

These are all acts against the public good and an attempt to use it to make political hay and hate. Not only does it need to be stopped, but the people responsible held accountable and law and regulation passed so it cannot happen again.

If you are defending the current administration, please step back and look at what is being done. You are wrong. It’s not just politics. It’s inhumane and unethical.

Actively sabotaging the public good for private and political gain is not acceptable. It cannot be, else it is what we will have in power going forward. We must reform in order to continue democracy by the people, for the people.