DiscoGary wrote:
The primary purpose of the Cohen raid was to make sure that no one outside the Establishment ever challenges those in power again. The message is "If you challenge us, and win, then you LOSE, because we will ignore ALL laws in our efforts to destroy you, your family, your businesses, and your supporters ... and no one will help you because we are the government, we make the laws, and we decide which ones to follow, and we will win. Don't anyone ever think about trying this again!"
That message has already been sent, and I'm sure it has already been received by many people who otherwise might have tried to enter politics. This has done a HUGE amount of damage to our democracy and our country and it can't be fixed. There's a reason why banana republics, once corrupted, are so hard to reform ... because everyone lives in fear of what the government will do to them if they step up to set things right. This is a big step toward becoming a banana republic. No one should want this.
I'll say this again:
honestly, sincerely, you aren't well informed on this.
you should do more reading of diverse mainstream news to better understand how all this works.
I mean what you wrote is so off target and useless that it's not worth discussing since you haven't taken any time to understand what is happening.