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Good article, Ken. I don't understand why Trump was able to remain free and unencumbered from 1/6/21 until early 2023. I don't understand why Jack Smith wasn't appointed in 2021. I do agree that we have our very own oligarchy and like all such entities they are rotten to the core. Like Bezos and Musk they are so greedy and self centered they cannot see beyond their own egos. Like you, I hope Trump goes to trial in May 2024, I hope Jack Smith gets an indictment on the January 6 charges. I hope Fani Willis is allowed to proceed with her indictment of Trump in Georgia. The best chance we have of convicting Trump is in DC with the insurrection (treason) charge. Trying ti get a jury impaneled in Florida or Georgia may be the bridge too far. Certainly all southerners are not MAGA followers, many in the South are intelligent thoughtful people, but they are not the ones Trump's attorneys want to hear the case against him. And we know he is going to try as many delaying tactics as possible to stretch beyond the election. I have NO faith in States like Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee to conduct fair and honest elections. I just hope I'm wrong. As to the Democrats and Democracy, we do have a few incumbents who claim they will not take a nickle from PACs, that's good, but how about direct from the horses ass to their bank accounts. I hope we win and win big in 2024, then all of us capable of doing so need to rattle the cage of every Democratic legislator to write and pass a bill overturning Citizen's United and get the billions of dollars out of elections. Other wise we might as well hand the reins of government to the oligarchs and be done with it.

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