The One Party State

by Joshua Einstein- Sotomayor

The indictment of President Trump on (forgive the phrase) trumped up charges, is demonstrable proof Democrats seek to turn our country into a one party state. Not only did the Federal Election Commission not bring charges against President Trump for alleged campaign violations but Manhattan DA Bragg, who has indicted him, does not have the jurisdiction to do so.

Both the state statute of limitations on the accusation of paying a prostitute hidden hush money (a misdemeanor) has expired, and Bragg has failed to identify for the courts a felony attached to the allegation that would extend the time limitation.

The giant fishing-expedition-meets-persecution is meant to publicly crucify a presidential candidate, not because he did anything wrong, but because he won the 2016 Presidential election and the Democrats are afraid for 2024.
Since 2016, and during the Trump presidency, Democrats argued he was a Russian stooge, ignoring the fact that he re-opened access to American weapons for Eastern European nations previously closed by Obama. They ignored the fact that while Putin invaded Ukraine during both the Obama and Biden presidencies, Putin refrained from aggression targeting Ukraine during Trump’s.
They ignore that Clinton's campaign manufactured the disproven Steele Dossier, paid for by campaign money for which Clinton was found to have violated federal election law by the Federal Election Commission. The dossier-to-know-where was then laundered through the intelligence agencies into another trumped up investigation turning up zilch.

According to Democrats, if your name is Clinton you cannot only launder made-up paid for opposition “research” into a “investigation” by the Department of Justice, but you can use an unsecured laptop latter physically destroyed, for official and secret government work, while Secretary of State and face no legal repercussions.
According to Democrats, if your last name is Biden you can co-mingle monetary funds and bank accounts among family members elected to high office and those appointed to the boards of corporations receiving millions of dollars for work they have no experience nor qualifications in without a peep from the media.

According to the Democrats, Jeffery Epstein killed himself and the public does not have the right to see the client list of the deceased pimp of abused teenage prostitutes. Yet, if President Trump allegedly used an adult prostitute at some random time in the past, it’s vital to national security he be locked up despite there being no victim, the passing of the statute of limitations, and the lack of jurisdiction by Manhattan DA Bragg.
This is not to forget that until the discovery in Biden’s unsecured garage (shared with his drug addled son) of never de-classified documents from his time as VP, the Democrats were targeting Trump over pieces of paper. In fact, despite ongoing communications between Trump’s team, the executive branch, and the Secret Service, Democrats orchestrated a purposely televised armed raid to take documents President Trump had declassified and which were protected by Secret Service members in yet another act of public persecution theater.

After years of never ending efforts to delegitimize President Trump’s 2016 victory, Democrats (uncontented with the potential of a fair fight in 2024) are attempting to weaponize the (in)justice system.
Lest one think efforts to create a one party state are only Trump Derangement Syndrome, remember the Democrat failed efforts at overturning the Bush Jr. election, or of Obama's mocking then presidential candidate Romney (when he correctly identified Russia as an adversary and Obama retorted that "the 1980's called, they want their foreign policy back").

Whether the Democrat’s constant refrain (going back at least as far as Reagan), that whomever the Republican leader is they are bigoted, racist, ant-Semitic, xenophobic, sexist, etc.. or today's Democrats (who have opened a pandora's box of political prosecutions with their persecution of Trump), the goal remains the same - not to defeat, but to destroy their political opposition. That's what a politically party aspiring to be a one party state does and the opposite of a multi-party democratic republic. America deserves better than the one party state the Democrats want.

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If the NJGOP is to survive then the “spinning” must stop

Putting the best face on a defeat is the oldest spin in politics.  The practice is ancient…

Rather than spend time trying to convince people that defeat is really victory, learn from history and discard what failed and embrace a new message.  After Watergate, Republicans embraced the message of Reagan conservatism and came roaring back at the 1980 elections – taking both the White House and the Senate.  After Democrat Bill Clinton defeated the “kinder-gentler” GOP brand of George H.W. Bush, Republicans adopted the conservative Contract with America – ending 40 years of uninterrupted Democratic control of the House of Representatives and capturing the Senate.  The populist “Tea Party” message of 2010 saw Republicans gain 63 seats to take back control of the House.  In 2014, that message completed the takeover of Congress, gaining 9 Senate seats and another 13 House seats.  And in 2016, a populist Republican took the White House in an upset that caught the professional political class of both parties by surprise. 

Nationally, and at the state and local levels, Republicans need to embrace the setbacks of 2018 and learn from them.  These lessons are clear: 

(1) Money doesn’t replace message. 

(2) Technology is a means to convey a message, not a replacement for having a message. 

(3) In the era of Trump, trying to out-liberal the Democrats is a fool’s errand. 

(4) Turnout is key and that means registering every person who would likely vote Republican and then motivating them to vote.

(5) Your message should maximize your vote without turning off your base.  Better still, find a message that excites your base while adding to it.

At present, the man with the ideas – the man leading the charge to put New Jersey back on the right economic footing – the man standing in the way of the more crazier notions of Governor Murphy’s Democratic Socialism, is in fact not a Republican at all, but a Democrat.  Senate President Steve Sweeney is calling out the Governor, challenging him to debate their contrasting ideas. 

Republicans should be challenging Governor Murphy to debates, leading with ideas and a clear message that contrasts with Murphy’s Wall Street-style social activism.  And if they can’t manage to come up with ideas of their own, then they should at least be prepared to add their united voice in support of the man who has taken on the task of challenging Murphy’s crazier instincts.

Politically, New Jersey Republicans need a message, with fully fleshed out ideas and solutions.  There are people already at work on this.  The Garden State Initiative – run by state government veteran Regina Egea – is producing a solid product of facts and stats that could back up a message… if the political will is there.  It’s up to the folks who run campaigns and the party’s leadership to take the next step.

Politician Lobbyists straddle both parties

Too many voters persist in believing that the two political parties work in opposition to each other.  In fact, both are neo-liberal in their economic policies and both believe in crony capitalism.  The only difference may be which interests benefit from that crony capitalism. 

The Democrats fill the place of a traditional party of the Left -- a party of the poor and working class.  The Republicans play the role of a party of Middle Class conservatism -- of small business and traditional values.  In fact, the Democrats have worked to make the poor more dependent on politicians and have sided with big business to support immigration policies to drive down the value of labor, while supporting trade policies that have driven high-paying manufacturing jobs overseas.  For their part, the Republicans side with big corporations and wealthy special interests to offer tepid opposition to a rabidly commercial agenda set on destroying local businesses and imposing a global set of standards on both economic and human relationships.

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney summed it up when -- in the midst of an economic downturn, high unemployment and underemployment, no property tax relief, mass foreclosures, homelessness, debt, record poverty, and children going hungry -- he declared that same-sex marriage was the state's "top priority" and the most important thing on the legislative agenda.  Why not?  Billionaires like Paul Singer and Tim Gill were funding the project.  It was important to them and they have the money to push an issue to the front of the line. 

A recent Princeton University study nailed it when it reported that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

Now you know why all those referenda voting down same-sex marriage meant jack dick.  Money uber alles.  Simply put, the citizen and his or her vote simply don't matter to the critters who run our legislative bodies.   

Witness the rise of the lobby/public relations/political consulting entity -- often an arm of a law firm -- that employs both Democrats and Republicans.  Gone are the days of simply relying on campaign contributions to make a legislator sweet.  Now a lobbyist is likely to be the party chairman of a county or municipality -- somebody who can knock a legislator off the party "line" in the primary or find a popular mayor to run against him. 

And forget the idea that Democrat lobbyists only lobby for "Democrat" issues and Republicans for "Republican" issues.  They lobby for whomever it is that pays them and simply use their party offices to beat legislators into voting the way the rich corporations or interests who pay want them to vote.  There was a long line of Republicans taking money to lobby for same-sex marriage.  Republicans have trousered George Soros' money and have lobbied for everything from corporate crony solar projects to raising taxes.

Republican voters are beginning to figure out that their party's establishment doesn't care what they think and uses their votes to get hired by people who do not have their interests in mind.  Social conservatives got the message first.  That's why we had historically low turnout in New Jersey in last year's Assembly races.  The Trump phenomenon -- which began after he made a no nonsense comment about the supposedly taboo subject of illegal immigration -- is further evidence that the old b.s. no longer works.

The Reagan-era alliance between the social conservative and Chamber of Commerce wings of the GOP has gone off the rails.  For years working class social conservatives voted against their economic self-interests for candidates who promised to respect their traditional values, only to watch those candidates do the bidding of the rich who fund their campaigns and piss on every traditional value.

Why should social conservatives vote to keep the taxes of a corporation like Johnson & Johnson low, when that corporation takes the money it saves and uses it to make propaganda media to push same-sex marriage or helps to underwrite the operations of Planned Parenthood.  A year ago, more than 100 of the richest and most powerful corporations signed an amicus brief in Obergefell v. Hodges in support of same-sex marriage and in direct opposition to much of the world's major religions.  Among those to codify this global corporate position on faith and morals was Johnson & Johnson. 

A New Jersey business organization that relies on Republicans elected with social conservative votes to support its agenda, rewarded this loyalty by inviting the former president of Planned Parenthood to be the keynote speaker at an event sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.  Will social conservatives be asked by this business group to support less regulation for Johnson & Johnson, now that it has lost a court battle that disclosed its callous disregard for women and children who use its products? 

When a resolution is proposed in the Legislature, calling for the condemnation of Johnson & Johnson's corporate leadership for failing to warn women that its talc-based products could cause cancer, will so-called women's advocates like Senator Loretta "Mother Roach" Weinberg sign on?  Will Senator Sweeney?  After all, these corporate monsters knew as far back as the 1980's that their products caused cancer but they were so addicted to profits that the greedy pigs kept selling it and kept quiet about the cancer.   

Wow, doesn't support for same-sex marriage and Planned Parenthood mean that you are "progressive," that you're one of the so-called "good-guys"?  Obviously not.  The same corporation that makes fashion statements in support of "LGBT rights" and "women's reproductive rights" was happy to expose women and children to the possibility of slow, painful, horrible deaths in order to keep its profits high.  Corporate fashion statements are a diversion, a scam. Money uber alles.