Why is it taking so much time to bring Trump to court?

[David Horn]

(06-16-2021, 12:55 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(06-16-2021, 12:09 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(06-16-2021, 09:15 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-15-2021, 05:32 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(06-15-2021, 03:12 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: In the days following the Capitol Putsch, media reported Trump will be prosecuted in Georgia for attempting to change the election results in Georgia: Prosecute Donald Trump. His Georgia call is enough evidence - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

So what's going on with this issue?

Georgia and the LA times might as well be in different countries, for how much they understand each other.

I would agree that large swaths of Georgia and LA are in different countries, but Atlanta and LA aren't that different.

Both states are divided.  It wasn't that long ago that CA was a red state.  Both have large cities and large rural areas.  It is just that now Atlanta and other urban areas are beginning to turn Georgia blue.  The two states illustrate as well as anything the problem of dividing America geographically.  

The problem seems to be that large parts of rural red America seem to prefer racism to democracy.  Before the George Floyd killings, they had a decisive enough advantage to hold the country.  It was racist organizations that put a violent edge to the January 6 insurrection.  It was people fed up with racist organized murder that gave Biden the decisive edge to win the 2020 election.  I do not see the rural racist folk getting hold of the elections again.  They are making a game of it still, but the court cases are in limbo.  I don't see the Big Lie holding us in limbo indefinitely.

I hope you are right. Trump only lost by 43,000 votes, and I am not sure about the 2022 midterms either. Democrats need to win them if there is to be timely and effective reforms made during the decade in which it is time to make them. I hope they bring Trump to Court before the midterms. It should not be cause for delay.

It's a worldwide miasma that's gripping democracies everywhere.  Far too many people see their chance to succeed evaporating, and they blame the easiest targets: the poor and powerless. Here it's race.  In other countries it's religion or ethnicity. In all countries it's the modern capitalist system.  

Yes, there are more Blues than Reds, but the Reds feel under siege.  Expect every dirty trick in the book -- and some not written.  Just look elsewhere for clues on just how far this can go.  The large swaths of social conservatives see this time as existential.  I doubt the progressives are as motivated.  

I  agree that 2022 will tell the tale.  Will the miscreants in the GOP succeed in stealing (yes, that's the right word) elections by then?  They are certainly trying.  If stasis prevents Federal legislation to overturn most of the meddling, then assume 2024 will be crisis in brief.