(08-10-2018, 10:09 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(08-08-2018, 04:28 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:I wonder who's face he's going to looking at/ worried about seeing in his rear view mirror within the next year or so?
allusion to Jurassic Park.
In a culture of corruption, as under Donald Trump (a shady businessman, so that should be adequate warning), something always sticks. In a culture of non-corruption, dishonest behavior sticks out, and people who have a choice in acting honorably or dishonorably usually make the right choice. Robert Mueller has been extremely busy, and a government that facilitates rogues gives him copious material.
I recognize that you would like to portray Robert Mueller as an American version of Andrei Vishinsky and Roland Freisler, respective legal hatchet-men of Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Even so you must remember that someone like Robert Mueller does not reach the prominence that he does except if he has plenty of easy targets. The people being prosecuted are mostly connected to the President, but that happens in a climate of corruption.
When Obama was President, someone like Mueller was going after mobsters, people for whom most of us have little sympathy. Mobsters of course can do few money-making activities that have any honor attached. Any racket is likely to offend someone reckless enough to call the cops or DA.
The Trump Administration is a racket. But don't you think that Robert Mueller will be getting a bit old for this fairly soon -- as in January 21, 2021, when we have a new President?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.