Play by the rules, most of us have heard those four words ever since we started kindergarten, or perhaps if we were lucky enough to grow up in a neighborhood where plenty of kids played outside. The rules, were the boundaries by which we could compete fairly, and the rules were also the hands of a boggy man who would reach out and grab you if you broke them. It was simple, we thought, as kids, and as kids most often, WE, using one voice could chastise the breaker of the rules, not out of personal anger, but out of fact. This IS the game, this IS how you play it, this IS how you get kicked out if you ignore, THE RULES.
American’s thought we were playing by the rules (albeit, rules stretched by unconstitutional gerrymandering/illegal voter restrictions/and the sudden emergence of dark money and Corporations becoming People) as we headed to the voting booths, in earnest doing our democratic duties and electing leadership. We thought the rules might be a little shaky, but still, in some oblivious observation, we counted on the rules to keep America almost honest and almost fair. As most of us played by the rules, it has become clearer and clearer that Trump, the Trump Campaign, the leadership of the GOP had another set of secret rules by which they played, all motivated by the ex KGB spy master Vladimir Putin. The obvious clue to understanding that rules were being broken by the Republicans were three fold…the first, was that the Russians not only hacked the DNC, but they also admitted to hacking the RNC, imagine the information collected regarding the RNC, and just how much leverage Putin and his hackers had dangling over the heads of the GOP leadership…the second was the amazing amount of business dealings the Trump family had with the Russian oligarchs, who under the Putin dictatorship, might be wealthy Russians, but they too had to pay the Piper named Putin…and this, the ever amazing prediction of the future by Trump Campaign talking heads and even trump himself regarding some surprising news that just might come forward regarding Hillary and her campaign.
So here we are September 15, 2017, and somehow the American public is told to STILL play by the rules, the same rules which have been stomped on, kicked, shredded, voided, and violated by Trump, his family, his Cabinet members, and of course the leadership of both the Republican majority in the House and Senate. I am tired of playing by the rules when the rules seem only to adhere to my life, my future, my equality, my freedoms. When do we as Americans STOP the bullshit of pretending Trump and many of the Republicans election into office was and IS legitimate. When will we finally find out backbone and make EVERYONE play by the rules?
