Scapegoating & Spending Threatens Democracy?

If one wants to undermine “democracy” isn’t it best to weaponize fed agencies against whiners & distract the rabble with circuses? As WSJ bemoans both in op eds & notes “US Already Soaks the Rich,” isn’t real problem endless spending, not taxes?

Enough has been written about the tsunami of civil & criminal cases against ex-President Trump, they speak for their weaponizing self. And, is there any need to again mention how our national debt is now over $31 trillion & mounting by billions every day, while President Biden’s latest proposed $7.3 Trillion budget would break all the old spending records? The WSJ notes Joe’s new budget has still more largess for everyone EXCEPT the military, which gets a 3% increase that doesn’t match the past year’s inflation. Doesn’t somebody have to be printing money to pay for all this? And, in order to justify this ongoing spending spree, doesn’t somebody have to be the scapegoat? If it’s not the religious, race, ethnic, gender or sexual preferences card being played by our politicians, it is the “rich,” even though the WSJ reminds that the top 1% in 2021 “paid 45.8% of income taxes, up from 33.2% in 2001.”

Not to play the violin for the rich elites & hoi polloi among us. But, isn’t it the constant scapegoating that’s most dangerous to us all … and to our democracy?

Davd Soul