To Kill A Mockingbird, Or A Political Opponent

In the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird," a Black man, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white woman. He is found guilty, placed into prison, and killed a short time later by prison guards for trying to flee. The movie was based on a book of the same name written by Harper Lee and published in 1960. It was required reading in many schools for years. I hope it still is. When I was a middle school student in the seventies, this was one of the books I actually read and remembered because of the incredible injustice and tragic ending. However, what I don’t recall ever being discussed was the commonality in the political affiliation of the players coalescing around the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and killing of Mr. Robinson.

What I did not learn in school is that the accuser, their family, the officers that arrested Mr. Robinson, the prosecutor, the judge, the jury, and the people in attendance on the first floor of the courtroom for the daily trials were likely all Democrats. Blacks were not allowed to sit on the first floor of the courtroom, so they were in the balcony, and were probably all Republicans. In addition, the warden running the prison, and the guards that shot and killed Tom Robinson for allegedly trying to flee (a man very likely to eventually win his case and be freed on appeal) were also all Democrats.

One political party owning a significant portion of the levers of power is always ripe for abuse, and this is especially true of the Democrat Party, which is unashamed and often unencumbered in their use and abuse of power: to keep it, reward their allies, and punish their enemies. Any human being with an innate desire to control the behaviors of others and bend them to their will is naturally drawn to the aphrodisiac of the Democrat Party. And that is what we see today, in places like New York City and Washington D.C., where the prosecutors, the judges, the bureaucrats, and nearly 90% of the people registered to vote are Democrats. Just like Blacks in the South would never reach the positions of power to be judges or prosecutors, heck the supporters of Tom Robinson couldn’t even come down to the first floor of the courthouse to sit and watch the trial, a non-Democrat will have an extremely difficult time in NYC or D.C., and will rarely be allowed anywhere near the necessary leadership positions in Democrat-controlled institutions.

Fast forward to today and this is what we have in the NYC trials of President Donald J. Trump. We have accusers and their family and friends, prosecutors and their family and friends, the judges and their family and friends, the jury pool and their family and friends, the media covering the cases and their family and friends: nearly all Democrats. Of course, there are many differences between these targets of Democrat hatred and rage. President Trump is white and Mr. Robinson is black. But more importantly, Trump is a man of means and has power to fight back and Robinson had none. Therefore, Robinson was defamed, convicted, and killed with relative ease, while Trump is proving to be a more difficult foe. But the brazen abuse of power is the same. Perhaps all people, and Black people specifically based on the history of abuses they’ve faced, intuitively see and understand the tyrannical nature of the behavior against Trump, the injustice of it all, and that is the reason more than any other why some are moving towards him.

As for Mr. Robinson, during his time, there were many Southerners living between the end of the Civil War and 1964 that were not racists but feared for their livelihoods and their family if they did not support the anti-black leaders and tyrants of the Democrat Party. For example, if you owned a restaurant in Selma and had no issue serving black people and welcomed them into your restaurant, what would happen? Whites would stop coming to your restaurant, some due to their personal racism but others due to fear of the consequences from Democrats and their KKK. As the owner you’d get canceled, but so would those that supported you. Don’t think for a moment cancel culture started with today’s social media. If you continued on principle, you would go out of business. If you apologized profusely, you’d probably still go out of business. There could also be violence against you and your family with the ultimate goal being a public crucifixion as a message to others: sympathizers and traitors to their race will be punished more severely than any black person. Again, it’s not about you, this is how corrupt leaders with their hands on all the levers of power control people.

And what do the powerful elite want today? They want Trump gone. They want him convicted, and so does most of the community where he is being tried. Democrat judge, prosecutor, jury, neighbors, media: they are everywhere. No juror could go back to their neighborhood and face their peers if they found Tom Robinson or Donald J. Trump not guilty. Will they be able to keep their job? Will they be safe? Will the media dox them? A not-guilty verdict will put tremendous pressure on their lives. It is simply too dangerous, and the jurors are certainly wise enough to know that. If any of them were unaware, it will surely be discussed during deliberations, and they likely heard an earful when they went home for a full week waiting for the closing arguments.

The parallels drawn between the injustices faced by Tom Robinson in "To Kill a Mockingbird" and the political targeting of President Donald J. Trump are just two examples highlighting the continuation of a historical pattern of power abuse within the Democrat Party, which I will follow-up on from time to time here. Tom Robinson wasn’t really being punished by the local Democrat elite for sexually assaulting a white-woman, it was really to maintain the status quo of a racial hierarchy and power. Trump is being punished not for falsely recording business transactions, election interference, inciting a riot, or holding classified documents, he is being attacked by Democrats because he is disrupting the plans of the globalist elite that fund their campaigns. Politicians that spend millions of dollars to win a job that pays about $200K per year owe a lot of favors.

Meanwhile, Trump is a billionare but he’s like that restaurant owner who had the audacity to stand up for what’s morally right, so he is a traitor to the elite, and must face a public crucifixion. Like Tom Robinson, it is perhaps inevitable Trump will be convicted, jailed, and possibly killed by the Democrats not just because the powerful do not want him in office again, but because they must send a message to dissuade any other political outsiders from seeking power for themselves vice working the traditional behind-the-scenes-manipulation of our political leaders. Of course, similar to Mr. Robinson, if Trump is found guilty he is likely to win on appeal, and though the political and mainstrean media elite would prefer Trump suffer an outcome equivalent to Mr. Robinson they at least need a felony conviction hanging over his head before Election Day, no matter how unfair or corrupt.

These examples serve as stark reminders of the dangers posed by unchecked power and single Party rule. We are in dangerous times today, and though it has a lot to do with the abuses of power by the totalitarians that gravitate to the Democrat Party, it’s also because the Republican Party has far too many weaklings and cowards standing idle by…which I will also follow-up on in the future.