The current situation in England is amusing from afar even though it is frightening up close. One of the key reasons is the parallels it has with our current administration.
The British Parliament just passed a law that made it illegal to go beyond the October 31st Brexit deadline without the Prime Minister first going to Brussels to ask for a three month extension. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said he wouldn’t do it. If he defies the laws there might be some judicial hand-slapping and gnashing of teeth, but Britain would be out of the EU. You couldn’t do what would be fair and just, there is no capital punishment in Britain.
The Trump administration, and Donald Trump himself, is headed down the road of breaking the law with impunity on a daily basis. The one difference is that the British Parliament is willing to take action, regardless of the party, whereas the Republican Party would rather ignore Trump’s illegalities, and thereby sanction them, demonstrating the in-your-face lack of ethical values and, of course, backbone and that we normally ascribe to our leaders.
But, voters won’t forget.
The one thing we know about government is that when the limits are exceeded, there is no going back.
If money can be siphoned off for illegal purposes, like a border wall, then military money can be siphoned off for global warming, replenishing Medicare, and establishing abortion centers throughout the South.
Maybe, this isn’t such a bad thing after all.