The President of all the people?

The current stand off out west is very interesting for a lot of reasons. It is people taking things into their own hands and protesting injustice. In this case it was the onerous mandatory minimum prison sentence given to some ranchers who were convicted of arson for setting a fire on their own land that moved over to government land. They had already been in jail but are being sent back due to an appeals court ruling that said they have to spend five years due to the mandatory minimum sentencing law. The government is abiding by the letter of the law and sending the Hammonds to jail.

Now a group of activist lend by the Bundy's have occupied a government building. They have guns. They carry guns. That is what they do out West. They have open carry. The liberals and the media are shitting their pants. They are not worried about savages raping and pillaging a CVS for drugs but white people with guns scare the shit out of them.

There is one simple way to defuse the situation without blood shed. Obama could just pardon the Hammonds. He has made a big deal about how we have to change the Criminal Justice system. Stop using mandatory minimums that lead to unjust and onerous sentences. Of course he is only worried about Drug Dealers and Muslims. You know people like him. Or like him in his younger days. So there is no way he is going to give white westerners a pardon. Even if it is in his interest to defuse a potentially deadly situation without losing face. He can do it and use it to make his point about reforming sentencing and take an argument away from the militia types.

But Obama will not do that. Because he is not the President of all the people. Just some of the people. the people who look like him. Who think like him.

That is why Trump will become President. Watch and see.