Second, Trump’s biggest problem is himself. His reputation for being a poor payer is the first obstacle. He’s a loose cannon as a client. He in his own way is a more polished Charlie Manson. And finally, there’s an ever growing list of barristers that have faced trouble such as loss of license because of false statements to the court or engaging in criminal activity while representing him.
Honestly, if I were asked, I’d decline.
What I am going to say, I hope you won't take this as an insult, because it is in no way meant as that. I genuinely believe you either haven't even thought this out, or are completely innocent of what is in store if we don't stop this slide towards tyranny.
The fact this this person happens to be connected to a lightning rod like Donald Trump is of absolutely zero importance in this bigger issue. And that fact that he may or may not be a nutjob also has no bearing on this specific issue. You could look at any number of people who have been persecuted specifically due to their association with Trump, and there are many.
You might even make that point for every person languishing unconstitutionally in a jail (or had the government performing a rectal exam on them) who did nothing worse on January 6th, than walk around inside the Capitol Building after they were deliberately let in. We see many people, including some on this very thread, who said those people had it coming to them for the heinous crime of practicing their 1st Amendment rights.
In that light, it is also worthwhile to keep in mind the parents who have attracted the notice of the various government entities as a result of their speaking out at school meetings, or other everyday people who have been selected for IRS audits because of their political leanings, just to name a few.
I include others from this thread on this, because that irrational hope "I am too small to notice" is in the mind of every human being, however strongly or faintly, including myself and must be overcome in the face of tyranny. We must absolutely crush that fig leaf of faux comfort.
I want you to reflect on what you said in your post, that the predations of a tyrannical government won't be brought to bear on you because you are "too small potatoes".
You need to get educated on what Communists (and totalitarians of all stripes) have done and will absolutely do. There is no damn such thing as "too small potatoes". Every damn person is enough to attract the attention of the goverment.
Seriously-Communist China murdered 40-120 million of its own people since they took over power in 1949. That alone should tell you that, to a totalitarian government, there is no citizen too insignificant to attract their attention.
Granted, you may put your head down and think you are safe, you are following their restrictions and orders to you, being a "good citizen" under the confines of their tyranny.
Do you think that is going to save you? And really-do you want to live that way?
You need to read Solzhenitsyn's ,Gulag Archipelago and take it to heart, as well as Orwell's 1984. Though fictional, Orwell's 1984 is every bit as accurate as Solhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago in its descriptions of tyrannical government.
Do you know what Solzhenitsyn said was the most common thing, when shopkeepers, petty bureaucrats, ditch diggers, and janitors said when they got the knock on the door at 3 AM, and began their journey into the Gulag Archipelago, to interrogation, torture, forced labor, starvation, and death?
They uniformly said, in genuine puzzlement through their sleep fogged brains as they faced the guards there to take them away from their families forever: "What? Arrested? Who, me? What for?"
Yes. "Who, me? What for?"
Many of these were people that kept their heads down, followed orders, did what they were told, got up every day to toil at menial labor for low wages that couldn't purchase any products anyway, and fully followed the orders of the government. They even guarded their own speech and facial expressions, even to their own families, as to not reveal to anyone watching that they might disagree with or resent the intrusion or treatment by a tyrannical government.
They were "model citizens".
And yet, the knock came on the door, and there they stood open-mouthed, blinking in their confusion and sleepiness, and saying "Who, me? What for?"
And that makes Solzhenitsyn's quote all the more pungent:
"...And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation...We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward..."
I apologize if this sounds harsh or combatative, but you need to wake up. The majority of Americans do. I am not saying you are unintelligent, uneducated, or stupid, but if you say that you are safe because you are too small, you honestly either have to be uninformed, or one or all of the alternative explanations, unintelligent, uneducated, or stupid. There isn't any middle ground.
And one more thing-if you think that what happened in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Communist China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba (and any other number of murderous tyrannical governments) can't happen here because of our history, Constitution, or simple "American Exceptionalism", you are not only wrong, but insanely wrong.
It is those positive things like our history, Constitution, and "American Exceptionalism" that will both enable malignant forces to obtain control of this country (they already have) and also will make possible the spectre of the most frightening tyranny in the history of Man up to this point. We will, as Winston Churchill once postulated, descend into "the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."
Honestly, FRiend, this is for your own good, you need to take a look at history, and then look around you with open eyes. I apologize if this sounds harsh, but when you said you were too unimportant to be ground under the thumb of a tyrannical government, you must keep in mind that is the echoing refrain from the mouth of every subjugated human who has suffered under the unwanted attentions of a tyrannical government.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CITIZEN TOO INSIGNIFICANT TO ESCAPE THE PREDATIONS OF A TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT.
“He in his own way is a more polished Charlie Manson.”
Do your folks let you out at night?