Enough was not said about the attempted corruption of the Arizona GOP chair, Jeff DeWitt, who offered Kari Lake a meaningless corporate job in trade to get out of the Senate race.  I can tell you that this kind of bribe is not unique and, unfortunately, comes with the cost of self-government.  If the people involved are not very good, of a high-minded intellect, then abuses of this kind will be all too easy.  And what was alarming about this case was that it was all too common.  It’s happening all the time, only, in this case, it’s Kari Lake, not some average Joe easily seduced by the glitter of the rich and powerful.  For DeWitt to tell Kari Lake that powerful people wanted her out of the Senate race, to put fear into her, and then offer her some cushy job that he somehow had the power to obtain for her says so much about what’s wrong with the world.  And this is why we want people now who are independently wealthy and have achieved fame without some boot-licking handout.  That is certainly the appeal of President Trump no matter what they throw at him.  People know what the problem is, and it is people like this GOP chair, Jeff DeWitt, who are too in love with their power and will abuse it for lots of the wrong reasons.  Think of how many people out there who act just like Jeff DeWitt.  I can think of dozens and dozens; I’ve seen it happen up close before, so this isn’t a unique case.  It’s pretty standard, and our political systems are filled with these kinds of people or people who take the bait and never get into politics because they were bought off in the same way Kari Lake was targeted.

This story fell off the front page of the news because so many people are doing just as wrong at every level, and it made people feel guilty about their role in it.  This is precisely why people in our senate do not report to the American people, that people like Mitch McConnell have been in leadership.  That’s why they think they can give us that ridiculous border bill to pass only to legalize the many crimes of the past.  They put watered-down corrupt nobodies into these jobs, then act like their hands are tied when hard votes come along.  But they tainted the effort by keeping strong reformers out of Congress and the Senate with this lobbying from the chairperson positions.  We just had a case like this in Lakota where a school board president was having brand damage.  We told the party not to support her for the brand’s health since we are all Republicans and want the party to do well with the public and give them good options they were excited to vote for.  No, they thought they knew best and put this person up anyway, and told everyone to hold their nose and support her anyway, which people didn’t.  And she lost.  As it turned out, the law firms that supported her financially liked having someone they could control in office. Many people were convinced they were losing control of some of these elected representatives.  They thought they had a right to purchase influence in these elected offices and, when pressed, admit to it.  “Remember who elected you, you owe me.”  When what we should be doing is putting the right people in these jobs, not losers easily controlled by corrupt people who think they have the right to use their money to buy influence that the rest of the voting public doesn’t get. 

If you understand why so many people don’t want President Trump back in the White House and why they wanted to get rid of him in the first place, it was because he couldn’t be bought. He already had all the money he needed in the world and was applying that freedom to the office of President. DeWitt was representing the corporate power class that wanted to control the Senate, and they didn’t wish to get Kari Lake in the way. We all know that President Trump could have done even more during his first term if he didn’t have losers like McConnell working against him, and Paul Ryan, Mittens Romney, and that loser John McCain—Mr. Progressive, who might as well have been the Barack Obama of the Republican Party. What we call the Deep State are these types of corrupt people who gain power and wealth in life and want to then control the people in government to their benefit. If other influential people in government resist them, they lose power and control, making them very unhappy. At the core of much of the drama and trouble applied toward President Trump, it has been this Deep State of corrupt people always hiding in the background who use people like Jeff DeWitt to do their evil work. And the offer to give Kari some worthless corporate job and riches of who knows what, to stay out of a race so these same people could control a government for the people, by the people. If that government is selected in such a terrible way, no wonder it’s all screwed up.

It is human nature to abuse power because residing behind corrupt people is a nature toward laziness they try desperately to hide. They are attracted to government power because they want to abuse other people, but they are too lazy to attack people they perceive to be stronger than them or more intelligent. They shield themselves from such competition in the free and open marketplace by using the power of government, of group behavior, to keep themselves protected from the competent and the truly good. That’s how we have ended up with so many bums and slugs in government by this process. And it’s why so many of these same kinds of power players hate the MAGA movement. Joe Biden was put in place for this reason: he is too stupid and compromised to say no to anybody. So, of course, they want him in the Executive Branch. He will say and do anything they want, and it shows in our government the terrible management of America’s needs and resources. And when we put forth good people to run, just as I mentioned in that local issue with the school board, they push them away and do whatever they can to assassinate them because what they are protecting is their control over that government entity by putting stupid and corrupt people in these positions, then pretending like its some real battle with Democrats, when the real fight is between corporate manipulations over self-government for their preservation from the will of the people governed. The belief is that their money and power can do what they don’t dare to do themselves: be a good person, work hard, and bring their skills to the needs of the governed. Where voters can elect good representation to do their business, these corrupt people don’t want good business done; they want business done that panders to them and the power they desire over other people. That they couldn’t otherwise have unless they could weaponize the government to sustain their lazy lifestyles and feelings of deep insecurity.

Rich Hoffman

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