Given that we live in a time of relative peace i.e. no war, for many they are the common enemy in which to cast all their fears and anxieties.

The many that vote for them have no better alternative. They don't care for the politician, they are seeking to create radical change to a broken political and economic system by creating a shock imbalance.

The self-interest and blatant stupidity of these figures is not the scary thing, it is that they are a reflection of the dominant forces in the world. There is something to be said for them owning these traits, rather than previous politicians that lie, murder and steal to keep their true nature or past hidden.

I understand and I share your disgust and frustration with the clown show. But we ignore them at our own peril. Like firearms political "leadership" is inherently dangerous and like firearms, political leaderhip in the hands of idots, criminals and crazy people is the most dangerous thing of all.
We must remain vigilant. We must be intrepid and diligent because our Liberty is at stake.
Just know you are not alone

Like Martin Luther King Jr.? Oh, wait, he didn't ignore them, and received a death sentence by them for questioning their authority to issue death sentences for questioning their authority.

Ignoring them as they spend your capacity to prosper, spend posterities capacity to prosper, which includes spending all the loot they steal that could be productively invested in our self-defense against them, so that we can safely ignore them, since their crimes no longer pay them so well out of our productive capacity to defend against them.

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The fuse was lit in 1789. There was at least one explosion of the bomb lit in 1789, an explosion that occured predictably from April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865.

The explosion killed off many patriots while the criminals at the head of the beast remained solidly in power, and they took that opportunity to seize more power: on the official record no less, well documented treason against all lawful principles, such as those principles clearly documented in the Declaration of Independence (before it was censured), and the Bills of Rights in each State, and the failed Amendments to the criminal Constitution of 1789.

Proof:

The fuse is lit:

"But Hamilton wanted to go farther than debt assumption. He believed a funded national debt would assist in establishing public credit. By funding national debt, Hamilton envisioned the Congress setting aside a portion of tax revenues to pay each year's interest without an annual appropriation. Redemption of the principal would be left to the government's discretion. At the time Hamilton gave his Report on Public Credit, the national debt was $80 million. Though such a large figure shocked many Republicans who saw debt as a menace to be avoided, Hamilton perceived debt's benefits. "In countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and the object of established confidence," explained Hamilton, "it assumes most of the purposes of money." Federal stock would be issued in exchange for state and national debt certificates, with interest on the stock running about 4.5 percent. To Republicans the debt proposals were heresy. The farmers and planters of the South, who were predominantly Republican, owed enormous sums to British creditors and thus had firsthand knowledge of the misery wrought by debt. Debt, as Hamilton himself noted, must be paid or credit is ruined. High levels of taxation, Republicans prognosticated, would be necessary just to pay the interest on the perpetual debt. Believing that this tax burden would fall on the yeoman farmers and eventually rise to European levels, Republicans opposed Hamilton's debt program.

"To help pay the interest on the debt, Hamilton convinced the Congress to pass an excise on whiskey. In Federalist N. 12, Hamilton noted that because "[t]he genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise law," such taxes would be little used by the national government. In power, the Secretary of the Treasury soon changed his mind and the tax on the production of whiskey rankled Americans living on the frontier. Cash was scarce in the West and the Frontiersmen used whiskey as an item of barter."
Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and their Legacy
by William Watkins

The impending explosion resulting from that lit fuse was predicted:

New Constitution Creates A National Government; Will Not Abate Foreign Influence; Dangers Of Civil War And Despotism
Maryland Gazette and Baltimore Advertiser, March 7, 1788. The true identity of the author is unknown.
"In a national government, unless cautiously and fortunately administered, the disputes will be the deep-rooted differences of interest, where part of the empire must be injured by the operation of general law; and then should the sword of government be once drawn (which Heaven avert) I fear it will not be sheathed, until we have waded through that series of desolation, which France, Spain, and the other great kingdoms of the world have suffered, in order to bring so many separate States into uniformity, of government and law; in which event the legislative power can only be entrusted to one man (as it is with them) who can have no local attachments, partial interests, or private views to gratify."

Documented treason:

XIV - Citizen rights not to be abridged
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868
"4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."

Basic natural rights must be defended effectively, efficiently, and expediently (common law principles) for the natural reasons of natural laws that work naturally with human beings, when people are given the opportunity to perpetrate crime, some people will seize upon that opportunity as sure as the sun will shine on the Earth each day. A natural right is infringed (a crime is perpetrated) when criminals counterfeit the government, turning the combined defensive power of the people into a sordid, horrid, torturous, rapine, organ harvesting of children, murderous, and mass murderous crime spree, paid for by anyone who can produce anything worth stealing, including the children harvested for body parts and other perversions of a very basic natural law: consume posterity and we all die.

And the sheeple cheer!!

HArd to ignore it when it is everywhere.