The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

These are tough times in the Land of the Rich, Home of the Corporation. And you know as well as me, when times get tough, the tough huddle up with their tax lawyers. My newly minted president doesn’t pay taxes and claims that because he doesn’t, it proves how smart he is. The dishonest media wants him to show them his tax statements, maybe see where his money is actually coming from over there in Russia. The dishonest media distorts his real position on those Russian hacks and his refusal to believe the good Moscovites would stoop so low as to feed Wikileaks the Democratic National Committee’s e-mails. So what if even the right wing Republicans believe the dishonest media, someone has to stand firm in his convictions, or at least his gut instinct.

My mother would have washed our mouths out with soap, but those were vicious times when the rod was never spared and the child was seldom lost. Even if the child ended up beating his own kids. A few days ago that seem like months Mr. T was made President of these not so United States, proving once again that democracy is a work in progress and maybe not a permanent state of affairs. For those of you who think that placing our trust in a racist, thin-skinned bully best known for self-promotion is tantamount to a trainwreck, let me say that folks who were fed up with Wall Street shenanigans and lost jobs in these globalized times threw the dice. My liberal pals who think Bernie might have won or maybe Joe Biden, okay, maybe, but the Donald fed off the fury and resentment of folks who think the immigrants have stolen their jobs, that blacks are welfare cheats, that homosexuals are going to hell in a hurry, that transsexuals are bathroom predators, that both political parties are beholden to Big Money, that a woman, particularly a Clinton, was unfit for office and that it was high time to shake things up.

Well, we’ll see, won’t we? If those folks pinned their hopes on a vicious clown, well, we’re all in for a wild ride. If some of their anger was misdirected, okay, maybe the next election they’ll try some other crazy experiment. You know, like fairer tax laws or single payer health care. But don’t bet your 401-K on it. People still vote their pocketbooks and until the rich learn they don’t need to accumulate every last dime and nickel and Lincoln penny and to hell with the lazy poor, you can expect pitchfork politics to continue. Even the 1% might regret this much excessive greed when the guillotines get rolled into the public squares.

Meanwhile, let’s hope the dishonest media isn’t cowed by all this bluster and bullying. If nobody is checking on facts, Big Brother has already won. And the rich will only get richer. God only knows, they need the money.

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