By now you\u2019ve guessed we live in a banana republic run by thugs and mobsters. Maybe you\u2019re like me, slightly shocked at the revelation our Leader doesn\u2019t give a damn about the country, just his bottom line. Or maybe you think the folks attacking the Cohen testimony without once making even a vague attempt to counter corroborating evidence were simply acting as the Loyal Opposition, not enablers of what will, in due time, impeachment or not, prison or not, prove to be the greatest swindle by an elected official in American history. <\/p>\n
Nobody with even the Scarecrow\u2019s brain would doubt what has been perpetrated on us dumb citizens. All the lies, all the braggadocio, all the emoluments, all the Donald kids selling their own brands, all the conflicts of interest, all the affairs and their cover-ups, all the attacks on any and all who dare to pull back the Wizard\u2019s curtain, all the abject ignorance, all the tax schemes, all of it day after day, brazen and blatant, what kind of traitor to American values would defend this?<\/p>\n
Plenty, it turns out. Most of the Loyal Opposition, it would appear. When Trump famously bragged he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and get away with it, well, he was right. If you wonder how tyrants become dictators, you\u2019re getting a civics lesson every day. They don\u2019t take over with a coup, they take over inch by inch with the blessing of the people who benefit from his policies. And the population who like a \u2018strong man\u2019, the kind of man who embodies their own fears and prejudices, who isn\u2019t afraid to attack the weak, the poor, the different, the \u2018others\u2019. They don\u2019t realize yet that he will eventually attack them. He\u2019ll make them the poor and the weak. He\u2019ll put a boot on their neck too. <\/p>\n
If you think the America you studied in high school history class is a country where democratic ideals will triumph over corruption and demagoguery, you\u2019re getting a daily dose of reality. The Trump Brand is about one man. He\u2019s ignorant and obnoxious and let\u2019s face it, he\u2019s popular. He\u2019s selling himself and if he has to sell out the country, no big deal. If you\u2019re not frightened by this yet, you should be. If you thought the Mueller Report would put an end to this reign of ignorance and greed, you thought wrong. Half of Congress turned a blind eye. Most of the \u2018base\u2019 did too. Something has turned putrid in the body politic and we\u2019re close to becoming a country we never thought possible. <\/p>\n
The Trump Brand, when the smoke clears and the mirrors are broken, will be a sad chapter in American History. This is the face of capitalism run amok, brakes out, no regulations, no boundaries. This is unchecked greed. Its name is Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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