Where Did Green Eagle Go?
Writing blog posts, like doing anything else, requires a belief that, in at least some minuscule, tiny way, you are helping steer things in a better direction.
Well, I have pretty much given up on that. The Republican party has succeeded beyond its wildest hopes in building an electorate that is absolutely immune to any facts, any reason, any thought of human decency. And they have taken over, and intend to do what they want. This has been clear enough, but is even more so after we have witnessed the ease in which they were able, with the collaboration of the mainstream press, to turn James Comey's testimony, by far the most shocking official indictment of a President's behavior in the entire history of the country, into a victory for Trump, in the eyes of his supporters.
And describing our nation's swift progress from a sort of a democracy to an oligarchic despotism, with only the barest pretense of being anything else, is useless, because the people who might read what I have to say can see it perfectly by themselves.
So, I'm not saying that I'm giving up blogging, but I have to find some reason to believe that anything I say isn't totally obvious to anyone who cares about this country. I can't say how often that will be, but right now, I don't think there is a thing any of us can do to stop the United States' headlong rush to dictatorship.
Well, I have pretty much given up on that. The Republican party has succeeded beyond its wildest hopes in building an electorate that is absolutely immune to any facts, any reason, any thought of human decency. And they have taken over, and intend to do what they want. This has been clear enough, but is even more so after we have witnessed the ease in which they were able, with the collaboration of the mainstream press, to turn James Comey's testimony, by far the most shocking official indictment of a President's behavior in the entire history of the country, into a victory for Trump, in the eyes of his supporters.
And describing our nation's swift progress from a sort of a democracy to an oligarchic despotism, with only the barest pretense of being anything else, is useless, because the people who might read what I have to say can see it perfectly by themselves.
So, I'm not saying that I'm giving up blogging, but I have to find some reason to believe that anything I say isn't totally obvious to anyone who cares about this country. I can't say how often that will be, but right now, I don't think there is a thing any of us can do to stop the United States' headlong rush to dictatorship.
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Love from Canada
I just read with grim amusement in the press today: "he (Trump) has told his staff that he wants to avoid a marathon overseas trip like his nine-day trek to the Middle East and Europe, which he found exhausting and overly long"...
This was the person who questioned Hillary Clinton's physical stamina, into the echo chamber of the rancid right wing media.
Now I know Trump is not young but he wasn't doing laps of an oval at all these places he was travelling in absolute comfort surrounded by slimy courtiers and assorted arse wipers. There was no mental strain involved because he doesn't do intellectual work. There was no emotional strain because he doesn't give a fuck.
He's just said himself he's physically and mentally not up to the job, and this is but year one of his infantile reign.
If we are lucky enough to shake off Trump or if he ends up in a private sanitarium in Scotland, the infection will remain, like hepatitis or malaria. Like a wound that just won't close up.