At some point, the country might wake up and wonder what the heck was happening as Donald Trump and his family, plus his highest ranking cult members, brazenly extorted individuals, corporations, and even entire countries.
It's bad enough that this Mafia-style boss seems fixated on amassing money and power without limits, but his lack of interest in actually governing the nation that elected him is allowing some of the most rabid white nationalist bigots (often with some sort of personality disorder) to impose their will on a nation that simply doesn't know what to do about it and that hasn't fallen into bad enough times (yet) to even care.
Each morning I wake up to check online news publications I subscribe to, and each morning I find multiple outrages being pushed or passed or proposed by Trump's minions. What once were wacko conspiracy nuts are running a country of nearly 340 million. Trump is in early stages of dementia and has lost whatever ability he once had of seeing reality.
The other day he forced everyone in the Oval Office to sit and watch an obviously fake video showing white South Africans being buried. The video was from another country, shot two years ago, something that school children are routinely taught to find. When the president of South Africa gently suggested that he had never seen this before and that all the evidence says that one percent of all murders in his country have white victims, Trump's response was to talk over him.
I am not certain why any world leader should agree to sit in the White House for one of these orchestrated attacks. Perhaps desperation might account for gambling on something positive coming out of the experience. Hubris? All future dignitaries who meet Trump in his golden palace deserve their fate, I guess, but that assumes they can see reality.
Voters narrowly put Republicans in charge of the federal government and that slight majority may or may not end up suffering from the deficit-inflating, safety net for the poor diminishing, handout to Trump supporters already awash in money. I hope some of them suffer, which I admit is petty of me. Some nasty part of me like it when people get exactly what they deserve.
Last night Trump and sons hosted 100 crypto tycoons, all paying a million for a dinner and the chance to bribe Trump personally. Seventy percent were foreign nationals. America first!
My protest is, I'm sorry to say, this blog. And no one reads it, so this is mostly me "shouting" at my screen.
I don't want to give up hope as to the future. After all, Anna is graduating from high school tomorrow and Grace just finished her sophomore year at Iowa, and Max will be a freshman at Ballard HS this fall... and Jack is about to finish 6th grade. Giving up on America seems like giving up on our grandchildren and their futures.
Maybe that is what most Americans are relying on: hope that a nation that once was the clear leader of the planet, flawed and damaged as it is, might find its way back to, at least, being upfront about wanting justice and a reasonable chance at happiness.
I didn't want to get into all this for this post but a lot of Trump corruption has become so visible in the past week that I couldn't resist. I did want to reflect on how our younger granddaughter battled through some tough times last fall, from her Grandma Olson dying after a long, horrible disease robbed her of mobility and speech, to breaking her big toe while weightlifting and being denied a fair shot at returning to the varsity volleyball squad as a starting middle hitter. Oh, and her media adviser left her without much help for most of the year as he suffered from depression and occasional fear of crowds.
Somehow, she managed to overcome all the crap. I can see that she seems more mature in the past few months, and maybe all the crap that she overcame is part of that.
The USA is currently going through a lot of crap - far more crap than is normal - and maybe, just maybe, we will come out the other side (in about four years) both stronger and more sober about how taking a flyer on a criminal narcissist who entertains and lies like he breaths is something we should avoid.
I am under no illusion that America is a moral nation or a fair one, but I always have thought we at least agreed that being moral and fair was worth fighting for.
We will see.
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