I really don’t know what to say anymore about the government. I will say this one thing though: The difference between Republicans and Democrats is the long game. Republicans (voters and politicians) will stay in lock step with the party because they know they’ll eventually get what it is they are asking for. Democrats (derisively referred to as Dems) focus on what they believe is best for the nation and the people of their demographic and if that doesn’t correspond with the party line then the party line will not be towed. In other words, the Reps will stick to the power structure no matter what. Their basic argument is, If we do enough of what the people think they want and what the corps want and can show the numbers to prove success, the people will forget the nasty stuff.
And they are right.
Today Trump gave a speech to the American people about the killing of a major terrorist. He went off script (or the script was just trash) and spoke about a number of things vulgarly and unprofessionally, and mixed in a lot of lies and self aggrandizing. Basically, he did him. One line that stood out to me was, “Osama bin Laden was very big, but Osama bin Laden became big with the World Trade Center. This is a man who built a whole, as he would like to call it, a country, a caliphate, and was trying to do it again.”
He straight up acted like this was bigger than Bin laden. Out loud. That is because his accomplishments have to be the best ever. That is because this man, who was born after the so-called greatest generation has to be able to say to himself and the world that he is the greatest of all time. He’s Ali without any substantive skills to speak of outside of talking a ton of crap and having bilked the country out of a ton of money time and again.
I don’t really know why the establishment Reps follow him outside of the tradition of bending the knee to party leadership. Even there I think they are actually following the Senate leader’s will and that man’s will says make Trump stay standing as great for fear of what face we lose should he fail.
He already failed. He’s been a disaster in international affairs. He has set our place on the world stage back twenty years. Eventually someone is going to have to step in and clean up the mess, because that is what Adults do.
Yes, this is all personal opinion and probably could get me in a ton of trouble in a world that demands you say nothing too terrible about anyone, but so be it. We are born to be heard and to be seen and to bring positive change to the world. If I only get to do it in this small space and only to a handful of people, so be it.