October 11, 2018
America has long been guilty of throwing her weight
around. We talk about countries having
questionable human rights records? One of
our arguably less horrible presidents, Barack Obama was droning the hell out of
people – including some unknown number of innocent civilians – all over the
place. In our names, in our lifetimes,
there have been horrible disruptions across the globe: regime changes, propping
up of countless dictators, assassinations of leaders felt to be unfriendly to
our (i.e., corporate) interests, nations held economic hostage, outright wars
instigated by our elected leaders (and/or those who own them) for bad or no
reason, and of course, the only use of nuclear bombs (and depleted-uranium-enhanced
projectiles). This kind of behavior has
threatened the body politic, the citizenry, and at times the world. America is not averse to making herself and
those around her very sick.
We are witnessing in the time of Chrump some of the worst self-inflicted
injury yet. After surviving one of the
worst administrations in our nation’s history, and then turning things around a
bit with the subsequent administration – despite relentless Republican’t
obstruction, Tea Party (an angry mob if ever there was one) idiocy and
relentless racist douchebaggery, America was clearly in a state of deep
depression leading up to the 2016 election.
With a choice between the two most unpopular presidential candidates in
the history of polling, the electorate was dangerously on edge. Add to that the malfeasance of James Comey
and the successful interference on behalf of Donald Chrump by a Russian cast of
thousands and a Chrumpian cast of who knows how many.
The guy who “won” did not plan to win, he did not want to
win, and ultimately did not, by any reasonable measure, win. When it turned out that he did prevail – by
hook and by crook, he fired everyone who might help do the job. Then he brought in the most incompetent,
corrupt group of egomaniacal psychos conceivable to run the show. Sure, now many of them are or are about to be convicted
felons, but do not forget, we still have Kellyanne Conway, Ben Carson, Rick
Perry, Wilbur Ross, Jeff Sessions (soon to be replaced by the equally demented
Lindsey Graham), and a harrowing host of hapless whores in high places. And let us not forget Chrump’s second-in-cahoots
– the sickeningly translucent and often invisible, though no less dangerous
Mike Pence.
Mike Pence
Chrump’s inauguration address/funeral dirge assaulted the
nation – over half of whom were still trudging through various stages of grief
– with his deeply troubling, psychotic “American Carnage” tableau. Under the increasingly suffocating weight of Chrump’s
abusive administration, America, though struggling to maintain some semblance
of sanity, is arguably suicidal. She
tried to drink herself to death, started vomiting before the goal was
accomplished, and then put a gun to her own head, was too drunk to shoot
straight, and is now in the ICU trying to think of a reason to go on living. The doctor on call has made clear the change
in lifestyle that is necessary if a return to what passes for a healthy
democratic nation is in the cards. There
is only one possible cure. It is the predicted
Blue Wave of the 2018 electorate. Nothing
else can save America’s life.
So, will America decide to dial up the suicide hotline and summon
up a reason to stay in the game on November 6th? Or will she give up and wander off into Death
Valley, never to be heard from again after changing her name to
Chrumplandia? The Untied States of
Amnesia?
Chrump growled about American Carnage, but it was not made
manifest until after his
inauguration. Things were not perfect
before January 20, 2017 – not ever. This
nation is as flawed as any, but it has had its moments. Chrump brought on the carnage with a
vengeance. He deepened the swamp and is perhaps
literally strangling the life out of our democratic republic. For over two years now, we kept thinking he
cannot get any worse, and we had to force ourselves to think it every day, as
he got worse and worse. No one thinks he
can’t get any worse anymore.
So, I guess if things do not turn around, we can call it
assisted suicide.
I. Mangrey resuscitating.
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