While the government entered the second day of its shutdown, and while many of us are still reeling from the horrific details released in the latest Epstein documents, the President of the United States sat in the Oval Office, slouched forward in his tall leather chair, mouth sagging at the corners, with boredom you could see and feel. But something was different this time...
America got complacent, and we allowed the super-wealthy and powerful to run amok, literally raping and pillaging through our country. Our predatory capitalist system and worship of wealth and materialism allowed true predators to roam free, in our highest levels of government and business. The sickening rot in America is almost hard to describe. The accountability, consequences, corrective laws and regulations required to fix this represents the work of our, and our country's life. There are no shortcuts or easy ways to fix this decades-long descent into our current hell.
“Democracy cannot live in permanent revelation without consequence.” This hit like a ton of bricks, Heather. I’m 65. I remember spending beautiful summer days glued to the TV instead of playing at the beach with my friends because the Watergate hearings were being televised. I was convinced that our country had shown out-of-control powerful men that corruption and lying in our government would never be tolerated or go unpunished. And I believed it. Until now. The constant fire hose of horror, lying, cheating, gaslighting, gross corruption, negligence, and blatant outright criminality has made me doubt everything I thought I knew about this country, everything I believed in. And when I see it go on, day after day, month after month, year after year, with NO accountability, no punishment, and millions of Americans supporting it, it makes it hard to believe we’ll ever put things right again. What Nixon did was unforgivable. What Trump is doing feels unsurvivable.
Thank you, Heather. This should be the end of tRump and his minions. If it is not, then that tells you all we need to know about congress, this administration, and this country.
America got complacent, and we allowed the super-wealthy and powerful to run amok, literally raping and pillaging through our country. Our predatory capitalist system and worship of wealth and materialism allowed true predators to roam free, in our highest levels of government and business. The sickening rot in America is almost hard to describe. The accountability, consequences, corrective laws and regulations required to fix this represents the work of our, and our country's life. There are no shortcuts or easy ways to fix this decades-long descent into our current hell.
“Democracy cannot live in permanent revelation without consequence.” This hit like a ton of bricks, Heather. I’m 65. I remember spending beautiful summer days glued to the TV instead of playing at the beach with my friends because the Watergate hearings were being televised. I was convinced that our country had shown out-of-control powerful men that corruption and lying in our government would never be tolerated or go unpunished. And I believed it. Until now. The constant fire hose of horror, lying, cheating, gaslighting, gross corruption, negligence, and blatant outright criminality has made me doubt everything I thought I knew about this country, everything I believed in. And when I see it go on, day after day, month after month, year after year, with NO accountability, no punishment, and millions of Americans supporting it, it makes it hard to believe we’ll ever put things right again. What Nixon did was unforgivable. What Trump is doing feels unsurvivable.
Yes to the worst of it and yes to hope, the true Phoenix of this godawful time.
Thank you, Heather. This should be the end of tRump and his minions. If it is not, then that tells you all we need to know about congress, this administration, and this country.