I have a very good friend who’s about my age, i.e., getting old, who writes:
We the People either find a way to break Trump’s party’s grip on the wheel, or we go down with the ship….Like many of our older citizens, I’ve been fighting against this evil current for decades, and with many in later generations who’ve also been waking up and grabbing oars, I still hope we may together turn the tide.
In many, probably hundreds of talks we’ve had on this and related subjects, you’ve always been the more optimistic one. And that’s a good thing, as pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
I agree that there are scenarios under which Trump is removed from office before our nation becomes another Russia. Yet my imagination is running thin, as each day we have an event that boggles the mind: he did WHAT to the East Wing of the White House?
Does Washington D.C. need a new ballroom? Our course not. Trump has a need, however, and that is to show the American people that, to use my favorite French expression: les carottes sont cuites, i.e. “the carrots are cooked,” a metaphor for “the dinner I’ve made is a disaster and it’s too late to save it.”
Most of what he does on a daily basic is patently illegal, and, while small acts, like executing a few Venezuelans on the high seas with no proof of guilt of a crime may seem trivial, what they really mean is this: “Obviously I know that this clearly violates both domestic and international law. That’s the whole point. I can do anything I want, and no one can stop me.”
Is Trump Poised to Announce Victory over the American People?
A few times a week, I flick on Fox News for a minute or two just to see how they’re seeing current events under Trump. What I notice is that they seldom mention Trump at all; most of their content is about Democrats. You member them–the group that is powerless in the White House, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court.
They cover Joe Biden in great detail; they call him “Pothole Joe” now, I guess for his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, some of which may have been misspent?? I honestly don’t know.
The point is this: If you’re trying to make sense of the world around you today, how much do you need to understand about a man who has been out office since last January, and has no more effect on your political or financial lives than Daffy Duck?
The presence of Trump in our lives can be compared to the “chicken and egg” phenomenon. Did Trump cause our immorality, ignorance, and lies, or did an intellectually and morally failing electorate bring Trump into power?
The author of the meme here believes it’s the latter of the two, though I would say that it’s impossible to make the call here, as neither could have happened without the other.
In any case, all this leads to another discussion that Americans have constantly with one another: Is a difference in politics worth losing friends over? In my own mind, I frame the question a bit differently: How close do I want to be to someone who, for whatever reason, honestly believes that Trump is a good, honest, and effective leader of the United States?
I’d far rather have an evening martini and watch Jeopardy with my wife–even on a night when I really hate the categories.
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