Where has truth gone? Where are the facts buried? Why do people believe in the lies they are told? Why has life been imitating the apocalyptic scenarios of literature where democracy, brotherhood, hope, optimism and all things positive are destroyed, trampled upon and all things negative are raised to the heights?
I cannot answer these questions for I simply do not understand why people have allowed themselves to be fooled, to be cheated, as they still cheer for a lying molester with evil plans for the "little guy" he is supposedly championing and big plans to increase his bottom line as well as those of his fellow robber barons. We thought the era of robber barons long gone, did we not, reading of it in history class, but here it is again, bigger and worse than ever. And why have people been so eager to hand over the promise of America to people who simply hold it in contempt and destroy it.
Yes, there are people who have been resisting, but does it not shock you when the term resistance is used here in our country. The resistance was a term used in foreign countries who were under the thrall of an enemy nation, conquered, in a subordinate condition. But here there is no foreign nation, there is no conquering, only that which we have allowed within ourselves.
The little guy? Well, let's see. The thousands of jobs in coal? 1,500 and the rest? Nowhere to be found in this "beautiful clean" fuel!
A massive tax cut? Yup, if you are among the high wealthy people such as Trump whose children and grandchildren now stand to inherit $22 million tax free!!! Wow, the little guy indeed. And the tax cut that is supposedly on track for next year? Well, hold on to it tightly - if you even see it - for the following years take it away and nicely add to your tax burden. Yup, the little guy indeed.
Okay, so let's turn to an important component of our lives - the internet, for good or bad. It has become integral to every aspect of life and yet, there is no more net neutrality, meaning the big companies are going to rake it in in fees, in 'blackmail' demands and as for us, why we will just be paying higher fees or having to do without. The wealthy - why never you mind, for with all their tax cuts and money this will be nothing to them. After all, they are the upper class and let us not forget that and our place in the new scheme of things.
Our very lives will be in danger in a real sense of the word as we lose all the protections and regulations that would have helped us clean the air, keep the environment clean and healthy, help us keep our country's history and natural beauty, keep watchdogs over the selfish huge industries, keep our food clean of chemicals, make sure our water was clean and on and on. But now? Now they are gone, lost in the mists of the selfishness, incompetency and cold hearted economic plans of Trump and his minions, the lack of morality in the politicians of Washington. Clean the swamp? This man has increased its size and murkiness and what is worse - is planning more and does it right in the open. And us - well, screw us is the term of the day.
I could go on what with the collusion with Russia and now secret planning with Communist China re Korea and war plans or the backstabbing of his trade plans and the future peril involved with these trade plans. The rise of open prejudice and hatred and the black future that portends.
I wrote yesterday of the responsibility of we, the people. That responsibility grows ever heavier upon the shoulders of those who know we must, we have, to resist or we are lost and the country is lost to our kids, lost to the control of the cruel, the uber wealthy, the uncaring, the selfish immoral ones. As for us, we will be choking away, scrambling for a piece of bread, a crust to feed our starving kids and if you think I am stretching the truth - just look at the once wealthy and functioning countries of South America and look at their starving people today - literally starving, at the hopelessness and at the growing violence. We are and should be better than that.
WE THE PEOPLE.
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