From Bill Formby in MadMikesAmerica:
Every great civilization has to fall at some point in time in order to realize how fortunate it once was. Most do not commit suicide quite as quickly as we have, but they all do, eventually. Rome, Greece, the Egyptians, Spain, even England and France. To some degree I guess we are on the precipice of our downfall. I mean, Trump has not totally destroyed this great experiment yet but he is about to do so. He has shown us and the world that laws do not matter if one cons enough of the populace. After all, all a tyrant, dictator, or a king has is the belief of others that he is all powerful and everything he, or she, says is true.
Donald Trump has done a great job of brainwashing at least a third of the population of the American people. Some saw an opportunity to ride his coat tails to wealth. Others have saw an opportunity to be powerful and exert their hate toward others. There is no big secret here. It has been carried out numerous times throughout the history of mankind. Many of our forefathers ran from this but it has been with us all along.
I wish I could say there is light at the end of the tunnel. Ignorant, frightened, brainwashed, and racist Americans have chosen the path of darkness, and they have shown us they don’t need a majority to do so.
Democracy died in 2000. The American soul died in 2004 when it reelected the men who lied us into a war of aggression. Trump has only zombie-fied the rotting corpse into a white nationalist corporate state.
The late, great George Carlin told us back in 2007:
You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations, and they’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State Houses, and the City Halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear. They’ve got you by the balls.