It has been just three weeks and a day since a crazed mob, egged on by the former president and his supporters, stormed the U.S. Capitol to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election. They smashed into the building, carrying handcuffs and searching for our elected officials, whom they threatened to harm. They killed one police officer and wounded 140 more. Our vice president, senators, and representatives, along with all their staff, had to be evacuated to secure quarters, and then to hide, while rioters took over the building, rifling through their offices and smearing excrement on the floors.
This is so deeply frightening. I spent @ 20 of my younger years living in a California cult led by an older, charismatic narcissistic man with many similarities to the now ex-president. I know how exciting and compelling it was to feel like I belonged to a special in-the-know, superior group, and how willing I was for many years to deny obvious facts in order to be in the good graces of the leader and the group — and how hard it was to break from that. There are parts of all of us that want someone else to figure out the hard stuff and shift all responsibility and blame off ourselves or our in-group. What we are witnessing is the growth of a massive cult, but much more along the lines of the burgeoning Hitler/Nazi movement in Germany between the wars than my small group of oddballs in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s. The naked white Christian supremacy that it stands on, and the moves to permanently entrench the unilateral rule of that minority, are terrifying. We have eked out a reprieve, but the clock is still running. What do we do?
The presentation of evidence at the Senate trial is vitally important for the American public to witness, whether seditious Republican Senators turn a blind eye or not. Everything and everyone that contributed to The Big Lie and the Capitol insurrection, whether specific individuals were physically present or not, needs to be revealed in graphic detail. At a minimum, this travesty needs to be detailed and documented for history.
Moreover, I think we need to be demanding every day for all of this to be taken deadly seriously by our Senators, as well as our Representatives, and the loudest voices need to be from anyone who has a Republican Senator representing their State. We cannot assume that the trial is for naught, because 45 Senators have already tried to weasel out of their Constitutional duty by claiming that the impeachment is unconstitutional. Talk about gaslighting! Impeachment is a political process. Make it so. What can we make the cost be to them if they don’t convict? Do anything you can to get their attention. Call their offices, write letters, repeatedly, and get everyone you know to commit to making calls and writing letters. We have to keep the heat on. The staff in the legislators’ offices keep a record of constituents’ calls and report the data to the Senators and Reps. It has made a difference before... Remember the outcry when the ACA was threatened a few years ago? American voters’ voices - incessant, loud and clear - made a difference then. Our voices could make a difference now.
It is insane that these right-wing extremists have gotten away with as much as they have already. I didn’t think it was possible for me to be more outraged than I was every day that Trump was in office, but the events in January and the Republican response to the insurrection have sent my outrage into the stratosphere and it is coupled with a deep, profound sadness. I know that I am not alone. We need to use our outrage as fuel to raise our voices to demand justice and accountability from our legislative representatives.
Well, today’s Letter sums up a rather starkly, the challenge we are all facing. I’ve got nothing to add to Professor Richardson’s analysis, but I would like to share a thought.
Those of us who played sports (or the younger among us who still do) know that preparation/training is key. For the battle ahead, my first step is doing such much needed homework.
Here’s the short list of what is on my nightstand:
Caste: The Lies That Divide Us, by Isabel Wilkerson
How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Fixing our Democracy
I want to thank the people in this space for these suggestions and look forward to hearing more.
I find it interesting that Republicans base their actions on what is wrong with Democrats, not what is right with their own party. Yelling loudly enough about how bad the "libs" are shows how little Republicans themselves have to offer. When you have no game, attack, suppress votes and point fingers. But when you point at someone three fingers are pointing back at yourself.
It's amazing to me that Republicans are putting party first, not the good of the nation. If when a president incites insurrection is not an impeachable offense, then what is? Unfortunately, politicians have fallen back into survival mode, which requires them to gingerly remove their own spines. The notion of doing the right thing for the country disappears, which opens the door for a real, well-organized coup in the future.
Thank you Prof. Richardson for reminding us that Trump isn't off playing golf in La-La Land. He's meeting with the House Minority Leader to plan a Republican takeover of the House. We have an overwhelming wish to believe that he's not just out of sight and mind, but out of our world. He is not. And his violent lackies, who supported the execution of the Speaker and the Squad (hardly allies), have vowed on a Bible to be loyal to the Constitution and are skirting the metal detectors on their way into the People's House, armed, to legislate. In the words of W. Shakespeare: "Clarence, we are not safe."
The Republicans continue to devolve into a fractured mess with power hungry white supremacist malcontents. They’re no longer trying to hide their intentions.
Hopefully a flurry of civil and criminal lawsuits derail the twice impeached former president, and render him impotent and irrelevant.
In the meantime, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other elected representatives who undertook seditious acts should be removed from office and charged criminally.
Professor Richardson, first thing this morning I read your urgent, sharply focused snapshot of where-we-stand-today—the reality of this moment in America. I knew this reality, but once you’d summed it up so clearly I scrolled down and read the first few comments, coming to one that read “Lord, deliver us from evil”. At which point I could take no more and retired for hours to pray for the strength to face up to the foul reality show the New York hoodlum has unleashed on our suffering world.
At the weekend, mass demonstrations in over a hundred Russian cities from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok against Trump’s model for America, his mentor Putin’s bandit oligarchy, met with lies, jail and the knout. Worse will likely follow. Covid-19 mutated and spread.
Question: does the United States possess the means to deal with the armed insurgency fomented by the racketeer who made it to president, and who, having struck once, is following time-honored mafia tactics and threatening more of the same until he has his way? I'd long seen America’s politics as the heartless party vs. the gutless party, but today’s faction-torn GOP looks like poor Rebekah with a heartless twin battling a gutless one in her womb.
What this means is that, unless and until the US government finds a way of dealing with the ongoing insurrection—bringing criminal charges against ringleaders Trump, Cruz and cronies and putting them out of harm's way—no one on earth will be safe. The violent chaos America has sown in the Middle East has come back from Iraq and Somalia to haunt her.
The cowardly too-big-to-fail pretext of 2008 won't wash for a political party in thrall to a murderous psychosis. Straitjackets and padded cells for the psychopaths, the perp walk for the leading mobsters, those who got themselves into Congress via the ballot box then betrayed their country, unleashing on the world the rabble whose minds they’d first poisoned. The 14th amendment for them all.
And, in case anyone tries to stick targets marked “left-wing” or “lib” on me, I’m 81, I am not partisan, I’ve had a civil servant’s ringside seat from which to observe politics throughout my active life, learning to respect those operators who did their job competently, regardless of whether or not I cared for their party; but the world has in the past thirty years tilted so sharply rightward, then further and further, that the boring middle-of-the-road principles I’ve held to for over six decades are bound to shock those who’ve never had a thought of their own but came into the world fully armed with granddad’s solid, unchanging hand-me-down hatreds and prejudices. Zombie ideas from another age promising death and destruction for our children and grandchildren and for life on earth as all human generations have known it.
The responsibility facing us all at this time is probably unprecedented.
Dr. Richardson, it is always dark when I start your letter. As I read I watch the back yard emerge as the light arrives. It always does. I hope the light arrives soon to those who still believe in the twice-impeached former president. He and his followers are a cancer that must be excised if we are to keep our democracy.
I remember well the warning as a child not to run with scissors. It seems the modern Republican Party is heavily populated with those who either never received that warning or have forgotten it.
I am now watching most of them gleefully running around with open scissors in each hand, eager to use them to cut out from the party all deemed insufficiently loyal to #45. My reaction, when I am able to calmly reflect on this, is to hand out additional pairs of scissors to them all and provide enough candy to keep them on a sugar high.
While we may endure a period chaos and even some degree of violent protests, it seems their anger is directed at least as much against each other than at the smooth functioning of government. Biden and his team are proceeding calmly to return America to stable and sane governance, and are focusing on matters requiring attention and too long ignored or mismanaged by the previous administration. Likewise Pelosi and Schumer are each organizing their caucuses and moving forward on crafting and passing the enabling legislation to enact the Biden administration priorities for the American people.
So while we have the insane inmates of the asylum running through the halls with open scissors threatening each other with violence, the doctors and attendants have retreated to their offices and are attending to business.
Eventually, Republicans may do such damage within their ranks that their numbers will shrink and they will lose yet more control for themselves of governing in a responsible manner leaving Democrats firmly in charge. Yes, the crazy mob running about with scissors is disturbing and threatening. But, perhaps we should stay out of their path, remain in our offices tending to business, and simply let their destructive behavior continue until it burns itself out. Running around trying to take the scissors from their hands or urging them to walk, not run, likely will not reduce their panic or calm their behavior, and only increases our own danger by placing us in the midst of their melee.
I urge all to remain calm and focus on our own task of govening responsibly and to focus our attention and efforts on solving the problems America and the world faces. Allow the inmates of the asylum to continue to run wildly amongst themselves with open scissors. This will eventually pass and there is no reason for us to endanger ourselves in their midst.
Corporations. There's a good reason that some people despise corporations. We should be patient and considerate when someone is raging about corporations, rather than turning away.
Why? Why should we refrain from labeling these discontented people silently in our minds as extremists or, to use a word posted here not long ago, outliers?
Heather says, "Those in the business wing of the party are not moderates: they are determined to destroy the government regulation, social welfare legislation, and public infrastructure programs that a majority of Americans like. But they are not openly white supremacists or adherents of the QAnon conspiracy, the way that Trump’s vocal supporters are."
No, they may not be openly white supremacists, but let's just take a quick peek at some corporate history, shall we? The kind of corporate history that doesn't make it into the news very often, not good publicity.
You know those famous numbered tattoos on the forearms of Jews in concentration camps? Those numbers are IBM numbers. That's right, it turns out that keeping track of millions of subhuman people is difficult to do with card index files, so computer software was necessary just to manage the load of information. This is the 1930s and 40s, mind you. It's amazing that any computer technology was available at all.
You know who supplied the Zyklon B cyanide pesticide for those infamous gas chambers? BASF, a big German company equivalent to Dow Chemical or Dupont. Bayerische Anneliden u. Sodafabrik.
Speaking of Dow and Dupont and BASF, who, I wonder, supplied the poison gas used in trench warfare during WW1? Who supplied the gunpowder for the munitions on either side of the Atlantic? Corporations.
In Japan, Mitsubishi manufactured the Zero. In the US, the companies that supplied all the tools of warfare are usually categorized as hero organizations, but I question that argument. War is not an activity that, generally speaking, you want to tout as noble or healthy. Sorry TC.
Who manufactured and supplied napalm?
The list goes on and on. Deutsche Bank, yes our lovely supplier of funds to our dearly departed President, our likely money launderer for some of Putin's millions paid to him, was the bank of choice for Nazi Germany. No exaggeration, Deutsche Bank translated is something like "German National Bank." They took their role seriously, even during the Hitler Administration. [Try out the beginning chapters of "Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump . . . " for reference]
You get my drift.
Corporations, by and large, are amoral. Some of the biggest war crimes in history have been aided and abetted by corporations.
Don't ever call them heroes. Don't listen to the PR about how noble they are. Bull.
I'll be 70 next month. My parents were die-hard Stevenson/Kennedy Democrats. I was taught from the cradle to loathe Richard Nixon and later that Barry Goldwater was a dangerous, way-out-there radical.
How far we have come.
At the 2020 Republican Convention the GOP decided to abandon the usual God, guns, and tax-cuts platform. There would be only one plank; loyalty to Donald Trump.
Paul Krugman's column in today's NY Times is titled, "The GOP Is in a Doom Loop of Bizarro." The column ends with a statement; "But a party that buys into bizarre conspiracy theories and denies the legitimacy of its opposition isn’t getting saner, and still has a good chance of taking complete power in four years."
How did a major political party fall into the thrall of such a deeply flawed human being? Had the Covid 19 pandemic not come along Donald Trump likely would have been re-elected. I shudder at that thought. Not because it could still happen, but because millions of my fellow citizens seem to want to dance on the grave of American democracy. This leads to the haunting question; was Jan. 6th a wake-up call or a pre-cursor?
Thank you Heather. My heart hurts for you to have to surmise this disintegrating Country.
As many of us thought, at this point we would be looking at a Country trying to unify and start putting people before Party. Instead we are seeing that everything we thought was bad is actually worse. As Nancy Pelosi states "the enemy is from within ", she is correct. I watch Biden doing his best to put the Nation in the proper direction, yet his every move is discounted and challenged by the GOP and the vitrol of the trumpers and most Republicans is overwhelming. This Nation reminds me of a boat with dry rot. Regardless of how presentable you try to make it, it's still a failed vessel.
Simple idea: America is now divided into two camps - those who read widely and critically, those who don’t. Education system, especially civics study, has failed us.
This is so deeply frightening. I spent @ 20 of my younger years living in a California cult led by an older, charismatic narcissistic man with many similarities to the now ex-president. I know how exciting and compelling it was to feel like I belonged to a special in-the-know, superior group, and how willing I was for many years to deny obvious facts in order to be in the good graces of the leader and the group — and how hard it was to break from that. There are parts of all of us that want someone else to figure out the hard stuff and shift all responsibility and blame off ourselves or our in-group. What we are witnessing is the growth of a massive cult, but much more along the lines of the burgeoning Hitler/Nazi movement in Germany between the wars than my small group of oddballs in San Francisco in the '70s and '80s. The naked white Christian supremacy that it stands on, and the moves to permanently entrench the unilateral rule of that minority, are terrifying. We have eked out a reprieve, but the clock is still running. What do we do?
The presentation of evidence at the Senate trial is vitally important for the American public to witness, whether seditious Republican Senators turn a blind eye or not. Everything and everyone that contributed to The Big Lie and the Capitol insurrection, whether specific individuals were physically present or not, needs to be revealed in graphic detail. At a minimum, this travesty needs to be detailed and documented for history.
Moreover, I think we need to be demanding every day for all of this to be taken deadly seriously by our Senators, as well as our Representatives, and the loudest voices need to be from anyone who has a Republican Senator representing their State. We cannot assume that the trial is for naught, because 45 Senators have already tried to weasel out of their Constitutional duty by claiming that the impeachment is unconstitutional. Talk about gaslighting! Impeachment is a political process. Make it so. What can we make the cost be to them if they don’t convict? Do anything you can to get their attention. Call their offices, write letters, repeatedly, and get everyone you know to commit to making calls and writing letters. We have to keep the heat on. The staff in the legislators’ offices keep a record of constituents’ calls and report the data to the Senators and Reps. It has made a difference before... Remember the outcry when the ACA was threatened a few years ago? American voters’ voices - incessant, loud and clear - made a difference then. Our voices could make a difference now.
It is insane that these right-wing extremists have gotten away with as much as they have already. I didn’t think it was possible for me to be more outraged than I was every day that Trump was in office, but the events in January and the Republican response to the insurrection have sent my outrage into the stratosphere and it is coupled with a deep, profound sadness. I know that I am not alone. We need to use our outrage as fuel to raise our voices to demand justice and accountability from our legislative representatives.
Well, today’s Letter sums up a rather starkly, the challenge we are all facing. I’ve got nothing to add to Professor Richardson’s analysis, but I would like to share a thought.
Those of us who played sports (or the younger among us who still do) know that preparation/training is key. For the battle ahead, my first step is doing such much needed homework.
Here’s the short list of what is on my nightstand:
Caste: The Lies That Divide Us, by Isabel Wilkerson
How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Fixing our Democracy
I want to thank the people in this space for these suggestions and look forward to hearing more.
I find it interesting that Republicans base their actions on what is wrong with Democrats, not what is right with their own party. Yelling loudly enough about how bad the "libs" are shows how little Republicans themselves have to offer. When you have no game, attack, suppress votes and point fingers. But when you point at someone three fingers are pointing back at yourself.
It's amazing to me that Republicans are putting party first, not the good of the nation. If when a president incites insurrection is not an impeachable offense, then what is? Unfortunately, politicians have fallen back into survival mode, which requires them to gingerly remove their own spines. The notion of doing the right thing for the country disappears, which opens the door for a real, well-organized coup in the future.
Thank you Prof. Richardson for reminding us that Trump isn't off playing golf in La-La Land. He's meeting with the House Minority Leader to plan a Republican takeover of the House. We have an overwhelming wish to believe that he's not just out of sight and mind, but out of our world. He is not. And his violent lackies, who supported the execution of the Speaker and the Squad (hardly allies), have vowed on a Bible to be loyal to the Constitution and are skirting the metal detectors on their way into the People's House, armed, to legislate. In the words of W. Shakespeare: "Clarence, we are not safe."
The Republicans continue to devolve into a fractured mess with power hungry white supremacist malcontents. They’re no longer trying to hide their intentions.
Hopefully a flurry of civil and criminal lawsuits derail the twice impeached former president, and render him impotent and irrelevant.
In the meantime, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other elected representatives who undertook seditious acts should be removed from office and charged criminally.
I write from Europe.
Professor Richardson, first thing this morning I read your urgent, sharply focused snapshot of where-we-stand-today—the reality of this moment in America. I knew this reality, but once you’d summed it up so clearly I scrolled down and read the first few comments, coming to one that read “Lord, deliver us from evil”. At which point I could take no more and retired for hours to pray for the strength to face up to the foul reality show the New York hoodlum has unleashed on our suffering world.
At the weekend, mass demonstrations in over a hundred Russian cities from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok against Trump’s model for America, his mentor Putin’s bandit oligarchy, met with lies, jail and the knout. Worse will likely follow. Covid-19 mutated and spread.
Question: does the United States possess the means to deal with the armed insurgency fomented by the racketeer who made it to president, and who, having struck once, is following time-honored mafia tactics and threatening more of the same until he has his way? I'd long seen America’s politics as the heartless party vs. the gutless party, but today’s faction-torn GOP looks like poor Rebekah with a heartless twin battling a gutless one in her womb.
What this means is that, unless and until the US government finds a way of dealing with the ongoing insurrection—bringing criminal charges against ringleaders Trump, Cruz and cronies and putting them out of harm's way—no one on earth will be safe. The violent chaos America has sown in the Middle East has come back from Iraq and Somalia to haunt her.
The cowardly too-big-to-fail pretext of 2008 won't wash for a political party in thrall to a murderous psychosis. Straitjackets and padded cells for the psychopaths, the perp walk for the leading mobsters, those who got themselves into Congress via the ballot box then betrayed their country, unleashing on the world the rabble whose minds they’d first poisoned. The 14th amendment for them all.
And, in case anyone tries to stick targets marked “left-wing” or “lib” on me, I’m 81, I am not partisan, I’ve had a civil servant’s ringside seat from which to observe politics throughout my active life, learning to respect those operators who did their job competently, regardless of whether or not I cared for their party; but the world has in the past thirty years tilted so sharply rightward, then further and further, that the boring middle-of-the-road principles I’ve held to for over six decades are bound to shock those who’ve never had a thought of their own but came into the world fully armed with granddad’s solid, unchanging hand-me-down hatreds and prejudices. Zombie ideas from another age promising death and destruction for our children and grandchildren and for life on earth as all human generations have known it.
The responsibility facing us all at this time is probably unprecedented.
Dr. Richardson, it is always dark when I start your letter. As I read I watch the back yard emerge as the light arrives. It always does. I hope the light arrives soon to those who still believe in the twice-impeached former president. He and his followers are a cancer that must be excised if we are to keep our democracy.
I remember well the warning as a child not to run with scissors. It seems the modern Republican Party is heavily populated with those who either never received that warning or have forgotten it.
I am now watching most of them gleefully running around with open scissors in each hand, eager to use them to cut out from the party all deemed insufficiently loyal to #45. My reaction, when I am able to calmly reflect on this, is to hand out additional pairs of scissors to them all and provide enough candy to keep them on a sugar high.
While we may endure a period chaos and even some degree of violent protests, it seems their anger is directed at least as much against each other than at the smooth functioning of government. Biden and his team are proceeding calmly to return America to stable and sane governance, and are focusing on matters requiring attention and too long ignored or mismanaged by the previous administration. Likewise Pelosi and Schumer are each organizing their caucuses and moving forward on crafting and passing the enabling legislation to enact the Biden administration priorities for the American people.
So while we have the insane inmates of the asylum running through the halls with open scissors threatening each other with violence, the doctors and attendants have retreated to their offices and are attending to business.
Eventually, Republicans may do such damage within their ranks that their numbers will shrink and they will lose yet more control for themselves of governing in a responsible manner leaving Democrats firmly in charge. Yes, the crazy mob running about with scissors is disturbing and threatening. But, perhaps we should stay out of their path, remain in our offices tending to business, and simply let their destructive behavior continue until it burns itself out. Running around trying to take the scissors from their hands or urging them to walk, not run, likely will not reduce their panic or calm their behavior, and only increases our own danger by placing us in the midst of their melee.
I urge all to remain calm and focus on our own task of govening responsibly and to focus our attention and efforts on solving the problems America and the world faces. Allow the inmates of the asylum to continue to run wildly amongst themselves with open scissors. This will eventually pass and there is no reason for us to endanger ourselves in their midst.
A failed attempt at insurrection becomes a training exercise. All those involved must be apprehended, tried and punished.
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, as it turns out.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/holocaust-remembrance-day
Corporations. There's a good reason that some people despise corporations. We should be patient and considerate when someone is raging about corporations, rather than turning away.
Why? Why should we refrain from labeling these discontented people silently in our minds as extremists or, to use a word posted here not long ago, outliers?
Heather says, "Those in the business wing of the party are not moderates: they are determined to destroy the government regulation, social welfare legislation, and public infrastructure programs that a majority of Americans like. But they are not openly white supremacists or adherents of the QAnon conspiracy, the way that Trump’s vocal supporters are."
No, they may not be openly white supremacists, but let's just take a quick peek at some corporate history, shall we? The kind of corporate history that doesn't make it into the news very often, not good publicity.
You know those famous numbered tattoos on the forearms of Jews in concentration camps? Those numbers are IBM numbers. That's right, it turns out that keeping track of millions of subhuman people is difficult to do with card index files, so computer software was necessary just to manage the load of information. This is the 1930s and 40s, mind you. It's amazing that any computer technology was available at all.
You know who supplied the Zyklon B cyanide pesticide for those infamous gas chambers? BASF, a big German company equivalent to Dow Chemical or Dupont. Bayerische Anneliden u. Sodafabrik.
Speaking of Dow and Dupont and BASF, who, I wonder, supplied the poison gas used in trench warfare during WW1? Who supplied the gunpowder for the munitions on either side of the Atlantic? Corporations.
In Japan, Mitsubishi manufactured the Zero. In the US, the companies that supplied all the tools of warfare are usually categorized as hero organizations, but I question that argument. War is not an activity that, generally speaking, you want to tout as noble or healthy. Sorry TC.
Who manufactured and supplied napalm?
The list goes on and on. Deutsche Bank, yes our lovely supplier of funds to our dearly departed President, our likely money launderer for some of Putin's millions paid to him, was the bank of choice for Nazi Germany. No exaggeration, Deutsche Bank translated is something like "German National Bank." They took their role seriously, even during the Hitler Administration. [Try out the beginning chapters of "Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump . . . " for reference]
You get my drift.
Corporations, by and large, are amoral. Some of the biggest war crimes in history have been aided and abetted by corporations.
Don't ever call them heroes. Don't listen to the PR about how noble they are. Bull.
The GOP is no longer a political party, they've morphed into a seditious mob.
I'll be 70 next month. My parents were die-hard Stevenson/Kennedy Democrats. I was taught from the cradle to loathe Richard Nixon and later that Barry Goldwater was a dangerous, way-out-there radical.
How far we have come.
At the 2020 Republican Convention the GOP decided to abandon the usual God, guns, and tax-cuts platform. There would be only one plank; loyalty to Donald Trump.
Paul Krugman's column in today's NY Times is titled, "The GOP Is in a Doom Loop of Bizarro." The column ends with a statement; "But a party that buys into bizarre conspiracy theories and denies the legitimacy of its opposition isn’t getting saner, and still has a good chance of taking complete power in four years."
How did a major political party fall into the thrall of such a deeply flawed human being? Had the Covid 19 pandemic not come along Donald Trump likely would have been re-elected. I shudder at that thought. Not because it could still happen, but because millions of my fellow citizens seem to want to dance on the grave of American democracy. This leads to the haunting question; was Jan. 6th a wake-up call or a pre-cursor?
Thank you Heather. My heart hurts for you to have to surmise this disintegrating Country.
As many of us thought, at this point we would be looking at a Country trying to unify and start putting people before Party. Instead we are seeing that everything we thought was bad is actually worse. As Nancy Pelosi states "the enemy is from within ", she is correct. I watch Biden doing his best to put the Nation in the proper direction, yet his every move is discounted and challenged by the GOP and the vitrol of the trumpers and most Republicans is overwhelming. This Nation reminds me of a boat with dry rot. Regardless of how presentable you try to make it, it's still a failed vessel.
Stay safe, stay well.
Simple idea: America is now divided into two camps - those who read widely and critically, those who don’t. Education system, especially civics study, has failed us.
It just doesn’t stop! And anyone sitting back thinking they can breathe again isn’t paying attention.