Opinion/Editorial
DELIBERATE DILAPIDATION
The roads across and inside of all of America are cracked, broken, and falling apart, along with the many bridges. The rail system is so fragmented and minimized as to make it nearly non-existent. Commercial flight is miserably uncomfortable, embarrassing, and downright scary. The news media is almost entirely sold out to the right wing now, with Ellison, far far-right billionaire crank, buying what’s left.
The figures for the economy are all bad and growing worse day by day as the huge bite of the tariffs is shifted down to the regular population. Russia continues to kill in Ukraine and attacks Poland, as predicted by so many. The Gaza holocaust continues under dictator Netanyahu. Former friends like South Korea, Canada, Greenland, Qatar, and Mexico are friends no more.
President Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine within twenty-four hours of his new presidency. He promised peace in Gaza and the return of the hostages. He promised that the economy would take off under his leadership. None of those things has taken place, yet the mass media and the damaged MAGA followers don’t care or believe it. The country’s treasurer assured the nation a few days ago that the President would own the economy by the first of the year. How is it that this absolute mess of a country, having gotten that way in only two hundred days since Trump took office, has no credibility of reporting or presentation whatsoever?
How is it that the nation’s military will not refuse to obey blatantly illegal orders? How is it that ICE agents can wear masks and completely hide their identities? How is it that the Supreme Court continues to rubber-stamp everything this demented President demands? Is the country simply cowering in fear from this bruised, bloated, and mean-spirited person? A man who’s never been in a fight in his life but chooses to use the bully tactics of a sadistic, vengeful child.
The positively horrid speeches that Charlie used to give, that Musk continues to give, and Trump gives every day have been and are made and not countered or even criticized because of this deliberate dilapidation of the country. Fragmentation and confusion roll like storm waves across the nation, and with no mass media to any longer point things out or moderate or even attempt to discuss the lies being told over and over again, what can the result down the road be?
ICE creatures are being brought out of the nation’s ooze to train of ensure that soon all members of the citizenry, not just immigrants or people from foreign countries here on legal visas, will be required to carry papers on them, not just driver’s licenses, but passports, birth certificates, and more wherever they are or travel in the USA. The President is being allowed to declare states of emergency across the land (only in democratic strongholds) without criticism whatsoever, and in those areas, all the protections promised by the Constitution are suspended. Meanwhile, in homes, apartments, tenements, offices, and almost everywhere else in the entire USA, the citizenry goes on like everything is going to be alright.
There are a few places one can go to get any help in understanding what is happening, much less what can be done about it. Even the editorials in such places as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, all formerly intensely credible and bastions of integrity, are now tepid backwater sources of nearly nothing. Instead, the nation, particularly the young, were delivered a youngster, barely getting through high school, falling out of junior college after one semester, never serving in the military, having a private security force, living in a lavish multi-million-dollar mansion in Arizona, and delivering speeches very likely written by Harlan Elision, the very same billionaire buying up the remainder of the mass media. Go on the Internet and check this all out for yourself. What is wrong with this entire picture?
