The chasm between the moderate Democrats and progressives seems to have grown significantly in the past couple of weeks, while the grey area between the moderate Democrats and the Republicans has become fuzzier. I know the name-calling and vilifying goes both ways between moderates and progressives so I’m not pissed about that. I’m pissed because so many people see Trump as the disease instead of the symptom.
I see our Democrats and Republicans as a couple who have been engaging in very dangerous sexual liaisons, resulting in the country being politically syphilitic, with Trump simply being the largest syphilitic sore on the anus of the country (so far).
But rather than try to cure, or even contain, the disease, we are fixated on that one great big sore on our anus, completely neglecting the disease and all of the other sores.
We have been heading in the wrong direction as a country for decades, gradually accelerating over the past 30 years (Reagan, Dubya, Trump) and it seems that right now, the best we can hope for is to slightly decrease that acceleration, since we don’t have the guts to actually do the difficult thing: admit we have a problem, get help, get healthy, and get turned around.
Until then we continue in the wrong direction, but just at a different speed.
