With the clocking ticking away until a madman is at the controls of a nuclear arsenal that can incinerate millions in seconds, I have come to the conclusion the American system of government has failed.
Giant nation states were never a good idea but were foisted upon us by the supra-wealthy who wanted huge armies to steal more wealth from their neighbors. The American founders tried to somewhat make that theft more democratic but we still built an empire anyway.
And now we have a nuclear madman taking the controls. No vaunted “free press” could stop him, no democratically elected leaders, no checks and balances, no nothing… If anything the system only fed his election chances.
This is FAILURE of the American system of government to protect and serve its people. That created a cancer called the modern Republican Party and right-wing media that spewed propaganda for 30 years to enable the rise of this monster.
The first sign of the system’s massive dysfunction was to not reasonably address the very real threat of climate change due to the excesses of the industrial age.
But this threat is much more immediate.
I have ideas what could take the place of these stupid-ass nation states that do nothing but serve and protect the wealthy and that put all of us at risk, but I’m sure all are unworkable and overly idealistic.
Lord help us all — or at least the folks who didn’t vote for this feckless lunatic.
PS. And I LOVE the way everyone reports Trump’s INSANE nuclear comments, then the treasonous praise of the letter from Putin, then goes on reporting on the TRIVIA of his cabinet choices, Ivanka’s plane incident, etc.
WE’RE AT DEFCON 1 FOLKS.