We are at war. Just like everything else, more & more, it is being conducted on the internet.
Putin is winning handily. Everything Trump does makes perfect sense if you see it from the perspective of ‘will Putin like it?’.
And the ultimate thing Putin would like is to own America.
There’z a line in the Pink Floyd song, Sheep: “That’s what you get for pretending the danger’s not real.”
The Republicans decided a long time ago that party loyalty supercedes their patriotism and any oaths they made to serve their constituents and The Nation.
This can be attributed to an aspect of human nature that was summed up by SiMaN (a fictional character) : “An idiot, after defeating his adversaries and securing his position, will immediately begin the project of destroying himself.”
The feeling of safety after America won the cold war (debatable that it really ended, I know) may be a good point to mark the beginning of Step 1 for civil war. The Republicans, believing there was nothing to fear from external forces, embarked on a no-holds-barred offensive to grab power and vanquish the ‘enemy’ Democrats. In particular, their campaign to amass an army of voters and citizen activists went for the easy meat — idiots. Gullibles, or bleevrz, who believe anything they are told without question, as long as it’s what they want to hear. And it’s not hard over a period of years to shape what they want to hear when your propaganda arm can operate unimpeded by anything like the Fairness Doctrine (Thanks again, Saint Reagan!).
They have their army. The Nation is divided.
Step 2, collusion with Russia, is well underway. Trump is widening the divisions at every opportunity.
We are ripe for civil war. Is there a Step 3 before it begins, or will it only take some action against Trump to ignite?
The Republican Party appears to be self destructing, like the above mentioned idiot-victor, but will they bring down America in the process?
Will America be the ultimate idiot?
Don’t pretend the danger’s not real.