Imagine if you’d gone into a coma about this time of year in 2016 and woke up now. What a shock that would be. Trump actually won? Hillary is now an aging grandma writing books? We have camo wearing Federal Jack Booted Thugs patrolling the streets of our cities with unmarked rented vans from Enterprise battling against anti-Police violence protesters.
Lootings. Riots. Flash-bangs. Tear gas.
We have a global pandemic that has ravaged the nation while most of the rest of the world has survived and surpassed it. 144,000 Americans have died, and yet we hardly respond and react to the loss. The dead are being piled up in mobile refrigerated trucks. It’s the equivalent of our losses during 9-11 times 41, and counting. Yet we hardly blink. We’ve become acclimated to the decimation.
We have concentration camps filled with asylum seeking immigrants, and their children which have been stolen from them — and which are being also ravaged by the deadly viral outbreak, as are our jails.
Russia and Russian-friendly Ukrainians seem to be in control of half our media, filling it with crazed loop-de-loop Qanon-ish conspiracy theories. Hordes of Americans refuse to wear masks to contain the contagion, they stage protests claiming their constitutional “freedom” to spread sickness and death has been violated, they go out and have “CoronaVirus Parties” deliberately exposing themselves to a deadly plague purely out of spite. It is literally batshit insane.
And meanwhile grift, graft, corruption and general incompetence seems have established a potentially permanent chokehold on our government.
We could hardly imagine things might get worse, but they just might.
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