Thursday, December 14, 2017                                         3:13 PM

Gore Builds It—Trump Breaks It (and not in that good way)  (2017Dec14)

I’ve been upset—I’ve been angry. It wasn’t until today that the core problem hit me—I’m heartbroken. I love truth, knowledge, fairness, and justice—the things Trump and all Republicans spurn with lip-service, and the things they work so hard to circumvent. I love precision and accuracy, discussion and consideration, triple-back-up safeties, and plans that scale for both short-term and long-term—the things ‘businesspeople’ consider a waste of time and money.

These people have substituted pomposity for real dignity for far too long—they have become so comfortable with twisting the truth, they’ve begun to manufacture it out of whole cloth. Today, they are simultaneously attempting to tax the poor to help the rich (and increase the debt to help the rich even more) while demolishing net-neutrality regulations, enabling ISPs to enrich themselves on the corpse of digital free speech. Cherry on top: Trump decides he’s going to renege on every safety or quality-control regulation enacted since the 1960s—just today—he thought it’d be a great idea. (Who am I kidding? ‘He thought’? What a knee-slapper.)

That’s a banner day in the age of Republican secession from decency. Is it possible that the plutocrats are using the votes of the lower third of the national intellect—to bind the rest of us, helplessly awake while the GOP harvests our organs for re-sale? I’ve said it before: Putin and his fat-cat cronies are bit players in the enslavement of the masses—the USA has always had the best Capitalist pigs. Who do you think finances garbage like Breitbart or Bannon or that delirious drug-addict on the radio—the one that’s a cheerleader for despair and distrust? Whatever.

Just compare the education stats to the Trump support—it’s right there in black and white (for those of us who can read). How else do we compare a career civil-servant to a spoiled-bitch, fraudulent serial-accoster-of-women—and come out with ‘Hillary is the bad guy’? Putin’s thugs were in the mix, but they were just extra sauce.

The super-wealthy have hacked democracy—empower the lower third of the intellects—to give their idiocy equal weight to serious thought or complex reasoning—and amid the upheaval, truth becomes moot. Thus we have, as president, a man I wouldn’t trust with a kindergarten classroom—a man whom I know to be more ignorant than myself (a first for me—and for presidents).

My heart breaks for the end of America’s dignity and self-confidence. At this point, even after Trump is ejected, the United States will have to face its citizens, its voters, and the other peoples and nations of the world—and our government will have to try to convince people that something like that can never happen again. Then we will all have to hope like hell that it’s true.