America is a sick society

[Eric the Green]

Make no mistake about this. We now live in a society where 45% of the voting public want to overthrow our republic and empower a dictator, and disempower the congress that represents them. They want to impose upon us a fanatical, lying, scumbag dictator, because they are HOOKED on ideologies of hate and priviledge. They feel entitled to a Ronald Reagan clone in office; in fact, they want to keep a lying con-man shitface in office because he caters and panders to the conspiracy theories that they hold. 45% of the American people ARE truly deplorable. They "approve" of Trump's job performance. AND, they hold a much-lower and much MORE insulting opinion of we the 52% who don't approve, and threaten violence against us.

This Trump job performance consists in willful, categorical defiance of all congressional subpoenas, without which the people and the congress have no way to hold him accountable for the abuses of power which he demonstrably made. It consists in the use of his power to promote his own fortunes in elections without regard for the needs of national defense, American democracy, or legally-approved foreign policy. It consists of deliberate ignorance of science that proves that our country and world is in danger if it continues to rely on fossil fuels. It consists of deliberate stoking of racial hatreds to the point that hate crimes increase wherever he has spoken. It consists of deliberate policies to take away our rights, to swell our national debt, and to weaken protections against the rampant greedy behavior that threatens the lives of all Americans.

There is no precedent at all for this president's conduct. All previous presidents have recognized the right and proper role of the congress to oversee his conduct. He has placed himself above the law to a far greater extent than even Nixon, who turned over all requested information except the white house tapes (because he knew they contained the "smoking gun"). But the supreme court ruled unanimously that he must turn them over. Today's supreme court might not do this, because at least 4 and maybe 5 of its justices are beholden to the mad 45% of the people who are determined to overthrow our democracy and replace it with an empowered oligarchy whose leaders operate without any restraint except "the market." Our Senate will not remove Trump from office because it is beholden to the mad 45% and the money powers that support them.

Classic Xer and John Xenakis are representatives of this mad 45% here, and I don't mind at all that they post and discuss here. Without them we have no awareness of what the 45% say and believe, and we get no practice here in how to refute or oppose what they write. We always have adversaries in life that make us stronger.