At left are the observations of Barbara McQuade, an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. As part of President Donald Trump’s 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys, she stepped down in March 2017.
I would say that she’s nailed this. Trump and his thugs are tearing this country to shreds. It will take decades to repair the damage–if it can be done at all.
There is a certain sense in which today’s version of America is a fair and just one. That is, this regime of hatred and stupidity is exactly what our voters asked for.
As much as decent people, here and around the globe, are sickened by what the United States has become, many of us accept that we live among people who are profoundly defective intellectually and morally, and that democracy has spoken.
It’s good to hear this from the lady at left. If nothing else, what she voices is the founding principle on which the foundation of America lies.
Of course, now we’re demanding that our schoolchildren learn in classrooms displaying the Ten Commandments and be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, affirming we are “one nation under God.”
250 years ago, our Founding Fathers explained very clearly why they created the U.S. Now, stupidity and power politics reign supreme.
This is illustrative of how screwed this country is. Tens of millions of us have no regard for the most obvious, provable facts shaping our lives.
Our president clearly tried to overthrow the federal government of the United States, and we eagerly offered him a second term in the White House.
Is there another country on Earth whose people believe that 2 + 2 = 5? If the French or the Japanese or the Bolivians were faced with overwhelming evidence that their president was a psychotic criminal, would they defend him–and then re-elect him?
Brazil finally figured out that their equivalent of Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, was a sociopathic felon, and sentenced him to 27 years in prison. Up here in the U.S., we seem to be entirely incapable of anything resembling criminal justice for our country’s wealthiest and most powerful people.
Trump is a gifted human being–in one sense only, but it’s an extremely important one.
He can speak to greedy people in a compelling way. But more importantly, he can address huge masses of unintelligent Americans in a way that is so convincing that his words seem to them to have come from Almighty God Himself.
As most of us know, the majority of Americans have liberal values: human rights, quality education, environmental responsibility, compassion for the oppressed, universal healthcare, and the use of science in informing public policy.
Now, we find ourselves at the mercy of a Republican-led congress. Will we see our country and its people torn apart by a would-be tyrant, so that a few Trump bootlickers can remain in office?
TBD.
Truly patriotic Americans base their political beliefs on the concepts that formed this nation, perhaps the most important of which was expressed by the second president of the United States.
Now, an open question remains: “What went so terribly wrong that could have wound us up in this horrific and apparently intractable position?”
The only conceivable answer is that the Founding Fathers never imagined that the American people could become so mean and stupid to elect an obvious criminal sociopath to lead them.
Historians rank Barack Obama in the top 10 U.S. presidents, and Trump at or near the bottom.
To most of the world, however, that is likely less interesting than how the two compare in terms of their lawfulness, willingness to stand up to the world’s tyrants, humanity, decency, intelligence, kindness, honesty, and capacity to lead a nation–as opposed to divide it.
Why would it be terrifying to learn that we are alone in the universe?
At this point in human civilization, I hope that we’re not visited by an alien species. We’re technologically advanced, but horribly backwards in terms of decency, kindness, and compassion. I’d be embarrassed to have to explain to an extraterrestrial being how we’ve done very little to help one another along.
As an American in particular, I’d have to reveal that we round up innocent people whose skin color differs from ours and send them off to be tortured and killed.
Americans are starting to get the impression the Trump era may be coming to an end.
Each day brings news of ever-growing lunacy.
As much respect as I have for Stephen King, I would offer a correction here, or perhaps an addendum.
Yes, Trump is an idiot, but what makes him so dangerous is his limitless desire for power, and his total ruthlessness and lawlessness.
