2017 has been a wild ride so far. Our crazed president pushes the boundaries of sanity on a daily basis, and still, there is no outrage calling for his immediate ouster.
How can this be 2017 America? The rich don't just keep getting richer, they hope to annihilate the poor and struggling masses by removing health care, scrapping any oversight of the financial giants providing them unfettered freedom from the government regulations enacted to keep them honest and ethical. Just this week the health secretary was replaced because he declared gun violence a threat to public safety, a stance not favored by the NRA and therefore our puppet president.
The swamp is quickly drowning out any trace that we are a nation guided by that esteemed document, the U.S. Constitution. Lies, corruption and outright evil have taken its place. No more is there a slight memory of the "do the right thing" mentality. Pollution controls, protections of public land and providing a safety net for the disadvantaged citizens in our society have all been replaced with conflicts of interest, enrichment of the richest and deportation of those individuals that are a symbol of the ideals this country was built on. Opportunity for all and a guarantee that with hard work and determination, a successful, happy, healthful life was within reach of all.
This is how a dictatorship begins. Squelching your critics, creating chaos on a daily basis, and recruiting your friends and business associates to surround you in your bubble. Any dissenting opinionator is promptly dumped out on his/her ass. Trump resembles Putin and Kim Jung Un infinitely more than any prior U.S. President. God help us all to survive his presidency without a world wide nuclear catastrophe.
