Trump: the projectile vomit of a sick society

Trump did not become president sui generis. He was nurtured for decades by a sick society. No later than the 80's the emerging billionaire class began its inexorable lust to fleece all wealth from middle class and further degrade the poor and powerless. Politicians were bought up like baseball trading cards. Congress became their flunkies to lower taxes, cut regulations, create slave labor from unsupportable wages, regardless of irreparable damage to a thriving society. The war party decreed perpetual war to bring endless profits getting millions killed, damaged or dispossessed far from our gaze. Glorification of the hired canon fodder fulfilling this mission became part of every public event. The media became corrupted and co-opted, either part of this mendacity or simply intimidated to never tell the truth. Education was reviled as it was underfunded. History in school simply became history. Is it any wonder Trump doesn't know Frederick Douglas is dead or that Andrew Jackson couldn't have prevented the civil war? Religion was used as a club to browbeat secularists seeking social progress and reinforce the utterly false greatness of American civilization. The greedy 1% continue their endless pursuit of endless wealth oblivious to the harm that will engulf them from a poisoned planet, crumbling infrastructure, drug and crime ravaged pockets of poverty that expand daily. A society that funnels much of its dwindling treasure on a bloated military that loses every criminal venture it launches is doomed to fall like every war obsessed empire in history.

Trump embodies every venal and self destructive impulse in our sick society. He gauged that spewing racism, Xenophobia, sexism and hate of government would promote his narcissist brand. Surprised that a fluke of the electoral process allowed a minority vote to propel him into the White House, Trump feverishly set out to unravel every sensible, decent and humane element remaining of our rapidly disappearing greatness. To keep the ignorant, fearful and hate filled base satiated he holds vile rallies reminiscent of small scale Nurembergs, coating the faithful with the regurgitation of the plague affecting us all.

We of good will must arise every day, wipe off the slime Trump heaped upon us yesterday and resist, resist, resist.