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JustPlainBill's avatar

Everything cataloged in this piece is emblematic of the now rapidly increasing disintegration of our society. Each of them is an individual, but perhaps even more depressing are the outrages that the stewards of our society continue to visit on us almost daily. This was the second piece I read this morning; the first was a brief blog piece on yesterday's Trump "trial" verdict. It's just "o-dark-thirty" here and we're already off to the races, doom-scrolling away.

You say that "installing Biden as prez was a grand joke." To me it was just an earlier installment of which the Trump trial was the latest.. Every day I see Biden blathering on, the mental image that arises is of a giant TV screen with a hand giving us the finger and saying "Ya don't like it? Whattaya gonna do abouddit?"

Figuring out whether what we are experiencing is a drastic failure of leadership, or the late symptoms of a breakdown in the national character is like trying to figure out which came first, the chicken or the egg. Perhaps we are just getting the government we deserve?

My own reaction to the Trump circus favors the second choice. However corrupt, incompetent, or blindly partisan the judge was, it took 12 jurors to seal the deal, and not even one of them would stand up for sanity. They picked their venue well--whether it is the election of a horrible politician (e.g., Hillary, AOC) or returning outrageous verdicts, finding 12 idiots in New York to do it is easier than finding 12 Mexicans in Tijuana.

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Jon Orton's avatar

A mere heart shaped 'like' doesn't do justice to the emotion I feel while reading your log of America's descent through the nine circles of hell. A thumbnail of Munch's 'The Scream' might do the job.

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