Soul Sacrifice

With a Trump presidency now assured soul-selling in America has reached critical mass. The only argument to be made to dull the blow is not about Trump--his personal attributes are apparent--but to rewrite our past and redefine ourselves, formally, as a country of losers, idiots and evil-doers. 

The Bush presidencies now seem to be something different, the voices crying from the sticks and weeds heralding the age of political hacks, to culminate in Trump, who is not Machiavellian but a pig and a crook of epic aspect. Reagan was a marketer of fantasy and Nixon the original soul sell-out.

Where did we go wrong and where do we draw that line? When was the beginning of our end? It's not so dramatic--but more dramatic than we thought. The failure was accomplished by the idea that the ends justified the means and that only one of our political parties was fit to rule. The rest followed.