It's Hard to Have Faith

It's hard to have faith that there will ever be accountability for the fifty-year slide into perdition brought to the American State by the Republican Party--since Nixon, nothing from them but thuggery, incompetence, criminality, malfeasance, misrepresentation and failure. 

I can't believe that these crooks still make a case for their catastrophic economic doctrines. And, in domestic and foreign affairs, they have proven once and for all that it's impossible to have coherent policies without moral underpinnings. Realism, they may call it. 

Or they can call it neo-liberalism or whatever rebranding emerges most recently from their think-tanks. Those institutions, funded by rich people, can never bring themselves, for the love of God, to recommend anything other than tax breaks for themselves and deregulation. 

And we are supposed to believe that these are independent, patriotic, altruistic, unbiased and intellectually honest operations without vested or conflicted interests. What rubbish this is--though, with a fifty-year history, the truth is in the catastrophic results. 

There's no need for analysis just look at the results. The tide rose for them and no one else. Nothing trickled down but their contempt. The richest country ever is in a constant state of war but can't afford to provide proper care for its citizens or environmental protections.

The real testimony to the excellence of our system, our good fortune, and the responsible living and hard work of previous generations is how much punishment our society has been able to be endure and absorb without collapse. But now we have Trump.

In no way is this incompetent and reprehensible person an outlier. He is entirely consistent with the progress of the Republicans since Nixon into an anti-party in full-blown revolt against our laws and traditions. Trumpism is Republicanism, an ethos of unbridled greed.