A Sure Bet on Degradation

I have and will put money on it. Republicans are going to destroy everything. I put money on it before and won but nobody noticed. The noise of the destruction was too great. This was under Bush. Bush destroyed everything he touched and there was no accountability. 

We hired Obama and carried on but the message was there. Republicans will not be held accountable. Voilà: the system coughs up Trump, irresponsibility personified. This sort of thing occurred after the Civil War when a worn-out country chose not to insist on justice.

The South retreated into institutionalized injustice and rationalized immorality, making their deal with the devil. Finally, in the 1960's, attempts at restitution were enforced over the resistance of the degraded white population of the South. Again, these attempts failed.

Racism is a tough one. The Republican Party then made its deal with the devil. They sold their souls for electoral victories by playing the race card. Southern votes streamed in and Republicans now run everything, as they have increasingly since the days of Nixon. 

It culminates in Trump, the end point of their deliberate, destructive dysfunction. He is not an outlier or an aberration but the result of the determined will of a minority victorious through leverage and manipulation. It is not democracy or decency but the end of both.