This will be a more speculative post, in comparison with the hardened facts of Republican incompetence and degeneracy about which I usually write. I think Republicans are cashing out on the American dream. At some level, they believe that America is going ENRON. They are taking us there.
Look at the startling consistency with which Trump’s cabinet appointments and others of his officials behave as though there is no tomorrow, milking and bilking their way through their jobs, not giving a rat’s rectum about how obviously criminal and crooked they are. I think they’re cashing out.
They’re cashing out before the crash. The lesson of the last fiasco they created, in 2008, was that there would be no accountability. In fact, the only people they care about, the really rich, came out ahead. Average Americans got shafted. They are still being shafted. This is what Republicans do.
And it applies in non-financial matters, all the way up the line. The system is being rigged to GUARANTEE there will be no accounting no matter what they do, by packing the courts with thieves, ideologues, hacks and extremists. They are locking everything down for the big, explosive end.
It will probably be more of an implosion, now that I think about it. No matter. And I don’t think there’s anything we can do about it.
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