[ProtectOurFreedom]

Excellent essay by Mr.Kunstler. Thanks for posting.

I woke this morning thinking how none of this is normal, how everything is utterly insane, and how depressing and hopeless it all feels. Then Mr. Kunstler’s fine piece perfectly expressed what I was feeling. None of this is by accident or coincidence.

[Starboard]

The problem is that accountability is dead and there is no political will to restore it to any degree.

Corruption is too deeply embedded now and our culture largely accepts it.

[central_va]

These people are called anarchists and they have always been with us.

If you use AI it expresses anarchism as POSITIVE political movement!!

an·ar·chism

[ˈanərˌkizəm] noun

a political theory advocating the abolition of hierarchical government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion. anarchists as a political force or movement:

* "ruling-class fears of international anarchism during the 1890s"