The Great Cleansing continues.
Many of us never thought we would ever have such in the USA, but the Libs found a way. Sadly, they are getting Republican politicians to do the cleansing in many states/counties/cities.
Many decried alQaeda and ISIS and the Taliban tearing down historic structures and statues. Many of those same criers are the ones behind this Great Cleansing in the USA.
IIRC, the Orwellian classic 1984 showed an entire government department that existed for the purpose of constantly rewriting history. A half-century ago, many of us sneered at that ever happening. Today, not so much.
It would be interesting to see if history has anything so say about this Great Cleansing a century from now. And we continue to wonder how great civilizations rose and fell.
The GOP is dysfunctional and without hope. Bush#1 was torpedoed by Ross Perot. The legislative branch version of that fiasco is in the offing, and there will be some serious slaughter in the midterms.
Whether it's for the worse, who's to say. In general, save for a meager handful, most of the GOP isn't worth "a bucket of warm piss".
"It would be interesting to see if history has anything so say about this Great Cleansing a century from now. And we continue to wonder how great civilizations rose and fell."
Back in the 1970s, my father's brother, a brilliant, visionary man told me that the U.S.A. would one day go the way of the Roman Empire.
I believed him, but I could not imagine how that could come about, and I thought it only some time in the very distant future.
Then during the Jimmy Carter Administration, I began to worry about it. I bought Gibbon's monumental and magnificent The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and read it.
I realized that the Decline and Fall of the U.S.A. could happen far sooner than I had imagined, but I still couldn't imagine how it could come about, considering the great moral and cultural strength of the American Heartland and of the American Dream itself.
Unfortunately, I now understand all too well just how such a horrifying event can unfold.
Even then, I didn't exactly realize that the counter-culture movement of the 1960s was the eruption into the open of decadence in America, the same moral rot and decay that destroyed the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire--or that it would gain adherents as it did. I did wonder what would happen when the counter-culture hippies took over American institutions. I now know. The counter-culture was moral rot and decay. When its adherents took over American institutions, those institutions would become utterly corrupted.
When moral rot and decay have infected such venerable institutions as the FBI, the Judiciary, the military high command, and the U.S. Congress, even a leader as brilliant, energetic, visionary, and dedicated as President Trump might not be able to cleanse them and reverse the decadence.
It is the moral rot and decay and those afflicted with it that are opposing and seeking to destroy this heroic man.
Those afflicted are so afflicted that they cannot understand the evil that afflicts them.
Overwhelmed by the evil and delusions of decadence--and trapped in them--they see him who would rescue them and the American Dream as evil--or psychotic--or somehow misguided--but they cannot see the evil that subsumes them or the goodness of the hero who would save them. Theirs is truly an inverted view.
It is very much like heroin addicts, unable to understand the depth, strength, and disorientation of their addiction, fighting against those who intervene to save them and their families.
President Trump needs all the help and support he can get--from all decent and benevolent people.
America is threatened by evil and destruction as never before.
President Trump has dedicated himself and all his formidable resources to saving her. He need our support, our prayers, and then some!
Same thing, same with the Nazis and others down through history.
And now the same thing is happening in the U.S.