[a little elbow grease]

America has become a Potemkin village; all the trappings of a functioning government are in place, but they are hopelessly corrupt and rotten to the core.

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Ugh.

Your post caused me to look up Potempkin Village. I really did not know exactly what it meant.

I read, "..... Prince Potëmkin, who allegedly had villages of cardboard constructed for Catherine II's visit to the Ukraine and the Crimea in 1787."

--- I 'll bet the good Prince was praying for NO RAIN on those cardboard villages when Catherine II visited!

(When I want to get rid of a lot of cardboard boxes, etc. I squirt 'em with a hose, they get all soft and are easy to get rid of.)

'High Science' around here .....

:-)

[JonPreston]

I learned about the word when reading about the former USSR, the same country that Bernie chose for his honeymoon. Very fitting for his word view.