[Standing Wolf]

In the end, this isn't merely about the current occupant of the White House. It is about the inevitability of the use of totalitarian power by a government unchecked either by Congressional oversight, or media watchdogs.

You're entirely correct, newheart, but I think you left out an important item: there's a Supreme Court that's devolved into a rubber stamp just like Congress and the once free press. Except in name, there's only one "branch" of the national government.

[newheart]

I think you left out an important item: there's a Supreme Court that's devolved into a rubber stamp just like Congress and the once free press.

I stand—or rather sit, to be more accurate—corrected.