Of the people, by the people and for the people. Americans have traditionally liked to think they have just such a government. They are taught that such a government is the kind of government the U.S. has. They are taught it is a good form of government. Some say the best. The concept of a government that exists to benefit the people is referred to in the nation's historical documents as being centrally important to the reason for having a government. The absence of such a government was given as the reason for having a revolution. Which is what happened and why Americans like to say the U.S. is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people today.
Today, as the entire world knows, America is a mess. Our Interstate highway systems are crumbling as we drive over them. Social discord due to the lack of economic opportunity fills the streets of major cities. The mishandling of the COVID-19 Pandemic from the get go by Donald Trump himself has lead to over 140K dead Americans. The fears generated by the failure of our supply chains for goods and services coupled with the threat of dying and the knowledge that our leadership has no idea how or what to do has made Americans 'edgy'. More disconcerting it also makes some Americans dangerous. Combine those failures with the fact that the lack of healthcare, the lack of employment and housing are all handing society their bills at once. In other words the chickens have come home to roost.
Major cities like Portland, Oregon (highlighted link to The Humanist Report a Portland based forward thinking news outlet.) and Seattle, Washington have produced conditions so intolerable the residents of those cities have finally risen up demanding an end to the horror show life on American streets has become. America is definitely not the home of a contented, happy populace. America is seething with anger and angst.
The state of American society is testimony to the effect the Presidency of Donald Trump has had. Would it have been worse if he had weighted us with chains and dropped us in the river?
Since his Presidency began the spirit of the American People has been sabotaged by, among other things, the President's divisive rhetoric and outrageous support for Confederate traitors from the past and present day hate movements generally held in low esteem, at least in theory. But since the advent of the Trump Presidency that theory is disregarded and Confederate traitors are praised and hate movements have been spoken warmly of on center stage by Donald Trump.
Today Americans still say their government is a government of the people by the people and for the people. However if one were to step back and look at the state of society which their so called government of the people, by the people and for the people has produced one would conclude that the theory can only be correct if Americans hate themselves and are using their government to punish themselves.
American social conditions are projections of the conditions produced in society by the donations from the corporate donor class to Republican and Democratic lawmakers. The vast majority of legislation is legislation to favor the small non-voting bloc of the corporate donor class. A very small amount of concern is evident to produce legislation to benefit the voting class of human beings and the things important to them. If this is a government of the people, by the people and for the people why are we doing this to ourselves? If this is NOT a government of the people, by the people and for the people what course of action should the people take?
The result of the intolerable conditions facing Americans is that finally The People around the United States have begun speaking out in a public manner and President Trump doesn't like it. To some observers it appears the President is preparing to take away the civil liberties of all Americans in order to shut them up. His disgust for Democratically administered cities has been repeated until you get sick hearing him say it. I'm hard pressed to think of one honorable thing the man has done since becoming leader of the Free World.
Americans need all your prayers and more than that, we need a miracle. The Trump Administration has been like a sucker punch to the electorate. His messing with the justice system should have set the alarm bells off a long time ago. But the donor class was cashing in and nothing gets in their way of having a good time if Trump can help it. He's been their faithful lackey. He and his Party as well as the Democrats show every indication that if we the people get in their way we're gonna suffer for it.
Have a nice day!
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