TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Most of you are too young to remember my America: the country I loved and deserved my loyalty, respect, and trust. Sadly, that nation no longer exists, and I’m not sure if it will ever regain its position on the world’s stage. Humans are by far the weakest of all mammals. For the most part we are never happy with our personal situation. We want more, more, and more. We are also a lazy group. We look for someone else to do our work for us. John Adams: "Remember Democracy never lasts long". He further asserted that democracy "soon wastes exhausts and murders itself," and that "There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.” Abraham Lincoln: "if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide" Abraham Lincoln: “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Okay, don’t allow your emotions to override your intelligence and your logic. Think about my title and be honest about what is happening in today’s America. Our government is dysfunctional, not because the system is not workable, but because the men and women who are simply taking up space in Washington are incompetent, and refuse to listen to the needs and wishes of the majority. As far as the right to vote, just look at the results. In two out of the last three elections, the worst, least qualified, anti-American, fascist won although his victory was secured with the interference of the President of Russia. American voters are the least informed voters in the world. And while we’re discussing changing the way we elect our nation’s leaders, let’s include the Supreme Court. Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas have the intelligence of a dung beetle, and are five of the nine most powerful people in our country. Our nation has changed and the truth is fr...

Op-ed by TheWiseOLdFart In 2016 and 2024, Trump made many promises during his hate rallies. However, he has never kept a single one. In 2025, his focus is even more on himself and his wallet. Trump believes “what is good for him is good for the country.” From his violation of the law, using ICE as his personal gestapo, attempting genocide in America, to his failed and moronic military parade honoring his own birthday, Trump is an embarrassment to all other dictators past and present. Of course, this is what we should expect from a man with lower than average intelligence. No honest person can deny that Trump has become America’s first dictator, a Fuhrer. But this could not have happened without the assistance of a corrupt and biased Supreme Court. Proven by the absurd length of boring, self-serving speeches, Trump’s greatest pleasure is standing before his supporters and receiving undeserved adulation and loyalty. He is the living example of everyone inflicted with malignant narcissism...

Mentally healthy human beings don’t want to believe the worst about others. We would like to believe that what we see, hear, and read is at least partially true or even untrue, depending on the situation. Humans want to find a reason to forgive the mistakes, crimes, and heinous acts by others. We look for reasons; things in their past which brought out the worst in another person. I hate to tell you the absolute truth, but in most situations, this is psychiatric bullshit. We are all born with free thought and free choice. During our preteen and teenage years we have an opportunity to choose our friends, make decisions about what comes next, and search for the truth. I know no one in my generation who lived lives depicted by television shows like “Ozzie and Harriet,” “Father Knows Best,” or “the Donna Reed Show.” For the most part, post WWII children grew up in dysfunctional families. PTSD, changes in family structure created during the War, new opportunities for women in society, and a...

The damage is done, and it’s irreparable. I continue to find it unconscionable that Trump was allowed to wear the label of President of the United States for a second time. He has doubled down on the destruction of my America. Lawerence O’Donnell reports that a significant number of Trump’s most ardent supporters and independent voters who failed to vet Trump and his party, are turning against him. These ignorant men and women were warned that the plans contained in Project 2025 would harm them the most, but they ignored facts and accepted more lies from the worst old man in the world. “But the marginal voter who made Donald Trump, that swing voter who made Donald Trump president, has now turned against Donald Trump,” O’Donnell said. Okay, here’s what I don’t understand. Fact: Trump has failed to keep every campaign promise. Fact: Every action taken by Trump and Musk is destructive and removes some of the only working parts of our government. Fact: Trump is following the right-wing fas...

On January 20, 2025, the United States of America took its last breath. A country cannot exist without laws: laws which are equally applied to all of its citizens without exception. On January 20 of this year America’s most destructive convicted felon was sworn in as your president. In no other nation in the entire world would a man who committed treason on television for more than three hours be allowed to remain free. To allow him to run for the presidency was one of the greatest crimes in history and will go unpunished. The greatest dangers to America are entities which control our legal processes, and possess the responsibility to protect the Law of the Land, the Constitution. Both have been corrupted and are now members of the treasonous American Nazi Party which supports Trump and his anti-American supporters. The two most important positions in the Department of Justice are the Attorney General of the United States and the Director of the FBI. A little background about the two i...