TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart The truth: the American people have not had an effective and caring government since 1981. Under the Reagan administration, the government created by our Founding Fathers between 1787 and 1789 became nothing but a memory. The idea of a “Democratic Republic,” where sincere deliberation and compromise solved many of our nation’s problems, simply disappeared. What was a two-party system ceased to exist. Democrats and Republicans barely spoke to each other. The focus shifted from the people to winning elections and maintaining power. The situation is far worse today than anyone could have imagined. In 2017 it was very clear that one of Trump’s primary goals, agreed upon between him and his Russian puppeteer, was to divide our nation’s people and our government to a level not seen since the Civil War. “Divide and conquer” is Trump’s administration’s mantra. What began 38 years ago was complete. What hasn’t happened in those 38 years is a travesty. The same problems w...

The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of our federal government are completely dysfunctional and the situation is irreparable. Our military is useless. It is the largest and most expensive in the world, but hasn’t won a war since WWII. It was unwilling to protect our legislative branch from a violent insurrection, organized, planned, and executed by your illegitimate president. All of these complete failures continue to allow Trump to violate the Constitution every day, and commit the most egregious crimes in American history. In addition to violating the Emoluments Clause, he is holding America’s institutions of higher learning, the Department of Justice, and agencies whose only purpose is to expose government fraud hostage until they comply with his demands. Only in the story of America does a schoolyard bully win against all odds. Our “leaders” are cowards, frauds, and hypocrites. Next Sunday, June 15 th , and although he has no authority to demand their cooperation, Tru...

I am a 78-year-old man who is loyal to his country, a man who opposes organized religion, a liberal, meaning I care about others as much as I care about myself, but I do not trust anyone in my government. In fact, I trust no one who is in a position of power, and that includes Trump’s oligarchs/billionaires. It took four decades for me to learn to see the undeniable truth. If you trust Trump, you would have trusted Hitler in 1930’s Germany. Trump uses the same tactics, and they are effective either because Americans are stupid, or because they share his hatred of freedoms, including free thought and the right to do anything which does not infringe upon the rights of others. If you are one of the few adamant supporters of the worst traitor in America’s history, you are undoubtedly a white supremacist and a regressive who wants America to return to “the dark old days.” Since the death of the greatest President in American history in 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our nation began to de...