I paused to watch some of last night's debate, which was not nearly as remarkable as the ongoing hue and cry about how ugly the campaign is and how terrible both candidates are. As more information comes out about the depravity of these people, the more I take heart because I realize that it has become impossible for Americans to pretend that things are just hunky dory.
For a long time I've understood and written about how America is in serious trouble. The Constitution is dead, as the government and its judges claim sole authority to "interpret" (i.e., remake) it so as to grant themselves unbridled power to tax, spend, regulate, wage war, and thrust foreign invaders into our midst. Having grown too lazy and irresponsible to care about any of this, most Americans went about their hedonistic lives and smugly told themselves they were good citizens by trudging to the polls every couple of years, even shaming those few of us who are conscious and conscientious enough to know the system is garbage and not worthy of our participation.
That charade is over. If the system is garbage, it needs to be publicly recognized as garbage rather than dressed up as something noble. I can think of no better way of achieving this than having a chief executive who himself/herself is garbage. My entire life I've dealt with people who are in deep denial and hate me for speaking truth that they wish to avoid; now the truth is unavoidable. Let the stench reach the heavens and motivate as many people as possible to stop relying on the system to coddle them and, instead, reclaim their rights and responsibilities.
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