Trump is the Anti-Eisenhower

Trump is the Anti-Eisenhower.

We once had a brave man who led by example, served his country, built up our infrastructure, and taxed the rich. He enforced the Constitution, protected civil rights, executed the decisions of the Supreme Court, and despite a lifetime career in the military, warned us of the dangers of its overreach.

And I would bet half my portfolio that he did not frenetically cheat on his wife, assault women and girls, cheat on his taxes, collude with the Russians, and call women 'Horseface' and 'Pocahontas' in public or private, much less perform the 1001 embarrassments we have endured in only two years.

I was born in the 50's, so I have watched my country fall from The Great Anti-Fascist Hero to the Monstrous Fascist Anti-Hero who serves, and serves sadistically, only Mammon.

And I have watched the Greatest Generation, some great liberals, some great conservatives, descend into this anti-fact, anti-reason, incoherent, sadistic blood mob, hooting like angry chimps when anyone dares stand in their way. When women came forward crying out about the abomination of a man who hurt them, this sadistic mob attacked those women and those who supported them and despite his falsified appointment to the Court are MORE inclined to vote GOP to punish those who would dare ask for justice from the Grotesque Old Patriarchy.

My generation is the Anti-Merlin, converting gold into dreck.

I have to accept that as Pogo said, rephrasing Commodore Perry, we have met the enemy and he is us.

The US is now the existential threat, the cancer that will kill humankind. Cancer of the wallet — and we must be excised from the human body before we kill off every human being on the planet.

The international community needs to ostracize any nation that does not commit to the Paris Accords and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. No trade, no treaties, no travel. Starve us into submission until we repent and place our leadership into the hands of sane and decent people and commit to trying to avert ecological collapse before it is too late. We can’t clone Eisenhower in time, so like Diogenes we must set off in search of one honest person to lead us out of this darkness.