The United States of America is Bleeding Out … Rapidly

Why Is He-Who-Thinks-He Must-Be-Obeyed Doing It?

“Nobody’s ever seen anything like it!”

That is one of his favorite boasts. Unlike almost everything else he says, this one is true.

If someone set out to destroy the United States and bring to an end the American Experiment begun, as Lincoln would put it, twelve score and nine years ago by creating a “nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” in which the people are the rulers, not the ruled, what would he do?

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Lie boldly, shamelessly, and constantly about everything.

Divide the people into bitterly opposed factions. Preach hate, division, and revenge.

Destroy an economy that has been the envy of the world.

Destroy the liberty with responsibility that has drawn people from around the world to our country.

Pardon and free from prison insurrectionist thugs who tried to overturn an election and end the Republic for the Leader so they can become the nucleus of a force of paramilitary gangs at the disposal of the Leader.

By that immediate release and pardon of violent goons, dubbing them “patriots,” give the signal to others that using violence against the Leader’s opponents is not simply tolerated, but encouraged.

Block members of Congress in the Leader’s party from opposing the approval of any appointees, no matter how unqualified and even absurd, or any of his actions, no matter how outrageous, counterproductive, illegal and/or unconstitutional, by leaving them in fear that they or their families may be attacked or killed for such loyalty to America, the law, and the Constitution, rather than to the Leader.

Steal all the personal information of every American.

Tell the people that he is their protector and savior while caring not at all for them and working only to advance himself and the hyper rich and harm the “losers.”

Convince white men that their problems are caused by women and people of color, and LGBTQ people, not corporations, billionaires, and an unfair tax system.

Encourage police brutality.

Undermine veterans’ benefits.

Accuse political opponents of everything that he is doing himself.

Engage in corruption and self-enrichment on a level never before imagined.

Destroy a system of higher education that has long been the envy of the world.

Eliminate all checks and balances on The Leader’s power to rule by decree.

Undermine the judicial system.

Place the Leader above the law.

Under the guise of cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse,” put a man who believes that empathy is the enemy of civilization in charge of slashing and destroying all government agencies that provide essential services to the people.

Ban books that do not support the Party Line.

Erase inconvenient historical facts and replace them with feel good lies that support the objectives of the regime.

Put incompetent, corrupt sycophants in charge of government agencies with a mandate to destroy the public services those agencies provide.

Destroy the international alliances that have preserved freedom since the end of World War II.

Attack democracies and side with dictators around the world.

Place people with no loyalty to the United States or experience in Intelligence in charge of National Intelligence.

Destroy the freedom of speech, media, assembly, religion and the protections against arbitrary government actions against individuals that have been a model to other nations.

Destroy the medical research that has led to huge improvements in health and longevity here and around the world.

Destroy other scientific research that has led the world.

Remove checks on corporate malfeasance, consumer protection, environmental protection, and assurance of the safety of foods and drugs.

Intimidate leading law firms, media companies, and universities into doing the bidding of the Leader.

Weaken air safety, the weather service, and disaster aid.

Pass legislation preventing courts from holding the Leader or his minions in contempt when they disobey injunctions against their unconstitutional or unlawful actions.

Institute numerous plans to prevent people from voting.

Encourage rightwing white people to immigrate but block all others.

Put into practice the motto of the 1868 Democratic presidential campaign:

Turn the American Dream into an American Nightmare for everyone but the fabulously wealthy oligarchs who please the Leader.

Why would someone do this intentionally? A meme from his first term showed an image of him with Putin and said, “Once you accept that he isn’t on our side, everything he does makes sense.” Occam’s Razor points toward that answer. Much of what he has done since his trip to Moscow in the late 1980s fits with the argument that he is a Russian asset. Is there, after all, almost anything he is doing that differs from what Vladimir Putin would want a Muscovite Candidate in the American presidency to do?

He has, at the least, been acting as a useful idiot for the Russian dictator. But he clearly agrees that “Greed Is Good,” and a bit of dialogue from the 1987 Oliver Stone film, Wall Street, comes to mind:

BUD: Why do you need to wreck this company?

GEKKO: Because it's wreckable.

The man who is overseeing the wrecking—the rapid bleeding out—of America is a malignant narcissist and a nihilist. He loves no one, including himself, is acutely insecure about his masculinity, and wants everyone to be beholden to him. While he has posed as someone who constructs, he revels in destruction. He wants to be the “winner” and what bigger win could he hope to have than the final destruction of “the last best hope of earth"?

He could boast, “Nobody’s ever done this before—not even Hitler! I am the all-time biggest winner in destroying good!”

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Whatever the motive, what he is doing will achieve one of his objectives: stopping the flood of immigrants into the United States.

I am reminded of my favorite story from the twenty tours I led to Cuba from 2011 to 2018. It must have been in 2017. We were on a minibus somewhere southeast of Havana, probably about five days into the trip. Immigration and building “the Wall” had become an issue in the United States and one of those in the group asked our guide about immigration in Cuba. The guide assumed the question was about migration from the countryside into Havana and began to discuss that. “No, I’m asking about immigration,” the Norte Americano explained. The guide again spoke about internal migration in Cuba. My traveler persisted. “No, I mean people coming from other countries to live in Cuba.” The guide was dumbfounded.

“Who would want to live in Cuba?” he asked incredulously.

If the current bloodletter-in-chief succeeds, there will be no need for a wall. He will have made the United States a place where no one wants to live.

“Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.”