“Never Let the Unacceptable Become Acceptable” — Good Advice, but I Have Bad News

I hate to say it, but this is what we do all day long in the United States.

We didn’t just jump from the sanity and intellectual distinction of the Obama presidency into where we are now:

• On the verge of re-electing a president who is a pathological liar, was impeached twice, committed fraud, extortion, witness intimidation, election tampering, seditious conspiracy, and stole top secret documents.

• Banning hundreds of books that well-educated American schoolchildren have been reading for generations.

• Overturning Roe v. Wade and banning abortion in many states.

• Destroying our education system, installing an Education Secretary whose overt mission was to crush public schools into impoverishment to forward her dreams of parochial and charter schools, as well as, home schooling.

• Trying to resuscitate the coal industry and extending the reign of fossil fuels in general, as scientists’ predictions for our climate future become even more grim.

Again, none of this just fell out of the sky; it’s been slowly building.  Every time Trump got away with a crime, he became that much more emboldened to commit an even greater one.

Where this is going to go from here is anybody’s guess.  It doesn’t look good, because there doesn’t appear to be a lower limit.  Each atrocity ushers in the next in order. Wish I had better news to report.