Haunted by Disappointment

Perhaps there were times in U.S. history when government failed the people in a way that was not too different from what we have today.  I heard recently that the robber-barons of the late 19th Century were so corrupt that they essentially owned the presidency and congress.

Having said that, no Americans alive today have ever experienced anything like having Donald Trump in the White House, with his cronies in cabinet positions, with four long years to take battering rams to women’s rights, our healthcare system, national defense, education, and environment. If anyone thought there was any fairness in the justice system as it applies to rich people, as Dante said, “abandon hope all ye who enter here.”

As I explained to my mom on the phone the other evening, roughly half of this country walks around in a state of deep disappointment in the abject failure on the part of 76 million of their countrymen to apply basic moral reasoning at the voting booth.