“Trump Will Not Be Mandating Anything to Me.” Or Will He?

This from a reader.  My response:

Well, I appreciate your bravado, but I question your understanding of the magnitude of the power that the U.S. federal government has over the common American.  Unless we make major changes quickly, you will live in a country that has:

• Committed to make rich people richer and poor people poorer, by looting the treasury to provide billionaires with ever larger tax advantages.

• Rejected science as the pillar in policymaking.

• Abandoned any pretense it may have had towards environmental responsibility.

• Sent women back to positions of inferiority.

I’m not saying that there is nothing you can do about this, but denial isn’t a road to a solution.