It may be being destroyed or problems continuing to be escalated, but it has been all of my life since grade school, as I see it, having lived through, being trained to hide under a desk in case of nuclear missile attack, the Vietnam War era war with over 58,000 American troops killed, in a failed war, trying to sell democracy to a people that did not care, at the barrel of our guns, the Civil Rights race riots, the Anti-War protests and free speech protests (now the anti-free speech protests at the same colleges and universities), the Nixon debacle and his pardon for dirty deeds and cover-ups done, the ineffectiveness of Jimmy Carter years when the Saudis and OPEC turned off the oil to the world, with it's accompanying high inflation rates, unemployment and 55 MPH speed limits, Ron's godless Russian saber-rattling (while I'm freezing my ass off in a tank in Europe practicing and training troops for repelling the expected Russian invasion into Europe), the Iran Contra war wannabe, where an off the books war was being financed, (selling high-tech still classified cruise missiles to our enemy to monetize a conflict even congress refused to go along with and pay for) by a lowly Lt Colonel in the basement of the White House, supposedly without the knowledge of the sitting President in that White House, only to see the supposed that President held blameless, and the low level mastermind pardoned of his crimes by the next Republican I voted for. I have seen a slick Arkansas governor become President and reviled by every Republican and most democrats for his no character, low moral sexual antics (actually in the White House itself) with a young impressionable whore intern he got to give him blowjobs in the Oval Office, sometimes rubbing his cigars on her **** for flavor, though him presiding of some of the best economic times for 8 years of our history, even effecting the balancing of the budget, only to see that go up is smoke, as the next Republican president oversaw the worst foreign attack on our soil in living memory, then turning the supposed hunt for the perpetrator into a failed 20 year foreign war of occupation, along with starting another war of opportunity based on false intelligence sold to Congress and the American people, destabilizing the entire Middle East with extensive death and destruction, again killing and catastrophically injuring thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousand foreign deaths in a war, we never should have been in, only benefit going to investors and military contractors to the tune of million$ or billion$ and followed during the same 8 years by the biggest collapse of the economy since the great depression due to hands-off regulatory management of private sector financial and investing institutions by an administration asleep at the switch, with hundreds of thousands losing job, homes, small businesses while the power players had to be rescued as too big to fail, though small middle class saw their meager investments and 401k drop 40% or more, factories shut down, and unemployment soar, with no bailout.
Then we have the Donny and Hillary contest, with Hillary (the low moral, low character ***** of Benghazi who left her own non-military people in an indefensible position (months after knowing how poorly defendable and in jeopardy the position was, but she, wanting her own eyes and ears to the ground there while another part of the government recruited, armed and bankrolled selected foreign fighter groups for another military action, and then lying about what was behind the attack, blaming some movie schmuck and having him jailed). She effectively bought (or more accurately rented) the Democratic National Committee to put her political opponent in her own party out of competition, yet the Democrats picked this low moral, low character self center opportunist ***** as their standard-bearer, so the Republicans picked an equally if not more so, low moral, low character, self-centered opportunistic bastard as their matching standard bearer, the bar of acceptance for competition for the highest office in the land effective lowered to dirt level. It saw me vote 3rd party as neither the two party figurheads were candidates, anywhere near worthy of the job, due to their mutual character flaws and associations. Now, four years later, after two rightful impeachments (I've now seen 3 out of 4 three in our national history, all justified), I've seen a host of indicted, admitted and convicted trumpest crooked swine removed from position after their deeds rightfully brought to light, some advisors, some cabinet members selected by the hero of the blindfolded trump herd himself as he "hires only the best people". It has been a chaotic divisive 4 years, culminating in the "Big Lie" election conspiracy theory, that led to Donny hosting a last ditch rally in Washington in a last ditch effort to overthrow a free and fair election, he could not overthrow at the polls, the recounts, the state house, or the courts, though his shitty lawyers sounded good for the base on the courthouse step, but failed miserably (even in front of Trump appointed judges) due to lack credible evidence (despite the courthouse steps or right wing TV News infotainment rhetoric), culminating in a misguided insurrectionist attack on our Capital as our representative met to record the decided vote in accordance with our constitution and laws.
After seeing all this, (including the assassination of a President, his brother a Presidential candidate, and the assassination of the greatest civil rights leader of the 20th century, plus an attempted assassination of another President) you want to convince, things are worse than ever before, the doom is near, the low down Democrats are to blame, and the Republicans are the salvation, when both the two main political parties and their rabble-rousing components of self-interest are clearly the problem.
Don't try to blow smoke up my ass, buddy. There ain't nothing new here and everybody that has lived through it, knows it.
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