First, Trump. Trump has abandoned NATO, and is destroying decades old alliances. Trump is attacking green energy. Trump is destroying the State Department, and American compassionate help in the world, and the health care system, and the military, and the judiciary, and the rule of law, and the Congress, and green energy, and the environment... the list is endless.
But, there is more. MAGA is doing all the same things. MAGA is just the KKK in modern red hats. MAGA is dedicated to turning the U.S.A. into Jim Crow U.S.A. And they are succeeding way more than I want to admit. MAGA wears masks dressed up as ICE and slams law abiding brown people to the ground, locks them in torture gulags, and deports them to countries that they know nothing about. Just racist cruelty sanctioned by Trump and his racist minions.
And more yet. The Fossil Fuel Oligarchy completely owns Trump and MAGA. I understand that those who work in the fossil fuel industry want to protect it. But the oligarchy is doing more than protecting their industry, they are sabotaging green energy. I worked in the fossil fuel industry for decades and am grateful for my career. But when it comes to energy in the country, and in the world, it is not a question of either-or, it is rather a question of both-and. Fossil fuels will always have a future in the country and the world, and because Global Warming and Climate Change are so obviously tearing us up here and all over the world we need to actively develop energy that does not belch CO2 and Methane filth into the atmosphere. And the U.S.A. dumps about 12% of the CO2 into the atmosphere and has only about 4% of the world's population. We should be leaders in the invention and deployment of green energy. But the fossil fuel oligarchy is actively seeking to destroy green energy in our country. Too bad for the world, and too bad for the U.S.A. because the future will be more and more green and we will be late to the green technological party.
And even more. Democracy. The U.S.A. has become a leader in destroying democracy in our country and thus has stopped being the model and leader of democracy around the world. Trump's and MAGA's world is the world of authoritarian avaricious corruption and tyranny. And they aren't trying to hide what they are. Say it out loud, they are racist avaricious authoritarians, and they are proud. They totally abandon the idea of being good and fully and proudly embrace the idea of being "smart", meaning being greedy and cruel.
But the story is not over. Trump and MAGA are disgusting to me, and to more and more American voters. The midterms are coming, as well as the next presidential election. And even though the KKK MAGAs will do all they can to overturn the elections, they are going to lose. And over time I expect them to fade away, although it won't be a graceful exit.
The Soul and Spirit of America is not going to be crushed by the attempt of the worst parts of America, the KKK and NAZIs and polluters and cruel greedshits. It will take time, but the greatest political idea ever written - "all men are created equal" - meaning all people are created equal - will long endure.
Trump will die, MAGA will die away, the KKK will crawl back under their rocks of shame, and America will be part of and hopefully leader of a newly invented world of freedom and responsibility. The damage is and will be terrible, but the story is not over.
