Pay attention; the best times of your life may be passing you by...
--Chinese Fortune Cookie
It is difficult for me to stop writing about the doom of the next 4-8 years when so many liberals and moderates keep writing about opposition to Trump, and how Bernie and Dems will halt the coming onslaught. How I hope my reasoning is incorrect. But every day, every appointment, every indication points not to a passing few years of trouble, but rather an irreversible catastrophe. T. and his team stand for and have fought for years to repeal the Great Society of Johnson and the progressive achievements of FDR. We shall see a radical dismantling of social programs. We shall see enormous infringements of civil rights. We shall see nothing short of war on the environment, undoing protections to water and air. It will be a war on science across the board. Religious fervor will be encouraged, especially by the fanatical Pence. Some of T.'s team actively want to bring on the religious apocalypse. Really. And that leads to a war on Islam. It leads to a possible nuclear war with N. Korea. Is that what we shall survive? Will we be able to make everything OK again in 2020 or 2024? The biggest danger of all is complacency, thinking we can weather T. as we weathered Matthew and other natural disasters that will be increasing exponentially. We are a stupid, complacent, superstitious people, afraid to admit and face the truth. I guess the solution for me is to listen to a nice violin concerto as T. stokes the burning of the planet. At almost 70, I can do that. Millennials will not be so lucky.
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