The article is probably for those still inclined to discuss and parse and bemoan. As a cranky older person, I can't help but think that a horse with a broken leg deserves careful assessment ... together with the recognition that someone is going to have to point the gun and pull the trigger. You can only talk about a cluster-fuck for so long. And then, well, it becomes tiring without result, dismaying without result, outrageous without result, anti-American without result.
Strange to think that the cranky and dispossessed who swept Donald Trump into office are now, so to speak "the rest of us." "Speak truth to power????" That only works when the truth has some footing from the get-go. Donald Trump's ascendancy has proved that anything that might be called "the truth" is a minor and sometimes inconvenient matter.
Parsing out a man made armageddon.
ReplyDeleteInteresting article.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
I’m a big believer in due process. I’ve also gained an understanding, however small, of the political process.
While on the face of things I dislike what Trump has been doing as portrayed so far but with sources and articles like the New Yorker and The Atlantic I feel it useful to appreciate the scope & depth of Trump’s actions which aren’t exactly misdeeds.
I don’t think the current government situation is encapsulated by the metaphor of finding a farmhand willing to shoot a lame horse; it’s more like the tortuous process of deciding whether one has the right to kill off an entire species. (I’m inclined to say yes, but I lack the wherewithal.)