Anyone with an iota of common sense has known for some time that this country was on the slides. Toxic culture long preceded the rise of Trump. Violence and coarseness have been pouring into every home via their numerous screens. Wokeness runs amok. A populace deadened by the banality of social media, myopic phone addiction and unbridled marketing madness has allowed itself to become universally self-absorbed. At the same time, replacement of objective media news with sensationalist opinion has artificially divided us and separated us from our once-shared core values. Our courts have become politicized and our elected representatives serve mammon rather than their electors.
Now all of that has come to a head. Just look at the clown show running things! Jesus, Joseph and Mary! We have heavily-armed, masked gunman roaming the streets of our major cities, grabbing people and “disappearing” them with no due process. Books are being banned and school librarians threatened with prosecution. Guns outnumber people. Vital medical research is being replaced by cult nonsense, and proven vaccines abandoned. War has been declared on anyone who isn’t white and straight, although, should trends continue, they’ll soon be coming for us white folk, unless we’re rich. The spirit of our Constitution is being mangled by a Supreme Court whose majority seems to think nothing has changed since the 18th Century. My father truly believed that our Constitution was divinely inspired. If that’s the case, God must be having conniptions.
Still, America has always had the ability to exorcise its demons, albeit often violently or uncomfortably. We had a Civil War; we put an end to monopolies (at least until lately); we quickly abandoned ugly internal fascism in 1942; and we withstood the misinformation of McCarthyism, something that is so similar to what’s happening today. We rallied against the Vietnam war. This country has long needed another of these periodic enemas. And it’s to that task that Donald Trump has risen. Instead of hating him, we should celebrate him, as the slippery lubricant that will, we hope, bring a long-needed cleansing of our civil innards.
While I’ve always thought that the American people have that base level of common sense which eventually rights the ship, you’d think it would have happened by now. But a lot of my “other side” friends have tasted of the forbidden fruit and continue to stand by as, one-by-one, our cherished institutions are being dismantled. They’ve substituted “In Trump We Trust” for our previous national motto. Either this “divinely” inspired system of government that we the people call American democracy has the rectal strength to handle this current treatment or it doesn’t. While I still hope the former, my level of confidence has diminished, and my faith in my fellow citizens’ inherent wisdom now teeters on a knife’s edge.
God bless America. But not the king.
©2025 David B Bucher
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