As Nero Fiddled, Rome Burned

Now, while Trump tweets, Washington is in flames?

Are we in fact watching the decline and fall of the American Empire? Is the United States of America in its final divide? “A house divided cannot stand,” said Abraham Lincoln, who managed to survive the Civil war. Today, will that same house outlast the cynical partisan divide? Have the house Republicans out distanced any sense of balance, fair play and dived into Hubris that they simply don’t care what Donald Trump says, i.e. The Bowling Green massacre, The Sweden massacre, the alternative facts, The Obama wire tapping.  And the list goes on. Yet at the same time we have Mike Flynn resigning for lying to people about his contact with the Russian ambassador, Jeff Session perjuring himself over the same question to the Senate and multiple people popping up to say they too meet with Russians during and after the election. Is Donald Trump’s administration merely the new Russian front? And what about the sex tape that they Steel file claims is out there of Donald Trump peeing on a bed Obama may have used, all in the best spy footage ever taking by the Russian KGB latest installment as FSB, Federal Security service? And all of this and Trump has been in office for not his 100 days but just over the first 50 days? And just who can forget the inauguration, watched by the largest crowds EVER! EVER! Thus screamed Whitehouse spokesmen Sean Spicer as he flushed any hope of his own credibility down the new paper wire, along with his reputation and the truth by lying in his first press conference with the media. “You can’t handle the Truth”, screamed another equally silly little man named Colonel Jessup in “A Few Good Men.” Sadly who ever might remember such an event clearly was not there. America was built in part on the largest internal economy allowing for the free shipment of goods and services within the borders until now, where congress will be asked to pass legislation for 1 trillion dollars in infrastructure renewal, except it won’t renew anything. It will in fact, sell off the highways and bridges to private interests creating new tariff walls against this free movement. You cannot get there from here, unless you pay, will soon be the norm.

Thankfully, in the houses and in the streets, Americans are angry, pissed even. Those few who hate Obama care but love the Affordable Care Act will soon realize they are one and the same. Well they will realize it once it is gone, repealed and replaced. The red states who voted for Trump are also the states that need Obama care the very most. Burnt once shy twice? We can only wait and see what will happen in next year’s midterm elections. Yet even that is not enough, if the people merely elect blue dog democrats instead of blue dog republicans. They need to find a liberal to rally around. They need to unleash the progressive wing of the party. In short they need to take back the hands of government from those who would drive the country to the brink of disaster. Or surely as the Roman Republic fell, so too will this republic. Not by war and invasion but by greed and stupidity. It is truly time to make America Great again. This starts with the remove of Donald J. Trump from Office that he has stained by his mere presence. The removal of his many cabinet picks with competent people and the overthrow of the Republicans death grip on the Congress. The people need to stand up and be counted for. Or truly Washington is burning to the ground to extinguish the shining beacon of hope for freedom and liberty.