More and more.....

it becomes evident that there are better things to do than sit here and read about the latest criminality coming out of this administration of criminals.

There are more important things to be reading about maybe even some fiction that would provide a nice diversion from the endless list of criminal acts being committed daily which are ignored by a captive media and a portion of the American people who will be the first to cry when they realize that it was their own indiffernce and inaction that led to the end of our democracy.

Time to re-read Plutarch, Livy, and Herodotus. The actions going on will seem familiar, the wars will be there and the intrigue surrounding greedy men who aren't satisfied with more than most people around them have, and the ending will be known.

What will be different this time around is that the ending has changed somewhat. In first reading these books it was possible to look into them and see how those who came after them learned lessons from them and crafted successive governments to avoid the pitfalls that seem to always be in the way of good governments made up of mere mortals. Now, looking forward from this place in time, into the sixth year of an imperial presidency that seems hell-bent on global war for as long into the future as possible, the ending has been modified. There is no longer the secure feeling that we have gotten it right more than others before us.

In its place is a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that perhaps we got it more wrong than any others. We have the evidence of Nero at hand to study. We have the recent history of the rise of Mussolini and the fascists of Europe to pore over, yet we let a little tin make-believe soldier and his coterie of thieves run rampant on the rest of the world, tarnishing our reputation as a country and removing whatever claim we might have once held to moral authority.

It came out in the news yesterday that the United States is helping Somalia to disappear people.

This is the democracy we are exporting to the rest of the world.