PCIntern
PCIntern's JournalPlease allow me to posit that
the big boys play the long game, much like the military does in a major war.
Think of Trump's "election" as a Pearl Harbor-type event. The people and the brass are unprepared for the calamity and are seemingly slow to react and recover. The wounded and the dead are attended to with appropriate salves and rites and beneath the decks on the man-o'-war, preparations are slowly but deliberately made for the retaliation which only comes over what seems like an eternity following the initial insult.
Now career politicians, like the military, know that there will be casualties in the battles which will be fought. They are inevitable and tragic, but a great politician, like a great general, plans his or her campaigns to minimize the wounded and the dead while still achieving the objective in a reasonable amount of time. For America, this miscreant was able to disrupt but not demolish the Union and the armies have been assembled and the incursions have been planned and executed. The people in charge of seeing to it that the government functions continuously, who rank above anyone else who is transiently elected to public office quietly set things in motion.
Yes there have been many casualties, but one thing about America: it fights its wars, has its tragedies, its earthquakes, floods, epidemics, depressions and recessions, but in the long run it continues as the capitalist empire's flagship nation. It counts its dead, buries them, and moves forward. Yes this has been awful; yes this has been a monument to lying stupidity and false-prophets, but we are beginning to eradicate this pestilence which has infected the White House and the replacements are being groomed as we speak.
Some or most (or virtually all) of you probably won't recall
that shortly after the Fuhrer was "elected", I posted a short piece about the child of a patient of mine who works very high up in the Establishment in Washington and was contacted by the incoming administration for no less than a cabinet post. The parent told me that it was declined for very interesting reasons IN RETROSPECT.
The individual, a career Republican operative (the parents are and always have been liberal Democrats) was aware that the person who is now known as Individual 1 was known to have inappropriate relationships with the Russians and there was no way in Hell that this person would join anyone whose national security credentials were so clearly compromised by the Enemy. And this person was and is, shall we say, in a position to know exactly what is going on at the "highest levels".
Now I find the most fascinating part of this imbroglio is that the Republicans are and were therefore and obviously completely aware of the seditious nature of this discount-Manchurian Candidate inhabiting our White House and have just allowed it to progress. We have no idea how much information has been passed to the Russians and God only knows who else by this West Wing crowd.
Between the sedition and the grotesqueries of the lies as well as the probable inappropriate sexual practices of at least several of the individuals here, this administration makes Caligula's look like Jimmy Carter's.
I am all for Dump delivering a "eulogy" right after Clinton does...
The contrast would be delightful to watch and the cameras could pan towards the faces of the family of the deceased.
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