Welcome to the tRump Dictatorship
I found this article in one of my saved folders from August 2019 and here we are again. Let's not do it again.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/welcome-to-the-trump-dictatorship
Snip of article
Another week of shaking our heads and wondering how much longer we can survive him. Yet again, Donald Trump overwhelmed practically everything with the force of his obscene personality, running his mouth and his thumbs even while he was failing to run the country in any sort of conventional sense. He doesnt actually do anything, but he dominates everything. Living in America today is like being trapped in a room with him no doors, no windows, no exits, only Trump and the sound of Trump and the hideous image of Trump, all day, every day, for day after day after day.
I was trying to think how to describe what it feels like to live in this country today when I came across a big profile of Neil Young published in this weekends New York Times Magazine. The author, David Samuels, was commiserating with Young about the state of music in the age of Spotify and Apple and the digitization of everything comprised of musical notes. Surveying a landscape into which he doesnt feel he fits anymore, Samuels described Young as stumped. Ive got great melodies, and the words are all profanities, Young said.
Exactly. Thats America in the age of Trump, why everyones Facebook posts are screams of frustration and anger stuffed with profanity. The sense of powerlessness is almost overwhelming. You dont feel like you can actually do anything. Everything is in stasis, stuck. Neil Young is right. Were stumped.
Let's not be stumped or powerless!!!