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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre we all frogs being boiled?
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, put a frog into a pot of water, turn up the heat and, over time, it will never realize it's being boiled to death.
That's the story of the past three and a half plus years in America. Trump, and the Republican Party are the owners of the pot, and we are the frogs.
Yeah, we are aware that we're being fucked. Yeah, we have tried to fight back. Yeah, we're in the streets marching against the horrible injustices that still exist in "the greatest country in the world." And, yeah, we know that the "greatest country" thing is total right wing bullshit.
Nonetheless, we are frogs being boiled to death.
AND NOW, the boiler in chief has decreed, with an "executive order," that Americans will no longer receive Social Security or Medicare (which was deducted from every single pay check you've ever received.) It's not an "entitlement." It's a bought and paid for benefit.
Let me say that again. Dear Leader has said that we will no longer receive Social Security or Medicare! (Even though every one of us have it deducted from every single paycheck we've ever received throughout our working lives.)
I don't really believe this will stand. But I don't hear any Republicans outside my door screaming that this insane "executive order" is illegal, immoral and totally criminal.
Will we survive the prick in the White House until election day and then until January 20th, 2021? I really don't know. But if we do, the wreckage he leaves behind will take decades to repair.
Somehow, someway, we must never allow this to happen again. And one way to ensure it and protect our freedoms, is by the total destruction of today's Republican Party which made this monster possible.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)magicarpet
(13,941 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)But it's not true. The frog will jump out.
PlanetBev
(4,098 posts)the second that Ronald Reagan was escorted into the White House. I cried for a week. Once the GOP hitched their wagon to the Christian Right and the greedy supply side bastards, I knew Americas finest days were numbered.
Hekate
(90,194 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The heat has just been turned up over the past 3 1/2 year at a quicker rate.
SKKY
(11,772 posts)...it certainly feels like it.