The Depth Of Disgust Gets Deeper Every Day. Seems To Be No Bottom.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Every day more and more disgusting behavior shows up on the national scene. The portrait of the Trump family is reminiscent of the series Dallas. Totally dysfunctional family at the head of our country along with a gang of miscreant billionaires known as the administration. Add a complicit GOP willing to go along with any manner of illegality and you have a perfect recipe of corruption and thievery.

It is impossible to even watch.

[dalton99a]

1. We used to laugh at the Third World and its selfish, ruthless, outlandish dictators

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Not to compare trump to Hitler but..

..... I keep saying "ahhh so THIS is how it happens. Business and a party leadership willing to look the other way because they stand to gain everything their little shriveled hearts have desired for 40 years"

They are willing to put heir agenda before country and they don't care who dies or gets killed in the meantime.

[world wide wally]

3. The blatant corruption is stunning

And we act like helpless children in the face of it

[Laffy Kat]

4. Never thought I'd see something like this in our country.

We will be decades living it down and the longer it goes the worse it will be, and that's if we survive.

[LenaBaby61]

5. "The Depth Of Disgust Gets Deeper Every Day. Seems To Be No Bottom."

Nope, the tRumputin crime syndicate Family, buddies, collaborators, installers (putin) are nothing but grifting, treasonous, vile, disgusting, a moral, filthy, bottomless pits.

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. Nice piece of writing.

And you're right about the complicity of the GOP, which is especially maddening. Maybe I'm naive, but one would think that the GOP hierarchy would at some point begin to surmise that they're going to pay dearly for these adventures and start acting as if they're morally outraged.

[Samantha]

7. I no longer watch because I can't handle the soap opera any longer

I have Trump on ignore, and my blood pressure has gone back done and I am suffering less depression. I do follow the news on a couple of websites and have started watching Lawrence O'Donnell again. Other than that, I am on wait mode, hoping the hammer comes down before our government collapses completely.

More than once, I have thought about a remark made by one of our founding fathers, but could not remember exactly which one made the comment. I took a moment just now to look up who exactly defined our government as a republic, if we could hold onto it. That founding father was Benjamin Franklin:

If there is a lesson in all of this it is that our Constitution is neither a self-actuating nor a self-correcting document. It requires the constant attention and devotion of all citizens. There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it." The brevity of that response should not cause us to under-value its essential meaning: democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their continued good health.

https://constitutioncenter.org/learn/educational-resources/historical-documents/perspectives-on-the-constitution-a-republic-if-you-can-keep-it

As you can see from the quote, the word was "if you can keep it." And that thought is what has been haunting me since we started down trip with Trump, Bannon, et al.

I hope we can keep and restore our government to a republic, but I am holding my breath.

Sam

[kentuck]

8. Just about sums it up.

I would say.