An important message from Carl Reiner.

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11. With you Carl, BUT....

......I see the Trump Presidency as more the culmination of a festering disease that's been here a long time in America.

We were lied into the Viet Nam War. Lied into the Iraq War. The Republicans have been denying human caused climate change for a long time with a "both sides" analysis in the MSM. Deregulation of the banking system, and the idea that cutting taxes on the 1% helps the rest of us is all based on lies, spin and more lies. People of Color could tell Carl a lot about systemmic racism in America----creating another kind of immense lie that is 400 years old.

Lies in many ways, mixed with the distraction of entertainment, is the miasma Americans have been breathing for years---until it results in the monster that is Trump.

Trump is shockingly new and different and yet, at the same time---inevitable-- given our history of denial, racism and arrogance on the world stage.