http://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/opinion/state-of-the-union-trump.html?comments#permid=30490843

We have cut off our own balls and have presented them steaming and kneeling before our master on our knees and on our knees. You cannot make government yourself. You cannot remake it yourself. Not when absolute power is in your face.

I have suggested to people that a more hardline approach might be necessary. People cringe, and they run screaming down the street on fire that the conservatives are coming, the conservatives are coming.

They’re already here, and they own every rock, every lost cure, every pay-off, every child at the border who dies, every plumber, every break in, every hidden tax return, every smokestack emitting poison to the winds, every broken bridge, every chemical company located alongside some anonymous creek, every government shut down, every school failure, every goon dressed to appear as celebrity-politician, every gun, every form of greed, every military ready, willing, and able to do the bidding of evil itself.

Rome burned, too, Many times.

We revere our founding fathers as gods. And they could see this coming. Some of us live on steak, and as individuals, their inflated individual greatness. Some of us live on rice and beans if we can afford them and social security which has a very taught rope made from toilet paper on a shoe.

We have no guts to render the monster irrelevant. A bi-partisan consensus means we have an enormous, outdated, sick, suicidal, grasp of the very social and culture systems that have brought us to the chewing of our nails. We bemoan the next erasing of constraint. Americans are afraid. If we look the other way, we can heal anything.

But not this.