The U.S.S. United States Is Heading Toward The Falls & No One Seems Worried About It
The Democrats assume that Trump can’t be re-elected but they’re wrong
By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
The Niagra River flows from Lake Erie north to Lake Ontario, cascading over the Niagra Falls about halfway between the two. It’s quite wide and relatively serene until you near the falls, at which point the current picks up and you start to hear the growing roar.
By then, of course, it’s too late to avoid the impending disaster that consists of the vertical portion of the journey.
People used to deliberately go over the falls in various contraptions in the hope of garnering fame and fortune by emerging from the foaming waves alive. Few were successful. Other than those thrill seekers and headline hunters, most people have had the good sense to stay out of the water.
Today (early January, 2024) I increasingly feel as if I’m in a very large boat named the U.S.S. United States Of America chugging up the river a few miles south of the falls.
As the current begins to pick up speed, and I can detect the cascade’s background roar in the distance, the thing that increasingly amazes me is that so many of the other passengers are so blasé about the approaching disaster.
If I tap them on the shoulder and say, “Hey, in a little while we’re all about to go over the falls to our common doom,” they give me a patronizing little smile and tell me that it’s all going to be fine, that the boat has weathered rough waters before and that, somehow, it will survive this catastrophe as well.
“We’re going to topple over a waterfall 167 feet high with massive, jagged rocks at the bottom,” I tell them, “where we’re going to be smashed into little bits of wood, flesh and bone.”
Most give me a patronizing little shrug and say that it will all be fine, while a few grin and tell me, “No, it will be great! The view will be spectacular and what thrill we’ll experience as we careen on down! It’s what we’ve always wanted.”
So, I go up to the wheelhouse and pound on the door. The cotton-topped Captain blinks at me as he rouses himself from a doze.
“Captain,” I shout, “you have to turn over command to someone else who can save the ship before it’s too late.”
“Oh, no, that will spell the end of my career,” he replies. “Don’t worry, sonny. I can steer her to calm waters.” Then he shoos me out of the room and the current drives the ship even faster toward the brink.
If the captain doesn’t let somebody else take the wheel, those idiots who think going over the edge will be a terrific ride are going to get their way. There are more of them down in steerage than the clueless captain thinks.
They want us all to take the plunge while most of the other passengers are sure that somehow, some way, some magic miracle will save us, but it won’t.
Do you think that I’m some left-wing alarmist yelling that the sky will fall if Trump gets re-elected because we failed to make some uncomfortable changes?
Here are some opinions about Trump from a person in Trump’s own family and former high-ranking members of Trump’s first administration:
- Rex Tillerson, Trump’s first Secretary of State: “(Trump’s) understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.”
- Mike Pence: “The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”
- John Kelly, Trump’s longest serving Chief of Staff: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
- Mark Esper, Trump’s 2nd Secretary of Defense: “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. . . I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”
- Maryanne Trump Barry, Trump’s late sister and a retired federal judge: “Donald is out for Donald, period.” “Donald is cruel.” “You can’t trust him.” “He has no principles. None.” “The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy sh*t.”
- Anthony Scaramucci, Trump’s communications director: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”
We, the citizens of United States of America, are headed toward a cliff propelled by Biden’s selfish desire to hold onto power coupled with his unwillingness to jettison a Vice President who does not have the confidence of the American people, plus the reluctance of right-wing partisans who, though they know that Trump should never be allowed to hold public office, will still not vote for any Democrat who is running against him.
All of this is music to the ears of the fundamentalist Christians, gun nuts, right-wing ideologues and racists who make up the core of Trump’s Republican-Party supporters.
If Trump gets back into the White House, this time he’s going to do a better job of consolidating his power.
This time he’ll immediately fire all the senior leaders at the FBI and the Department of Justice and install his own cadre of sycophants willing to do anything and everything he tells them to. And most you have no clue of the extreme things that he will tell them to do in the service of his retaining control of the country.
We will quickly have our own “burning of the Reichstag” moment.
If you really want to see an American right-wing police state, start polishing up your glasses.
I keep telling myself, “Trump can’t get re-elected after everything he’s done and everything we know that he is. There can’t be that many bad/stupid/crazy/fanatical/partisan people in the United States.”
But there can be and there are that many such people, even religious people, who have willfully forgotten that you can never ultimately profit from a deal made with the devil.
Lucifer will always beat you in the end, but by then it’s always too late.
A democracy gets the government it deserves. It saddens me that, for our sins, the American people may well turn out to deserve a government under the control of a lying, mean, selfish, narcissist, megalomaniac like Donald Trump.
— David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website)
