A Very Unhappy New Year

Democracy is governance of, by, and for the people. When federal agents mistakenly believe that they work for the president (a man who, himself, believes he is beholden to no one), and not the people, the inevitable result is that they will eventually be used as a weapon against the people. This is the truest perversion of democracy imaginable. I'm posting today for no other reason than I want this to be documented for posterity. Three weeks past the legal deadline, the Epstein files are still being slow-dripped with extensive redactions, in a blatant disregard for justice and accountability. We are barely a week into the New Year, and already Trump has started a war by abducting the president of another country; is threatening the military takeover of a NATO ally, which puts global security at risk, mounting tensions for a third world war; and today I am glued to YouTube watching rioters in Minneapolis because federal agents have begun gunning down US citizens in our streets, while the regime is busy spreading propaganda (read: their usual, egregious lies) to spin the situation in their favor. Ladies and gentlemen, it has arrived. Welcome to the Fascist American Dystopia.