House of Cards?

How do we voice displeasure and have our voices heard? Or was this always going to be a fool’s errand?

The second Trump term is already feeling like some foreign incursion, like he and the rest are serving the interests of a narrow few, and not the country as a whole. Barring some miraculous change of heart, it appears there’s nothing anyone will be able to do to stop them, so it’s going to come down to violence, with law enforcement and the military having to choose sides.

We’ll know this for sure when Maddow, Colbert, and Kimmel, along with the press, decide to tone down their rhetoric and critique, become subservient and acquiescent, effectively marginalized.

How can these people have so much power? Partly because the Republicans in Congress are all walking around, somehow, without backbones. And consciences (that includes you, Mitch, even though you voted against Ms. Gabbard). And the Democrats have the convenient excuse of being in the minority. Helluva place to be, considering the moment.

People voted for this. We all should have seen it coming, and many did. No one should be surprised, except maybe by the level of cowardice and speed of capitulation. Who knew Executive Orders could carry so much weight?