The Numbing Of America

Just Five years ago, most Americans proudly proclaimed “That will never happen here.” Then it did.

Exactly what “That” is could be any number of heinous, rather remarkable assaults on our once firm belief in our inherent goodness, our faith in our policies and practices, our certainty that we were and would always remain the envy of all other nations. We trusted in our institutions, in their legitimacy and functions and embraced our power to influence the balance during an election and- even when the results didn’t favor our world views- respected the results.

Who we were as a country is not who we are today.

The United States of America has endured five years of a twisting and eroding of our stoic nature, subjected to the absurdity, crassness and comic book villainy of an administration that rose to power and immediately began systemically whittling away at the very basic fundamentals of our morality and conscience.

Perhaps early on we would react with shock, horror or disgust at the American President and his cohorts who perverted our political terrain with blatant corruption, wild conspiracy theories and a parade of non-stop lies deliberately intended to stoke division among the citizens of this country like we haven’t seen since the civil war. Running a campaign that never stopped long enough for Donald Trump to actually be…