What qualifies as ‘prey’ in the mind of a predator?
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, Sept. 15, 2024 – The world outside our magnificent Atlantic and Pacific moat has for 80 years worked overtime to topple us. We, the people, with our paper-thin declaration and constitution, make them look so small, because their ancient creeds and laws guarantee little more than heavenly peace and earthly war.
If we, the people, survive our own faux fuhrer, how will we celebrate the semiquincentennial of our miraculous, if not immaculate, national birth? Will we wonder publicly why we were so easily misled by a lifelong liar and cheat?
However many people believe he is the answer to their prayers is how many people who would benefit from a lesson in what qualifies for ‘prey’ in the mind of predators such as him.
He is the epitome of an unregulated salesman – it is that simple, dear reader. Caveat emptor is the law of the market and he has warned us every slothful step of his power trip. His college degree was bought by his father (where are the transcripts?), but he bullied his way ahead, and his Dunce Cap adorns the domes only of people who want something from him.
The fact that guns have become the leading cause of childhood death is proof that, unless well regulated, the second amendment is a national suicide note. The refusal of so many Americans to believe what stares them in the face puts a smile on the face of every foreign potentate on earth, even King Chuck the nutcase.
America has sunk so low that we deposit our treasure and imaginations in the pockets of such people from away as Murdoch and Musk. In God we trust – yeah right.
With out national obsession for courtroom drama, it is safe to say that no one is ignorant to the language of the oath to tell not only the truth, but the whole truth. It is a failure of the imagination for anybody to assume that the truth and the whole truth are the same thing.
The truth is that somebody can recite one true fact after another while concealing the whole truth of whatever situation or condition produces those many individual facts.
I date our downfall to the end of Dubyadubya Too because that is when we failed to dismantle our munitions and war-fighting industries. That effectively rendered null and void our Declaration of Independence, and announced that we had succumbed to life as governed by a hundred phony potentates who rule under cover of a hundred phony philosophies and half-true religions.
When President Truman (oh, the irony!) signed the bill that added a secret espionage service to the executive branch of the federal government, he infantilized the American people, who ever after can only hope the President not only always tells the truth, but always tells the whole truth.