Musk and Trump careen downhill
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, Oct. 8, 2024 – Musk and Trump are surfing the avalanche of America’s fall from the state of grace she occupied when her commander-in-chief, who secured the Union’s victory over the Confederacy and freed the enslaved, also was the poet whose Gettysburg Address will be read so long as people are free to read.

Or, perhaps the people prefer to be read to, or simply told what to do, what to know, what to think, how to pray, where and why?
Musk and Trump are perfect avatars of what happens to people who remain willfully ignorant of the human story and the sweep of history. Musk’s elementary schooling in South Africa left him unable to recognize the difference between blackmail and simple business decisions not to be associated with his electronic graffiti machine.
That mental flaw alone caused his company to hemorrhage billions of dollars. Citizen Musk could get an expert’s lesson in blackmail if he had the humility to request if from his feckless hero, himself $85 million light thanks to E. Jean Carroll’s whitemail!.
Instead of busily planning a celebration for our 250th Anniversary, half the nation is scared to death what the 2025 Project portends, while the other half lays in ammo and MRE’s for a national bloodbath. They are quiet as they await the release from prison of their Kentucky colonel, Bannon the grifter.
How many people ever get to fuss over a semiquincentennial? Even during Nixon’s aborted reign, the people took delight in Bicentennial plans; we were relieved by his absence from the scene that summer.
Pardon Ford and the emergence of Pastor Carter brought a calm over the land, while the treasonous Nixon’s sinister Powell memorandum, precursor to the 2025 Project, simmered underground.