Sorry, More Politics

[lisa_goldstein]

Well, we’ve done it.  We’ve just inaugurated a man who will, almost certainly, go down as the worst president in U.S. history: stupider and more incurious than George W. Bush; greedier and more of a war-monger than Dick Cheney; more cold-hearted than Reagan; more thin-skinned and vindictive than Nixon; more of an adulterer than Clinton and Kennedy combined; more crooked than Harding.  As for his racism and misogyny and xenophobia, you’d have to go back even farther to find a comparison, to a time when those in power dismissed minorities and women with jokes and epithets.

And then there are the traits that are all his own: malignant narcissism, a pathetic desire for adulation, a penchant for lying that comes almost as easily as breathing, massive conflicts of interest, a debt to Russia whose outlines are only now becoming clear.

I … don’t really know how to end this post.  Yesterday was pretty grim, but today the marches have given me hope.  What matters, I think, is keeping this feeling of resistance alive, reminding ourselves that none of this is normal, that this isn't the way the United States usually works.  And we're going to have to do that for four years, or for however long he’s in office.  If we can keep that up, we just might be able to make it through.

Comments

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

On the upside... We were spared the horror of a Hillary presidency. :-(

[ljgoldstein.livejournal.com]

::Morbid laugh::

I read another list comparing trump to former presidents, and someone added "and Dan Quayle's spelling." Wish I'd thought of that one!

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, Quayle, who lowered the bar - or paved the way - for the likes of Dubya.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

"They climbed up the ramp to the ship. It was already filled with American soldiers returning home. They ran to the railing, and Kicsi thought how odd it was that they were all so anxious to get a last look at the land they were leaving. Voros's hair was a small dot of color among the people on the dock. He waved at her. The ship left the dock. She waved back to him and continued to wave until he was out of sight. The coastline faded as slowly as a smile fade. She turned and looked to the west, to America."

I hope that America still exists in enough hearts that it'll flourish again.