Greetings comrades! In just a few days, the electoral college will gather to install a reality TV star who lost the election by nearly 3,000,000 votes.
By every indicator, the most powerful man in the world will be taking orders from Moscow. I guess this is the only way the Republican party could actually come up with somebody who'd wreck the country as badly as the last Republican president.
The Donald's cabinet picks shows an uncanny ability to choose the most destructive person possible in each arena. A climate change denyer to run the EPA, a guy who shared Top Secret documents with Afghanistan to be National Security Advisor. There's a woman who's against public education for Department of Education and Rick Perry, who forgot he wanted to dismantle the Department of Energy, to be Energy Secretary.
The last Energy Secretary had a Nobel Prize. Rick recently competed on Dancing with the Stars.
Speaking of Russia, which we'll be doing a lot of in the next couple of years whether we want to or not, Moscow is very excited about the Donald's choice of Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.
Rex happens to be the CEO of Exxon-Mobil who is chummy with all the crackpot dictators controlling massive oilfields in the fomer Soviet Union, the middle east and Africa. Putin himself gave Rex the Russian Order of Friendship, the highest honor Russia bestows on foreigners.
I don't think we've had too many cabinet members wearing one of those badges. But we haven't elected (well, not technically) a scam artist millions of dollars in debt to Russian banks, either.
But what does that stuff matter? I'm sure those guys will have your best interests at heart! After all, look at all the service they've given to the United States. Go ahead.
After you've worn yourself out looking, come on back. There's only a couple weeks left in this year and I'm not sure how much worse things can go.
Last week our country lost John Glenn, my first childhood hero. I was 4 when he entered that Friendship 7 capsule and proved to the Soviet Union and the world that the United States was in the space race to win. His relatively short flight, 4 hours and 55 minutes, resulted in 3 orbits of the earth and enough enthusiasm in the country to get us to the moon.
Glenn proved to be so popular that JFK refused to let him return to space, fearing a catastrophe would turn the country against the space program. But Glenn outlasted them all and managed to get himself on a space shuttle flight at the age of 77, becoming the oldest person in space.
Simply speaking, this country doesn't have heros like that anymore. We're too self absorbed to have national heros. We're too misinformed, as a country, to recognize what a real hero is. Heros transcend politics, but politics have transcended our country.
Next week a charlatan will be annointed by an electoral college that is too devoted to party politics to do the right thing for their own country.
But maybe we'll be able to get Russian caviar at Wally World. That'll make it all worthwhile!