When 100,000 people gather peacefully on the streets of Minneapolis and chant "get out of our state," they recognize that what is happening to them is unjust. When nine million people march throughout our country and say “no king”, they understand that Trump's desire to be a king is wrong.
We know what is right and wrong instinctively. When the pilgrims and Puritans came to America, they knew they were mistreated in Europe. No question. They came to America to live freely and establish a just government. When the Declaration of Independence was written, there was no legal argument; they said they were mistreated, wronged, and leaving.
Our state's representatives agreed with the new government that there would be three branches of government: the executive, the judicial, and the Congress—the House of Representatives—which would oversee the other two branches. This was declared, and it was the agreement that the government and the states signed.
Now we have a dysfunctional president who will be declared incompetent next year, who seeks to be king of the Americas, a Congress filled with dead bodies from both Republicans and Democrats, and a Supreme Court that has been influenced and tainted by significant money.
So why do we think we must follow this agreement? The government broke this contract, so any talk of legal reasons for our obligation is pointless.
We don't need to debate whether Alex Pretti was armed; it's clear ICE agents mistreated him. They assaulted him, threw him to the ground, and shot him ten times — there's no need to argue; we understand what is right and what’s wrong.
Two legal issues are repeatedly discussed: the supremacy clause and the legality of ICE. The supremacy clause provides a mechanism for resolving conflicts between state and federal laws, stating that federal laws are the highest authority and take precedence over state laws, with disputes resolved by the Supreme Court.
ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security. It was established as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the September 11 attacks. ICE has become an unchecked, untrained, and uncontrollable clandestine military organization whose activities Congress should be reviewing, controlling, and modifying. However, our Congress consists of a group of dead men unwilling to uphold their responsibilities and has violated the constitutional requirements.
We should have the freedom to make the right decisions, decisions we know are correct, without being constrained by legal or other restrictions. We should not get lost in the legality issue. We should trust our ability to understand what is right and wrong; we know this instinctively, we sense it, and we should rely on that. Just as the people of Minneapolis realize it, no one needs to tell them right from wrong; they inherently know it as we do.
Again, our governors of the Democratic states are acting like wimps; they are not utilizing their united power. They are watching wrongs being committed in their states and doing nothing because of the supremacy clause. What is right is for them to order ICE out of their states and organize the state police and police from other Democratic states to surround ICE and escort them out. This should be done in all the Democratic states.
I agree with your thesis, that the society setup called "democracy with rule-of-law" is a voluntary compact. There are two levels of this. As long as someone chooses to adhere to the compact, he/she agrees to the process/laws, accepting that the course/outcomes might feel unjust. Case Al Gore losing Florida and thus the presidential election, due to highly questionable court ruling.
We all do this, "stay within the compact despite sometimes getting a raw deal", I skip the "why", it is rational.
But the basic level is "it is all our free decision". Yes, we do not have to explain to anyone, or get some outside approval/ruling, to have an official and acceptable reason to leave the compact.
The problem is that by leaving the compact we get into a raw power contest world. Criminals are people who leave the compact, making themselves thus subject to violence. That the US applies (in principle) that violence "humanely" is a separate matter, Saudi Arabia does not.
In the current "ICE in MN" context, yes, people could massively oppose the government, without the "blessing by the proper legal procedures/processes". It is a free available option of free people within the voluntary compact. The problem is that this sets up, quite officially, a stage for violence (aka "civil war"). Potentiality for massive violence does not have to fully materialise in each single confrontation (see history of warfare between Greek cities-states of old), but it is there.
So the situation, and possible consequences, are grave. I guess this is why "civil disobedience" was delineated, as a "last handhold before the abyss".
...and by all means read the dissents on Supreme Court rulings. This Repugnican majority writes bad law! Borrowing from monarchical times? How the hell...? This is the face of "bad faith" Repugnicanism -- "bad faith" is corruption and sedition. No deportation -- end them now.
For decades after reading Amusing Ourselves to Death, and being familiar with the ancients, finger on the pulse of destructive attributes within human communities, you shall not bear false witness. I tried to warn those under my care about how human community was impossible without honest truth telling. The onslaught of Fox News and other wings of propaganda were having their way with so many. Now the legacy media as you point out are being reduced to the same. I watched my own family members get sucked into the whirlpool of nonsense. You shall not bear false witness, the price will cost you everything.
This kind of amusement is unserious in the most destructive, immature way. It is antithetical to democratic governance and has no place whatsoever in democratic "free speech".
I totally agree with the comment below by Rocco Cirigliano, PhD. Our government is essentially dysfunctional. It is an operating system gone bad. It is headed up by a person who is a poster boy for not only malignant narcissism, but also for the Dunning-Kruger effect. This is what we have in the Oval Office and in essentially all of the Executive Cabinet:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude; without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.[1]
Kruger, Justin; Dunning, David (1999). "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. American Psychological Association. 77 (6): 1121–1134. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.64.2655 Freely accessible. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1121. PMID 10626367.
In other words, Trump, Vance, Rubio and of course Bondi, Noem, Miller and many others Trump has appointed and who are purportedly running our country are RUINING our country. They share a common fraility-- THE LACK OF METACOGNITION. 'This is the ability to know when you're not good at something by stepping back, looking at what you're doing, and then realizing that you're doing it wrong. " -- The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols, page 45.
What we have now are the crazies in the insane asylum running the government. In normal times, an ethical Congress in both parties would not allow these things to have gotten out of hand. But we now have an amoral, unethical group of supplicants to Trump in the U.S. Congress, in the House, and in the Senate. This is not all of them, but it's too many of them, and it's ruining our country.
We must deluge every congressman and senator and possibly governor and mayor with expressions of our disgust at what we are seeing. We must do what we can to protest the insanity and inanity of Trump and his minions, or we will have lost our country.
Brilliant! And the "cognitive incompetence" is the result of emotional retardation, the blocking of normal maturation by "command and control" badgering that blocks the development of the higher emotional self-mastery that is the foundation of holistic bodily intelligence. Renewing our commitment to democracy will require coming to grips with this in ways that "civilization" has not yet done. One down-side of American immigration is the welcoming of misfits who remain misfits, because they are incorrigible. We can't pre-screen, but we can (and must) treat.
I am all with you, Charley, but I take exception to the pre-screening. This is called "vetting" and all of us, in personal relationships, as citizens, as voters, as selecters of services (e.g., what mechanic to use, who to service my pool, etc) must realize that all people are not equal in their DNA at a cellular level, nor in their behavior in their phenotypic expressions of act. Some examples:
1. As a physician with a very strong CV, after being diagnosed with a highly malignant and often fatal B-cell rare malignancy called light chain amyloidosis (AL), I was treated poorly by a fellow oncologist at UC Davis in California. I stopped seeing him; basically fired him. Imagine, not only a patient under your care but a fellow hematologist/oncologist goes into shock and could have died on his first treatment and you don't walk 5 minutes to see how he is doing- or place a phone call sometime in the ensuing hours to see if he is OK. You vet. It's the old TV ad of "Mikey likes it." In this case, Stevie did not like at all being treated poorly. So I searched and found a much better physician, one who cares.
2. My 4-cylinder Pontiac Tempus Lemans seemed to be dying while my medical student friends and I were heading back to the U of Chicago after our first skiing adventure in Colorado. We stopped at a gas station. The mechanic said our engine was gone and offered $50 on the spot for my car. I, the son of a gas station attendant who had worked in my Dad's station since age 6, recognized BS when I heard it. We sputtered on into Omaha and left a note with keys at a Pontiac dealership in the downtown area. The next day, we went to hear what they had found. I was handed a bill for $1.98. Explanation: a spark plug wire had somehow worked its way off the distributor. The car was stressed running on only 3 cylinders.
If I had not had common sense and my experience around cars, I might have bought the $50 bid.
We need to realize that there are very special people and there are those at the opposite end of the bell-shaped curve. Our Trump, and his cabinet, are on the left side of that bell-shaped curve. They are incompetents. They are corrupt. They are criminal. Not only that, but they are anti-Democracy and Pro-Fascism.
We need to have our representatives in Congress strongly vetted-what have they done? What will they commit to and put in writing what they will accomplish in the first 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and one year once in office.
We should invest our time and our cognitive work to do this for any and all our elected officials. Or else, we will have a replay of the same shitshow we are seeing now in Washington or something similar in local government.
We have the current crisis as a potential turning point. In other words, out of crisis can come opportunity. And remember, the word opportunity has "unity" as its anchor.
I must add that the name Trump will live on as the new December 7th. In other words, the name Trump and the Trump Era, and those Republicans in Congress, will be associated with the day of INFAMY in the history of the US. And, apparently, behind all of this criminality of DHS is Stephen Miller. And if Trump and his associated criminals are successful in overthrowing this country, in the end the Nazi tactician Stephen Miller will be disposed of because he is a Jew. Miller is the counterpart of the Nazi collaborators who were Jews who sold their souls to the Nazis. Yes, Miller, they will come for you.
What Americans should realize is that their tax dollars have funded ICE. Look at what is allocated to achieve as its goal humanistic but legal immigration control in the US as an annual budget:
The 2025 budget, often supported by supplemental funds, includes approximately $29.9 billion for enforcement and deportation operations. The FY 2026 budget requests roughly $11.3 billion for base operations, with additional multiyear funds of $45 billion to expand detention, totaling over $85 billion in available funds for some projections.
This is impossible to conceive of. Imagine this: we cannot put together a Department of Immigration Control that functions humanely and efficiently and have to spend essentially $30 billion a year with a FY 2026 budget to expand that even further.
Who in the world could possibly imagine any organization being this inefficient or perhaps this corrupt to require this many billions of dollars to employ people? To actualize real-time, socially acceptable immigration control.
This nails it. The phrase 'vocabulary laundering' really captures someting I couldn't articulate before. Back in my consulting days, I saw clients use the same tactic, hiring think tanks to generate palatable language for unpopular policies. The genius of The Free Press model is how it turns ideological alignment into 'independent thinking.' Once people adopt that vocabulary, they can support almost anything while believeing they're being contrarian.
I stand corrected; and in fact, we do vett immigrants to avoid characterological errors of the past. I must have been thinking that we don't put them through an ideological sieve. Thank you.
“This is the service Weiss provides. This is what the $150 million purchased. A laundromat for ideology. A place where positions that would be recognized as reactionary propaganda in their native habitat—Breitbart, Daily Wire, Fox opinion—get washed and pressed and sent back out as respectable commentary.”
“I use the word “degenerates” deliberately. Not as epithet but as description. To degenerate is to decline from a higher state to a lower one. These are people who have the education, the rhetorical training, the access to information that would allow them to see clearly what is happening—and they have chosen to use those gifts in service of obfuscation. They have taken talents that could illuminate and deployed them to obscure. That is degeneration. That is the corruption of capacity.
“They know what they are doing. That is what makes it unforgivable.”
And finally, yes, we are paying attention and your contributions, Mr. Brock, add significantly to that knowledge.
And then there is this “ It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” The Little Prince Antoine de Saint Exupery. So it comes down to one’s heart, a moral compass- obfuscation is the deceiver.
It's time that citizens get a cutting edge, not succumbing to normalizing language when destruction is on the menu. There are definitely two sides here: Trump vs the people constituting the nation. There is no common solution to both: one must be removed, prosecuted, completely salted away, and made an eternal example of (the Trump "Holocaust" Museum). That's not too strong a word: random and unaccountable murder only grow from this point, compounding the economic criminality being practiced against us.. The other (us) must get some new backbone to take down the source of this holocaust - unearned wealth and a lopsided political economy that has been fascism-in-waiting. Our remedies must be as sweeping as the accountability of thousands peopling this regime. We can now clearly see the damage to public mental health that must be eliminated, and the therapeutics to stand in its place.
Right or Wrong. Legal, or not legal
When 100,000 people gather peacefully on the streets of Minneapolis and chant "get out of our state," they recognize that what is happening to them is unjust. When nine million people march throughout our country and say “no king”, they understand that Trump's desire to be a king is wrong.
We know what is right and wrong instinctively. When the pilgrims and Puritans came to America, they knew they were mistreated in Europe. No question. They came to America to live freely and establish a just government. When the Declaration of Independence was written, there was no legal argument; they said they were mistreated, wronged, and leaving.
Our state's representatives agreed with the new government that there would be three branches of government: the executive, the judicial, and the Congress—the House of Representatives—which would oversee the other two branches. This was declared, and it was the agreement that the government and the states signed.
Now we have a dysfunctional president who will be declared incompetent next year, who seeks to be king of the Americas, a Congress filled with dead bodies from both Republicans and Democrats, and a Supreme Court that has been influenced and tainted by significant money.
So why do we think we must follow this agreement? The government broke this contract, so any talk of legal reasons for our obligation is pointless.
We don't need to debate whether Alex Pretti was armed; it's clear ICE agents mistreated him. They assaulted him, threw him to the ground, and shot him ten times — there's no need to argue; we understand what is right and what’s wrong.
Two legal issues are repeatedly discussed: the supremacy clause and the legality of ICE. The supremacy clause provides a mechanism for resolving conflicts between state and federal laws, stating that federal laws are the highest authority and take precedence over state laws, with disputes resolved by the Supreme Court.
ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security. It was established as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the September 11 attacks. ICE has become an unchecked, untrained, and uncontrollable clandestine military organization whose activities Congress should be reviewing, controlling, and modifying. However, our Congress consists of a group of dead men unwilling to uphold their responsibilities and has violated the constitutional requirements.
We should have the freedom to make the right decisions, decisions we know are correct, without being constrained by legal or other restrictions. We should not get lost in the legality issue. We should trust our ability to understand what is right and wrong; we know this instinctively, we sense it, and we should rely on that. Just as the people of Minneapolis realize it, no one needs to tell them right from wrong; they inherently know it as we do.
Again, our governors of the Democratic states are acting like wimps; they are not utilizing their united power. They are watching wrongs being committed in their states and doing nothing because of the supremacy clause. What is right is for them to order ICE out of their states and organize the state police and police from other Democratic states to surround ICE and escort them out. This should be done in all the Democratic states.
I agree with your thesis, that the society setup called "democracy with rule-of-law" is a voluntary compact. There are two levels of this. As long as someone chooses to adhere to the compact, he/she agrees to the process/laws, accepting that the course/outcomes might feel unjust. Case Al Gore losing Florida and thus the presidential election, due to highly questionable court ruling.
We all do this, "stay within the compact despite sometimes getting a raw deal", I skip the "why", it is rational.
But the basic level is "it is all our free decision". Yes, we do not have to explain to anyone, or get some outside approval/ruling, to have an official and acceptable reason to leave the compact.
The problem is that by leaving the compact we get into a raw power contest world. Criminals are people who leave the compact, making themselves thus subject to violence. That the US applies (in principle) that violence "humanely" is a separate matter, Saudi Arabia does not.
In the current "ICE in MN" context, yes, people could massively oppose the government, without the "blessing by the proper legal procedures/processes". It is a free available option of free people within the voluntary compact. The problem is that this sets up, quite officially, a stage for violence (aka "civil war"). Potentiality for massive violence does not have to fully materialise in each single confrontation (see history of warfare between Greek cities-states of old), but it is there.
So the situation, and possible consequences, are grave. I guess this is why "civil disobedience" was delineated, as a "last handhold before the abyss".
...and by all means read the dissents on Supreme Court rulings. This Repugnican majority writes bad law! Borrowing from monarchical times? How the hell...? This is the face of "bad faith" Repugnicanism -- "bad faith" is corruption and sedition. No deportation -- end them now.
For decades after reading Amusing Ourselves to Death, and being familiar with the ancients, finger on the pulse of destructive attributes within human communities, you shall not bear false witness. I tried to warn those under my care about how human community was impossible without honest truth telling. The onslaught of Fox News and other wings of propaganda were having their way with so many. Now the legacy media as you point out are being reduced to the same. I watched my own family members get sucked into the whirlpool of nonsense. You shall not bear false witness, the price will cost you everything.
This kind of amusement is unserious in the most destructive, immature way. It is antithetical to democratic governance and has no place whatsoever in democratic "free speech".
Reference to Neil Postman, “Amusing Ourselves to Death”
I totally agree with the comment below by Rocco Cirigliano, PhD. Our government is essentially dysfunctional. It is an operating system gone bad. It is headed up by a person who is a poster boy for not only malignant narcissism, but also for the Dunning-Kruger effect. This is what we have in the Oval Office and in essentially all of the Executive Cabinet:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude; without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.[1]
Kruger, Justin; Dunning, David (1999). "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. American Psychological Association. 77 (6): 1121–1134. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.64.2655 Freely accessible. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1121. PMID 10626367.
In other words, Trump, Vance, Rubio and of course Bondi, Noem, Miller and many others Trump has appointed and who are purportedly running our country are RUINING our country. They share a common fraility-- THE LACK OF METACOGNITION. 'This is the ability to know when you're not good at something by stepping back, looking at what you're doing, and then realizing that you're doing it wrong. " -- The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols, page 45.
What we have now are the crazies in the insane asylum running the government. In normal times, an ethical Congress in both parties would not allow these things to have gotten out of hand. But we now have an amoral, unethical group of supplicants to Trump in the U.S. Congress, in the House, and in the Senate. This is not all of them, but it's too many of them, and it's ruining our country.
We must deluge every congressman and senator and possibly governor and mayor with expressions of our disgust at what we are seeing. We must do what we can to protest the insanity and inanity of Trump and his minions, or we will have lost our country.
Brilliant! And the "cognitive incompetence" is the result of emotional retardation, the blocking of normal maturation by "command and control" badgering that blocks the development of the higher emotional self-mastery that is the foundation of holistic bodily intelligence. Renewing our commitment to democracy will require coming to grips with this in ways that "civilization" has not yet done. One down-side of American immigration is the welcoming of misfits who remain misfits, because they are incorrigible. We can't pre-screen, but we can (and must) treat.
I am all with you, Charley, but I take exception to the pre-screening. This is called "vetting" and all of us, in personal relationships, as citizens, as voters, as selecters of services (e.g., what mechanic to use, who to service my pool, etc) must realize that all people are not equal in their DNA at a cellular level, nor in their behavior in their phenotypic expressions of act. Some examples:
1. As a physician with a very strong CV, after being diagnosed with a highly malignant and often fatal B-cell rare malignancy called light chain amyloidosis (AL), I was treated poorly by a fellow oncologist at UC Davis in California. I stopped seeing him; basically fired him. Imagine, not only a patient under your care but a fellow hematologist/oncologist goes into shock and could have died on his first treatment and you don't walk 5 minutes to see how he is doing- or place a phone call sometime in the ensuing hours to see if he is OK. You vet. It's the old TV ad of "Mikey likes it." In this case, Stevie did not like at all being treated poorly. So I searched and found a much better physician, one who cares.
2. My 4-cylinder Pontiac Tempus Lemans seemed to be dying while my medical student friends and I were heading back to the U of Chicago after our first skiing adventure in Colorado. We stopped at a gas station. The mechanic said our engine was gone and offered $50 on the spot for my car. I, the son of a gas station attendant who had worked in my Dad's station since age 6, recognized BS when I heard it. We sputtered on into Omaha and left a note with keys at a Pontiac dealership in the downtown area. The next day, we went to hear what they had found. I was handed a bill for $1.98. Explanation: a spark plug wire had somehow worked its way off the distributor. The car was stressed running on only 3 cylinders.
If I had not had common sense and my experience around cars, I might have bought the $50 bid.
We need to realize that there are very special people and there are those at the opposite end of the bell-shaped curve. Our Trump, and his cabinet, are on the left side of that bell-shaped curve. They are incompetents. They are corrupt. They are criminal. Not only that, but they are anti-Democracy and Pro-Fascism.
We need to have our representatives in Congress strongly vetted-what have they done? What will they commit to and put in writing what they will accomplish in the first 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and one year once in office.
We should invest our time and our cognitive work to do this for any and all our elected officials. Or else, we will have a replay of the same shitshow we are seeing now in Washington or something similar in local government.
We have the current crisis as a potential turning point. In other words, out of crisis can come opportunity. And remember, the word opportunity has "unity" as its anchor.
I must add that the name Trump will live on as the new December 7th. In other words, the name Trump and the Trump Era, and those Republicans in Congress, will be associated with the day of INFAMY in the history of the US. And, apparently, behind all of this criminality of DHS is Stephen Miller. And if Trump and his associated criminals are successful in overthrowing this country, in the end the Nazi tactician Stephen Miller will be disposed of because he is a Jew. Miller is the counterpart of the Nazi collaborators who were Jews who sold their souls to the Nazis. Yes, Miller, they will come for you.
What Americans should realize is that their tax dollars have funded ICE. Look at what is allocated to achieve as its goal humanistic but legal immigration control in the US as an annual budget:
The 2025 budget, often supported by supplemental funds, includes approximately $29.9 billion for enforcement and deportation operations. The FY 2026 budget requests roughly $11.3 billion for base operations, with additional multiyear funds of $45 billion to expand detention, totaling over $85 billion in available funds for some projections.
This is impossible to conceive of. Imagine this: we cannot put together a Department of Immigration Control that functions humanely and efficiently and have to spend essentially $30 billion a year with a FY 2026 budget to expand that even further.
Who in the world could possibly imagine any organization being this inefficient or perhaps this corrupt to require this many billions of dollars to employ people? To actualize real-time, socially acceptable immigration control.
"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Exodus 20:16, New American Bible)
But I wonder how many in this operation would claim that religious heritage.
This nails it. The phrase 'vocabulary laundering' really captures someting I couldn't articulate before. Back in my consulting days, I saw clients use the same tactic, hiring think tanks to generate palatable language for unpopular policies. The genius of The Free Press model is how it turns ideological alignment into 'independent thinking.' Once people adopt that vocabulary, they can support almost anything while believeing they're being contrarian.
I stand corrected; and in fact, we do vett immigrants to avoid characterological errors of the past. I must have been thinking that we don't put them through an ideological sieve. Thank you.
When it comes to Bari, I think Amber Frost had the best take of all:
“She’s a Dum-dum. She’s a dumb little roly-poly baby, who types out her dumb little takes with her little ravioli hands.”
Well stated, especially
two great points:
“This is the service Weiss provides. This is what the $150 million purchased. A laundromat for ideology. A place where positions that would be recognized as reactionary propaganda in their native habitat—Breitbart, Daily Wire, Fox opinion—get washed and pressed and sent back out as respectable commentary.”
“I use the word “degenerates” deliberately. Not as epithet but as description. To degenerate is to decline from a higher state to a lower one. These are people who have the education, the rhetorical training, the access to information that would allow them to see clearly what is happening—and they have chosen to use those gifts in service of obfuscation. They have taken talents that could illuminate and deployed them to obscure. That is degeneration. That is the corruption of capacity.
“They know what they are doing. That is what makes it unforgivable.”
And finally, yes, we are paying attention and your contributions, Mr. Brock, add significantly to that knowledge.
And then there is this “ It is only with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” The Little Prince Antoine de Saint Exupery. So it comes down to one’s heart, a moral compass- obfuscation is the deceiver.
Pow! "Belabor" all you want (and berate, too).
It's time that citizens get a cutting edge, not succumbing to normalizing language when destruction is on the menu. There are definitely two sides here: Trump vs the people constituting the nation. There is no common solution to both: one must be removed, prosecuted, completely salted away, and made an eternal example of (the Trump "Holocaust" Museum). That's not too strong a word: random and unaccountable murder only grow from this point, compounding the economic criminality being practiced against us.. The other (us) must get some new backbone to take down the source of this holocaust - unearned wealth and a lopsided political economy that has been fascism-in-waiting. Our remedies must be as sweeping as the accountability of thousands peopling this regime. We can now clearly see the damage to public mental health that must be eliminated, and the therapeutics to stand in its place.