Politicians remind me of kids who would get so heavily involved in the game of Dungeons & Dragons that they’d lose track of reality. At some point, imagination becomes delusion. For Republicans, the angst of over-taxing rich people seems to be their highest concern while economic apartheid keeps the bottom half of this society hidden from the top half and working-class people are getting brutalized by a government that sponsors and supports capitalism, where few have so much and many have so little! Let us give the late Molly Ivins, a Fort Worth, Texas, political lampooning journalist, credit for this truism. Personally, I am sick and tired of all political fools thumping their respective chests while gaming people’s rights to enjoy a fair playing field called democracy! How can democracy exist when its constituents are duped and controlled by aggressive special interests, useless bureaucrats, inept and crooked politicians, and monetary and military oligarchs? President Donald Trump is no less a weasel than Russian President Vladimir Putin!
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