A single drop of common sense is required to make plain that the pawn of a liar is as little to be believed as the liar who directs the pawn.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ranks among the finest illustrations of this dangerous phenomenon. This, of course, is nothing new, there have been many such puppets installed by Trump to head the country’s various departments; to do his bidding, to serve as a dumb extension of the most profoundly unqualified man to ever occupy the Oval Office.
What Trump’s voracious ego, his thin skin, and wealth of ignorance have laid so frightfully bare are the egregious flaws in a supposed system of checks and balances that was to keep us safe from mad egomaniacs and the worst of incompetence, which the well-meaning ratified in Philadelphia back in 1787.
What those that forged the subsequent amendments failed sufficiently to keep in mind, is the inherent, treacherous quality of self-interest in man, forever waiting, vile and virulent, for any opportunity. It corrupts; it stains; it makes a prisoner of independent thought, and motivates the worst potential, sometimes even in the good.
It’s this abominable quality that has Republicans facilitating the actions of a man that shouldn’t be allowed to run a kiosk in a mall.
