THIS CAN’T BE HOW AMERICA CHOOSES TO KILL THE DREAM

Alexander Hamilton, he of Founding Father fame, perfectly anticipated the possibility of a demigod like Donald Trump in a letter to George Washington in 1792: “When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents ... despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government [and] bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day — it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’” A literate summing up of American society today. As is the not-so-literate bumper sticker seen this a.m. during an outing to my local grocery store… ‘I Support Donald Trump. And I Carry a Gun’ Here’s hoping this too, shall pass…before America is completely unrecognizable.