Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

SHORT MEMORIES (2/20)

Is it just political amnesia or do Americans genuinely not want to know? Do they not remember the eight years of Bush, ending in 9/11 and potential financial disaster? Then the slow, eight years of the Obama recovery which called for restraint. Now we have a man in the White House tearing off the locks which kept us safe and we're off again into a Republican political and financial whirlwind. How many more of Trump's associates have to be indicted before his supporters realize the man is a crook? So much for Christian morality from a man who cheated on all his wives, lies constantly and lives in debt. Both the Constitution and the legal system are under threat as Trump whips up the animus of his carefully nurtured populist base. No wonder the man admires Putin. Democracy is under threat but everyone seems to pretend its just another episode of The Apprentice. He is beginning to make Jim Bakker look like a saint. When are the facts going to matter? When are "WE THE PEOPLE" going to matter? The only reaction of the press appears to be to rearrange the deckchairs.