I Would Have Said It Differently

I scan and click every morning before getting to the real business of the day.

I seldom read much of what any single click yields in the way of information or opinion.

And I almost never buy any of the proffered stuff floating around on offer in those clicks.

So the fact that the quote below is a mere snippet is typical.

Of how I think, how I absorb, and how I speak.

Here is the snippet:

From: Opinion by Thom Hartmann:

"We’ve spent years watching Donald Trump attack our democratic institutions, inflame divisions, and corrupt the public discourse.

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But focusing solely on Trump misses the larger, more disturbing reality: Trump isn’t acting alone. He’s a dangerous pathogen that found the perfect host in today’s Republican Party, an organism already compromised and eager to be infected."

It turns out that that snippet is turgid with possibilities.

For editorial riposte.

Or complementary opinion.

Here is one.

Such possibility.

In a letter to Lafayette in April of 1788 George Washington said: "There cannot, in my judgement, be the least danger that the President will by any practicable intrigue ever be able to continue himself one moment in office, much less perpetuate himself in it; but [in modern parlance substitute 'except' for 'but'] in the last stage of corrupted morals and political depravity; and even then there is as much danger that any other species of domination would prevail. Though, when a people have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes".

President Washington didn't do the red text.

I did.

The republicans are only a symptom of the problem.