It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump’s next three and a half years.
U.S. President Donald Trump announcing the Golden Dome missile defense system last week in the Oval Office. (White House /Joyce N. Boghosian)
By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News
O.K, the Gulf of Mexico will remain so named, and the Government Publishing Office on North Capitol Street in Washington can stand down: The “Gulf of America” idea is no longer much of a kick.
In the same line, Greenland will remain a Danish possession. Canada will still be called Canada, and Canadians can continue to think of themselves as gentler and more courteous than the nation of yahoos on their southerly border.
Only a few weeks ago there were those among us who anticipated the demise of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the course of this spring. No, NATO’s future is secure; its grand headquarters in Brussels will not be turned into a hospital, as some people, possessed of the old “irrational exuberance,” foretold in the Trump regime’s early days.
Ditto the European Union: If anything, the technocrats in Brussels and the central bankers in Frankfurt stand to gain power as the Continent drifts into its version of neoliberal authoritarianism.
And the Deep State: not going anywhere, this sprawl of invisible, undemocratic power. The headquarters building of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a few blocks from the White House along Pennsylvania Avenue: No again, Trump’s people will not turn it into an exhibition hall dedicated to institutional corruption.
The Trump White House doesn’t say much about these sort of things these days. They were all fun, but fun things become un-fun when, like windup toys, they stop going along as the springs go slack.
True enough, Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, the C.I.A. propaganda front The New York Times insists on describing as a producer of “independent journalism” — Jeez, I mean really — may be headed for the Museum of Cold War Artifacts now that Trump is defunding it. But I am in wait-and-see mode on this one.
When distractions wear out, there must be new distractions. This is the Trump regime’s m.o., you see.
We’re now reading about Trump’s plan for a hyper-technologized missile shield system he is calling Golden Dome. This is all about satellites in space, hundreds of them, and advanced rockets that will activate when enemy projectiles are detected.
“When distractions wear out, there must be new distractions.”
Trump’s people put the cost of Golden Dome at $175 billion, which means the true cost will be some multiple of this figure. The Congressional Budget Office says $500 billion is more like it. Trump promises to get this done in three years. Defense technology people say this kind of thing will take two decades to develop.
I have in mind the old Strategic Defense Initiative, the “Star Wars” debacle of the Reagan years. I am interested only in how long it will take for Golden Dome to prove another irresponsible fantasy and how much money will be wasted between now and then.
His Second Term So Far
Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a Memorial Day ceremony on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery. (White House / Daniel Torok)
How shall we think of Donald John Trump now that he is a few months in office and the lay of the land comes clear? Who is he? What makes him tick, as the old cliché goes?
The drift among those who make America run and will go along with anything so long as it is profitable, is that there is no denying, rejecting or subverting Trump this time around. You have to sidle up to the man — dinners at Mar-a–Lago, Oval Office sessions, and so on — to make it these next four years.
This turn in thinking has been evident since the 2024 campaign season. Remember when Mark Zuckerberg went to Mar-a–Lago to dine with Trump and all the liberals gasped? The chief executive at Meta proved merely the first to put his forehead to the palace floor.
You can generally count on the liberal cliques, especially the corporatists out in Silicon Valley, to get it wrong. During his first term they did everything they could think of to subvert Trump. Those who once tried to sink his ship now clamber up to the first-class deck.
This is upside down. Trump had a few sound ideas —decommisioning NATO, ending the forever wars, a renewed detenté with Russia — during his first attempt to be president. Now he trades in idiocies and cannot get done the only good idea — better ties with Russia — that remains from his first term.
A few months into his second four years Trump proves a dangerous figure in all sorts of ways — dangerously stupid, dangerously incompetent, dangerously erratic, dangerously distracted — and so must be subjected to damage control to the fullest extent.
“Now he trades in idiocies and cannot get done the only good idea — better ties with Russia — that remains from his first term.”
Courts of law already prove key to this imperative. A coherent “movement” in the 1960s sense of this term appears out of the question — Americans seem too atomized, privatized, and alienated for any such thing to materialize — but let’s not forget that the 1960s were unimaginable during the 1950s.
There is no knowing what Trump will say or do Tuesday based on what he says or does Monday. He once wanted to get America out of its wars of adventure and altogether out of other nations’ business. Now he boasts that a $1 trillion budget for the military-industrial complex is on the way.
It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of the next three and a half years.
I have come to three different ways to reckon with how one might best understand who the occupant of the White House truly is such that one’s expectations of our 47th president remain in line with reality between now and Jan. 20, 2029.
It is possible to be 78 and still count as a hyperactive child. Trump demonstrates this to my satisfaction, anyway.
Think of a child on Christmas morning, flitting from one toy to the next, maybe fascinated briefly even by the boxes they came in. Everything’s a mess in no time.
Now think of Trump’s record these past four months — Greenland, the Gulf of America, I-just-had-an-excellent-call-with-Vladimir-Putin, Putin-is- absolutely-crazy, etc.— and ask yourself how much difference there is between the two.
There is the question of a democratic society, even one that was collapsing long before Trump came along.
“There is no knowing what Trump will say or do Tuesday based on what he says or does Monday.”
I look at Trump and cannot help but think of a World War II correspondent named Mark Gayn, improbable as this may seem. Gayn covered Tokyo after the surrender and described what he saw during the Occupation in his book Japan Diary (William Sloane, 1948).
Apart from a brief experiment early in the 20th century, the Japanese had no experience of democracy — no experience, no understanding of it, no idea how it worked. In the autumn of 1945, Gayn observed with acuity, many Japanese consequently thought democracy meant “you can do whatever you want,” as he put it. A certain social and political chaos resulted in the Occupation’s first months.
This, too, is Trump. Trampling the Constitution, which I doubt he has read, ignorant or abusive — or both — of principles such as checks-and-balances, storms of executive orders that may as well begin, “I want…”
This is a man with no evident idea of the limits governing the president as well as the rest of us. “I can do whatever I want” appears to be his operating principle.
Contempt for Expertise
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a Senate hearing on May 20. (C-SPAN clip)
If you look at Trump’s cabinet — Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi among the most obviously unqualified — you have to conclude Trump holds experts and the notion of expertise in near-total contempt.
This is true of Trump himself, of course: he who can end a war in 24 hours, he who can bring manufacturing back to the United States — he who altogether can make America great again.
True enough, experts deserve much if not most of the malice and mistrust Trump expresses in behalf of many, many people. This is because a goodly proportion of them, having discarded all thought of disinterest, have long abused their capacity to influence policies and events in the cause of their own or someone else’s gain.
We now live in a society wherein elites and any kind of elitism, as well as experts and expertise, are prevalently — fair to say — discredited. This is a problem. Trump and his dreadful gathering of incompetents are not the answer.
The other week Maggie Hassan, a Democratic senator from the great state of New Hampshire, asked Kristi Noem, “What is habeas corpus?” You have to figure Hassan saw the secretary of Homeland Security for all she is and is not.
“Well,” Noem replied — and this is in Senate hearings, mind you — “habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their right to—”
At which point Hassan cut her off, having made her point. It is mine, too: Good enough to mistrust experts, given what many of them have done with their training and their elevated positions. Not good enough to proceed as if a healthy society can do well without them.
Hassan cutting off Noem during the May 20 Senate hearing. (C-SPAN clip)
The Trump regime, in short, faces us with a truth that seems to have fallen by the wayside over many years. No polity can do well without qualified experts. It requires experts who have the principles and moral scruples to make use of their qualifications and learning in the cause of the commonweal.
Trump, in his disdain, has a baby-and-bathwater problem, to put this point another way.
It is the same with elites, I may as well add. “Elitism” may be a condemnation for many people, but not where I live. Please don’t make me imagine what life would be like in a society wherein there is no elite. The thought reeks of what we used to call “ultra-left adventurism.”
I refer here to an elite that, as with experts, understands the responsibilities they bear in consequence of their privilege and their positions. And I mean their positions in society, not atop it.
It is the wrong kind of experts Donald Trump will deliver to us these next three and some years. He can carry on all he wishes about the capacity of Everyman to get complex things done. But such displays will not make America any more democratic.
In my view all the hollow posturing will, in net terms, confirm the influence of just the sort of experts Trump and his crew purport to eschew — not least those at the Pentagon and other institutions vital to the imperium.
I wish I could end this column with something like “Good night and good luck,” but there’s no matching Ed Murrow for freighting a phrase, and this one belongs to him in any case. “Bon courage” was Dan Rather’s signoff for a brief time, an attempt at gravitas swiftly booed off the air for its pretentiousness.
“M.I.C., see you real soon” is the best I can come up with.
Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, lecturer and author, most recently of Journalists and Their Shadows, available from Clarity Press or via Amazon. Other books include Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century. His Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been permanently censored.
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“The Trump White House doesn’t say much about these sorts of things these days. They were all fun, but fun things become un-fun when, like windup toys, they stop going along as the springs go slack.”
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Who can forget the (truly pathetic) image of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump lounging on beach chairs with umbrella drinks, having a “blast” in the supposed new Gaza Las Vegas international “fun” spot? Given the universal condemnation of Israeli genocide crimes committed against the Palestinian people, not to mention the outraged, righteous pushback regarding so-called (unconstitutional) “anti-Semitism” laws, – a warehouse full of Energizer batteries couldn’t keep that battery-run, absolutely immoral, piece-of-junk toy moving.
In simplest terms, the (ongoing) GENOCIDE of the Palestinian people has become UN-FUN.
Lifetime public defender here. The one characteristic missing from this piece is the fact that that Trump is, and always has been, a criminal. If there is one trait that goes along with criminality, it is horrible judgment. When his dishonesty has full sail, he will have that keeping him, and us, dry.
$5 trillion is probably a conservative estimate.
There is this long tern form of strategic madness already in place.
But more than that, we have a deep discussion of the new normal we entered into in 2006 which got very little attention in the Canadian media. The US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) essentially declared all of Canada, Mexico, and some Caribbean islands would be situated under the umbrella of U.S. protection.[6]
Under their new policy, troops, naval craft, and US airplanes could enter into the territory of a partner country without formally getting approval of the territory’s government. And effectively, it is argued, it would preempt our country’s ability to behave as a separate governmental authority when it comes to countries like Russia and China. Our decisions having been made not by outraged Canadians, but a signature on a nearly 20 year old document.[7]
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Elections 2025: On Canadian Sovereignty and Independent Foreign Policy. With Politicians, Chossudovsky and Engler
Elite, as in inherited titles, family connections, or one dollar, one vote, is not the same as expertise through training and experience. Nor does this confer the right to rule all deemed inferiors, including that dogmatic leftist ‘vanguard of the working class.’ The now passe’ belief in the common good, as during the Populist, Progressive, and New Deal eras, was about being allies, not overlords and subjects.
Recently, I saw Fox News on in the background with an item about the Dems as elitists who don’t care about the working class majority. Only about what I call 20%ers; administrators and professionals. Ask customer service workers in places like Berkeley or Seattle how they are often treated by these allegedly nice folks. There’s an inconvenient truth to add to the bitter resentment about Dem, Labour, and Liberal parties that were once ours.
Yeah, got the reference MIC see you real soon (except us invisible classes.) IMATT–as in I’M AT the end of my Tether. That’s the key.
What a scathing article by Patrick Lawrence. I would have expected a little more of a solution oriented playbook than this diatribe…
Imo, the WH’s rocks MADness (Mutually Agreed Deception, Destruction, Death ness). In sum, the WH is outta f/control!
…… “And what’s happened is this is being twisted, and suddenly [the Universe] becomes a bloodbath of a chess board where innocent people are just being used as pawns in a game of nations.” Dennis Kucinich. “But because there’s a game of nations going on and the US was concerned about Russia’s pivot to Asia, [Well, GUESS What]? This whole thing is blowing up in the face of the West. We forced Russia to pivot to Asia, and now Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia. There’s a whole new world being formed, and the catalyst of it is the misjudgment,” of US Presidents 42-47. “What’s required is a full, sustained comprehension that Trump may be incapable of.” JOE LAURIA (Rooting Out the Root Causes in Ukraine).
Likewise, Trump’s-Vance’s impotence, in the Divided $tates of Corporate America, “lives,” i.e., SNAP! “If, you’re gonna be on the public wagon; then you gotta do something to pull it.” Mike Johnson vs. Jake Tapper vs. *Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. S.N.A.P., So, good on paper. So, mismanaged. So, perverted. It’s come to, D.O.G.E.’s “Drill, Baby, Drill.” AND, *“the only $ound that’s left, after the ambulances go,” is Trump’s-Vance’s, Inc., “Chainsaw.” “Fired-Up! Ready To Go!!!
…… The chainsaw’s high-pitched whine, w/malice, mows down “lives” dependent on the USG’s $ocial Programs, created to eliminate, hunger, illiteracy, unemployment, homelessness. And, what “we” hear, is the chainsaw’s “sound changing. Becoming deeper. A throatier roar that indicates the machine is hard at work. This shift in noise can be likened to the growl of a beast, powerful and purposeful.”
“What makes him tick, as the old cliché goes?” Patrick Lawrence. Imo, being the “Big Man,” on Campus. “The Beast, Burnt-Orange, powerful & purposeful.” Inside the“Gemini’s” (DJTrump’s) dream, “Everybody, “loves”him. Everybody’s “intrigued by the twin sign’s duality & complexity.” In DJTrump’s, “Gemini” dream, he 1) resolves conflicts, 2) “comes up w/creative solutions to difficult situations,” 3) meets deadlines, 4) breaks & sets records.
“Who is he?” Patrick Lawrence. Imo, a $urvivor, w/re$ources up the wazoo! No doubt, DJTrump is “loaded for bear.” Rock’n a Gemini’s $cheme w/a “highly active imagination,” his knack “for acting on a whim &/or making spontaneous decisions;” knowing, every move he makes, “triggers” the Universe.” imo, DJTrump is “the Big $hot.” WJClinton, “$lick Willie.” GWBush,“The Decider.” BHObama, “the Community Organizer.” Jo$eph R. Biden ,“the Big Guy” that transformed into a political corpse, posed as POTUS, masqueraded as human. The one-term, 4 years, non compos mentis POTUS rock’n an unsound mind & unhealthy body. Therefore, “we” got 4 mo’ years of a compos mentis, POTUS. “Orange ya in agreement,” a POTUS having control of his mind,” rocks?!?
* “Desolation Row,” Bob Dylan
“How shall we think of Donald John Trump now that he is a few months in office and the lay of the land comes clear?” Patrick Lawrence. Imo, like the Presidents before him, think of DJTrump w/Scorn. Contempt. “No Love.”
No doubt, #42-#47, imo, are “Not, good. Buhlieve, me. Not, good!” Everybody, knows, how the rabid, right-wing, rat ba$tard USPresidents, in a heartbeat, “Conform to the Norm,” i.e., “Kill, First. Think, Later.” Hence, fm sea to shining sea, from the river to the sea, in the deserts here; &, the deserts far away, the Red Flag flying, is a warning, “Don’t drink the water. There’s blood in the water.” The “norm,” is the killers in high places, walk free, fm accountability, for deliberately, shattering & snuffing out plant, animal & human life, in a heartbeat. Whadda “legacy.” Fugg ‘Em, all!
Fingers crossed, “Ya’ll Come Back, Soon,” ‘because it’s not just a matter of having a conversation with the choir. It’s about taking the discussion to a higher level to try to describe for people what’s actually happening, what can happen.” DENNIS KUCINICH, 12.16.22, @ hxxps://therealnews.com/dennis-kucinich-how-the-war-machine-took-over-the-democratic-party
TY, Patrick Lawrence, CN, et al., “Keep it lit!”
* hxxps://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program
The flow of politics in this country has been more mindless than not since JFK.
Occasionally a leader comes along who at least nudges the apple cart. Trump’s actions have at least elicited thought about what actually occurred in Ukraine, whether borders should be open and probably up to 20 million essentially unvetted people were allowed in, and somehow the fact that people with penises are male and with vaginas are women.
If nothing else that provided some amount of fresh air in what has become very fetid.
This all feels like Karma. This empire was founded on the genocide of indigenous people and built through the horrors of slavery. The so called leaders of this so called democratic experiment have roamed the globe looking for resources to steal and people to exploit. Millions were killed and the killing continues.
Perhaps the dead are having their say. Was this not the inevitable outcome of such a depraved endeavor? The world will be well rid of us. I do hope we can salvage something to begin the process of building a sane and truly moral democratic society. Hope springs eternal.
Superb comment! I could not agree more.
Well said. Not sure how or when it became manifest that our power structures function as histories grandest organized crime syndicate, but it has become clear to me that we are that.
I envy those young enough to be reshaping this society from the rubble I’m witnessing more and more everyday. It will likely be brutal for them but I have faith they’ll have learned valuable hard lessons. Maybe BRICS or its successor will guide them.
I am sorry to learn of Patrick Lawrence’s attraction to “elites,” though I otherwise do wish to applaud this perceptive and cogent piece.
“Elite” is a self-contained oxymoron, describing merit and psychopathy as though these could become a single quality. I suppose one might use the word differently, and I do see that Lawrence has attempted to modify it. But it seems that he still wishes to retain both halves of the contradiction. Perhaps I lack imagination, but I do not see any humane psychopaths.
The danger in this is that one might imagine that one can or could choose a useful elite rather than one or another damaging and perverse faction within an “elite.” I have to suspect that Lawrence’s visions of “far-left adventurism” have to do with the violence of insecure elites flailing to retain control. Either way, fond memories of Trump will relate to what he does not accomplish that the next masters manage, much the way Obama is remembered today.
Since next faction of elitists will not understand responsibility as a consequence of privilege, but privilege as a consequence of power, since the “far left” has been so excised from politics and even discourse that younger people have little idea what was meant by the words, I wonder what we are left.
Effective management of commons resources does exist. Here in the US of A–and, it seems, in the English-speaking world generally–we have elites in stead. I did like the piece, and I would love to hear Lawrence’s speculations as to how one might move towards resolving what he describes so well.
The so-called “responsibility” that comes with privilege generally leads to tyranny.
We have to look at this with some perspective. We had a demented President who was a figurehead for, in my view, a highly toxic cabal of corrupt officials pretending that their boss was present–he wasn’t there. Then the Democrats ran a woman “of color” because she was a woman of color who had a proven ability to do nothing well and corrupt to boot.
I see Trump as a destructive force who will seriously harm the System in Washington and, hopefully, the Empire. Our oligarchs leaders and the systemically corrupt System shows the truth of our toxic society. I prefer Trump’s destructiveness and authoritarianism to the Democrat’s move towards totalitarianism with their control of almost everything. Trump was a hypersonic missile launched at Washington. It’s a dangerous time but with Trump’s craziness we have a chance at real change out of the rubble he is causing at the moment.
Exactamundo … I think one of Trump’s great gifts to the country, which Lawrence cannot see because it’s against his world view, is pointing out the dangers of an imperial presidency to the Dems, who have been instrumental in building and enabling this destruction of our divided govt “to do good”.
The same powers that enabled the “Great Society” and the Depression remedies etc. are the same powers that enable ICE sweeps and federal govt telling CA you can’t mandate your own air quality or gasoline standards.
Perhaps minimizing the powers of DC and devolving powers back to the states as originally intended is not such a bad thing, eh? After all, the next Trump might be a LOT more competent …
As P.L. acknowledges, Trumpenstein did have a few good ideas during his first term with his jettison NATO, make peace with the Kremlin, and bringing some manufacturing back to the heartland, but all that now sits in tatters, a delusional mirage at this point. Aside from being bought and controlled by Miriam and the Palantir tech boys, he seems to be suffering from early onset dementia, erratic and ineffectual.
In the last 20 years, the middle-to upper class “white” heart of this country has had to deal with several unsettling facts:
– that our “exceptionalism”, such as it was, was a chance event that is passing;
– that a bigger and better country (China) is taking over;
– that the country we thought we owned and whose politicians were supposed to, at the end of the day, be on our side are in fact truly owned by the 0.1% and will sell us down the river for their true masters;
– that experts and scientists will lie and exaggerate during emergencies to get $ and power;
– etc.
Is it any wonder we have selected a know- nothing in the grand American tradition to burn it all down and start over?
“It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump’s next three and a half years.”
Sorry, never had such a delusion.
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In the last election, I realized that no candidate that I thought could turn America around and push to get America back on to the right side of history existed. The only one who was even in the ballpark had been denied ballot status by rich Dem lawyers, and even then I would not expected much.
So, I switched gears and decided that the world would be much better off if the collapse of the current America (which is firmly on the wrong side of history) would occur sooner rather than later. I then analyzed, and determined that in this race it was a tie between Donald “Big Lie” Trump and Kamala “Word Salad” Harris. The two would have different styles and some different decisions leading to the collapse of the American century before it got to the century mark, but both would accomplish the same ends.
Donald Trump has been showing the world exactly what could be easily predicted before I got to cast my mostly meaningless vote. A brief summary would be that the man has zero moral character, and lives for greed and ego. DT is not smart, he paid some one to take his college exams for him. DT does not like smart advisors, and if he finds any around him, they get run off. DT likes yes-people and relatives to tell him that he is right and brilliant. All of this combined with what a normal society would call insane amounts of ego and greed. Thus. he pursues his personal goals without any real planning and with any smart advisors only lasting until they make the mistake of contradicting the Great Donald.
The last few months were fully predictable. Especially since as a 2nd term President there was no reason to expect surprises.
PS … I ended up going with a protest vote for my meaningless vote that could not possibly impact who was in the White House. In the nation that loves stupid, I voted for a PhD.
Patrick, I don’t know who you think your audience is, but none of us, your regular readers, ever entertained the slightest thought that anything good would come from Donald Trump and his rabid cohorts. We did not have any illusions about the Democratic Party, either. Only the truly naive and ill-informed would fall for the lies and crimes of Trump or the lies and crimes of the Democrats.
Our grand leader has dementia. On top of malignant narcissism.
I love Patrick, but this is a wrong turn for him. It’s the losing Dem go-to about the whole astory is anti-Trump.
Dems like Patrick will lose as long as they offer no SOLUTIONS, and they ignore the appeal of the “orange devil,” as our local Dem leaders call him. Briefly: closed border. drug prices. hostage return. surge in military and FBI recruits. Houthi bombing of our ships stopedd. The long list is ignored by Dems to their peril
Note: I have never voted for Trump, and switched to Green Party as I’d rather vote for losers I respect.
How does that make Mr. Lawrence a Democrat?
Wonderfully written.We lead busy lives and can only give sensible time to where we can rarely find constancy with principle.
Just as with Zelensky way back,and Starmer its time to switch off over Trump to whom after Russiagate i made special allowances
Next 3-1/2 years? It won’t go this long…
I remembered when I did my psychiatric placement, there was this patient who thought himself to be exceptional at everything, yet his life was a wreck. He was dignosed with acute schizophrenia.
Couldn’t help but think of USA upon seeing him.
A people under the influence of powerful mind control would appear likely to experience symptoms of schizophrenia. They are literally having thoughts from outside themselves being pumped into their brains. Thus, to the extent that their internal “find yourself” personality ever shows, then it would naturally appear that they seem to have multiple personalities with this natural personality alongside the implanted personalities. Given also that there are multiple, mind-control forces all pumping out messages to buy something, go into debt, or vote for this oligarch’s puppet, or pumping out whatever self-serving message is worth the bucks, the powerful mind-control alone will tend to produce symptoms of multiple personalities as the mind-control from different sources all conflict with each other at times.
“acute schizophrenia” indeed.
welcome to a time of insanity US style…exceptional, centre of the crowd, talking much too loud, running up and down the stairs of history, the show must go on, it is always darkest just before dawn, question is how will US Anglo Saxon colonial empire end, with a whimper or the greatest crash this planet has ever witnessed? Degeneration of US style society is simply breath taking!