Thread by @Shoq

I need this thread for me, if not for you. So if you don’t read it, fine. I need to tell it to myself.

It’s time to take a timeout and review just where we are, and just how truly terrible things are.

In the past few months alone, we have learned that our … 1/13

mythical constitution is unable to keep the president in check, leaving him with the power of a king; that the Rule of Law is whatever the party in control of the Senate says it is; that Congress cannot impeach a dangerously incompetent president who lies about … 2/13

even the weather, nor even call witnesses to know what his executive branch is doing; that our federal agencies are just tools for advancing or enriching the aims and wealth of the party and @potus in power; that our Justice Dept has no ability to enforce the law … 3/13

@POTUS if the @Potus and AG don’t wish them to; that our vaunted press corp is not a fourth estate at all, and is quite powerless to hold anyone accountable.

It just can’t get more randomly insane. This isn’t a coherent society any more. It’s a collection of tribal … 4/13

@POTUS interests in a perpetual civil war with each other. There is no plan. There is no plan to even decide what a plan would look like. How does a nation raise a generation of children to accept, believe, or adhere to a social contract when almost everyone except … 5/13

@POTUS religious crackpots have lost almost all faith in anything government or media says.

Wake up, my fellow travelers, because this frog has been boiling for so long, we forgot we were even in a damn pot. Now we’re so boiled, we’re down to some residual fat cells and … 6/13

@POTUS little else. The only “normalcy” comes from an almost Truman Show-esque entertainment complex that goes on every day broadcasting the same trite content, interspersed with small tangents of salient things that make it feel like we’re the same country we once were. … 7/13

@POTUS But there is no overarching working view or summary of what the hell is happening to us, or where we are heading that can be read or heard anywhere (except maybe in bits of this thread).

We have thousands of celebrities and sports idols, but virtually no revered … 8/13

@POTUS authors, philosophers, academics, theologians, experts, or leaders who can posit a working direction that anyone would give credence to, or give us any sense of comfort that anything can ever be as it was 9/13

@POTUS While the Right is just doing what it always does, pillaging and plundering our resources and coffers, what remains of a more rational Left has devolved into tribes bickering over an old socialist who thinks it’s 1968 and he can yell us into electing him. 10/13

@POTUS These are very dark times, folks. And I don’t see them ending well. For anyone.If we really do value our previous concepts of freedom and liberty, handed down to us from the Enlightenment, we’d better find some courage pretty soon. We’re going to have to break this … 11/13

@POTUS system to save it.

I am NOT a pessimist by nature, but I am a realist. I have no hope anything is going to get better, and complete certainty that everything is going to get a hell of a lot worse. And soon.

We need to start facing this reality. And we need a … 12/13

@POTUS plan. I suggest my #planB. Please let me know if anyone has a better idea. You know where to find me. 13/13