Every now and then, the Media gets sucked into the mind game of repeating poison-pill news stories. Many are talking about the unfairness of sweeping up innocent people in the 'Venezuelan gangs' round-ups by ICE. -- Guess what? THEY ARE ALL INNOCENT...until proven guity! Remember? America?

"A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism."
- Abraham Lincoln

On the Trump era: I once heard Buckminster Fuller say: "Man invents his way into huge predicaments, then invents his way out of them."

A more famous quote: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

MAGA perfectly summed up in an old cartoon

Entitlements? Social Security and Medicare are not "entitlement" programs, they are government-mandated annuity contracts! You contribute from your pay for your whole working life, Uncle Sam has use of your money until age 65/66, then they have to pay you back plus the value of using your money.

Power, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The most powerful men, once their supporters turn away, are just faces in a crowd.