It's the elephant in the room but of no issue as issues today are only those that make it to the 6:30 evening news, in itself a problem in that those issues are only the tip of the iceberg in today's population and corresponding issues compared to say some century ago when perhaps there was a balance between the amount of "Representational Government" and only X amount of population. Today, our government is overrun so as in triage must pick the snazzy headlines or, quaint comes to mind. And today, we've morphed into The United States of Business, all hail, supplanting our government as boss or as assumed co-boss. The resultant means that any notion of "United" is now between the corporate model and the government model to keep the modern mass of people in line, the We, utilizing the age old top-down, blanketed policy thumb without regard for circumstance, contingency, or merest suggestion. Vote for someone else next time, take our business elsewhere, or vent to your spouse are tired, oversimplified remedies for all the clamor in modern society, especially as to real time contentions. We have come full circle back as a regime, however sugar coated that instead of subjects and vassals we become more flavorable tasting customers, employees, and citizens; instead of decrees and edicts we are shotgunned rigid policies. So, let's call a duck a duck. President Trump is only a red herring or symptom of decline. I am not suggesting sedition but as retired U.S. Army, I can see us marching towards WWIII absolving America's anachronistic political structure as the culprit and blaming some foreign "enemy" for our ultimate demise. Who does this nation even have left to recruit from that isn't alienated or disenfranchised. And what "values" exactly that the USA loves to throw around. More like, 'Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...'
