USA under presidency of a know-nothing, neo-fascist, racist, sexist, mobbed-up narcissist!!

[David Guyatt]

Plenty of people managed to live with the cognitive dissonance of the Democrats policies versus real world.

Yes, that is, of course, the flaw to some of these arguments.

Here in Blighty, until relatively recent times, it was a breach of the Official Secrets Act for a civil servant to even tell someone the colour of the carpet in his office - and we still still have a closed government system as far as the dissemination of information goes -- as the recent Polaris missile test fuck up showed.

Governments hate the very concept of "open government" and transparency because it severely hinders their opportunity to rob us all blind. In fact, I would argue that government is all about robbing us blind for their own benefit and the benefit of chums and businesses too, while at the same time maintaining a "sense" of order to ensure the public don't get too uppity and bring this whole tax-payer financed shadow play crashing down.

My take is that Trump is trying to retake the foreign affairs ground away from the all conquering zealotry of the disastrous Neocons - which I'm in favour of - but at the same time his elite faction intend to plunder just as much as they can - and that his presidency will be all to do with self enrichment and greed.

In other words it's going to be business as usual, but for a different elite faction.

Will it be any different from the days of the robber barons of Vanderbilt days? This is what historian, H J Stiles, said of that period"

...visions of titanic monopolists who crushed competitors, rigged markets, and corrupted government. In their greed and power, legend has it, they held sway over a helpless democracy.

Sounds much like the past several decades to me...