Cowards in Suits

The reasons people enter the world of politics are as varied, and as personal, as one’s fingerprints.

For some, it’s altruism with a pinch of ego. Many want to help solve public problems or inequities, and are driven by a genuine desire to assist others by performing a civic duty. Most know it’s a part-time job that will last a relatively short period of time, and we’re lucky to have them. School boards used to be full of them.

Maga-world, on the other hand, has shown us with each passing day it’s much less about ideology or public service than it is ambition and power. This is a corrupt gang, led by a convicted felon, who have demonstrated in high definition that crooks and politicians just spend money in different rooms.

For some maghats, the power is based almost solely on fear. For others it’s arithmetic, and the latter pays a lot better. Why? Because fear only turns into contempt while the math is all profit.

In maga-world, the difference between a compliment and a warning is virtually indistinguishable.

It’s clear that the current crop of miscreants in D.C. want a subservient and uneducated public, willing to be owned. As of today, at least, that’s been accomplished for nearly one-third of the country.

Nights filled with overthinking, while days are vacant and emotionally numb (and here I’m talking about Congress.)

Pomp and circumstance is ornamental, and no one in history craves the florid and flowery more than the riffraff and trumpery of those living in this panorama of paper-thin egos.

The real deal has become a raw deal for the country, as the real subservience is now the territory of the maghats themselves, where whatever the law may say is much less important than intimidation and having a State media on the payroll.

Hemingway left us with a disturbing quote: “the glory of war is a lie sold by cowards in suits. Soldiers die screaming in their own filth while politicians cash a check.”

With more than a billion a day being spent on America’s latest undeclared war, history is proving him right.