Putting America First, and Making It Great, ...Again

IN OUR NEW NARCISSISTIC NATIONAL NARRATIVE, we must make America great again. We must make it great, again, the way it once was, but now no longer is, but can and will be again. Accordingly, the reason America is no longer great is because it has been neglected and abandoned by its elite national political leaders in the district, who have only been looking out for themselves, not the rest of us nor the nation as a whole. After all, it was the elite political class which brought us free international trade, luring American corporations away from home, making Ross Perot's giant sucking sound audible. Furthermore, goes our melodramatic if illusory trumped up national fantasy, America has been doing more to help other nations than its own people, defending foreign borders rather than its own, making other nations wealthy at the expense of its own wealth, generally putting others ahead of itself so self sacrificially that it has neglected its own health and prosperity. The United States of Altruism. A perfect paradigm for a nation of narcissists for whom facts are selected, simultaneously self aggrandizing and pandering. Oh, how noble and great we are, but how misguided we have been. When was America most recently great? Under Reagan? In the tobacco and martini drenched nineteen fifties? Whenever, we shall now put America first, and worry about saving the rest of the world if and only if there is any whitewash left over. In our new cyber surreal twittering world, we omit mention of the inconvenient historical reality that the United states of Acquisition is, and has always been, a self promoting self serving plutocracy, for whom all exploitation of resources, foreign and domestic, natural and human, for power and profit, is explainable as acts of generosity. The multi billionaire Donald J.Trump, a true man of the people, especially the poor. Our new government of billionaires, putting us poor American's first, as we stand beneath and gaze upward, awaiting the trickle down with gratitude for our "populist" billionaire leaders..