Bubbling Together

BY NOW nearly every red blooded aware American realized that in our current culture, we all tend to create and live in our own little fantasy world, along with our firmly held convictions and beliefs. Our own bubble, often formed with the influence of social media, and, of course, our ever present corporate masters. We hear only what we want to hear, and believe only what we want to believe, all evidence to the contrary. The price we usually pay for this is the truth. I heard it from an ostensibly sane source that soon, very soon, a great amount of previously unknown, withheld information is going to come to light, which will put Trump and his administration in a whole new light, perhaps even to the point of explaining or justifying some of its very weird, seemingly unethical behavior. Actually, the only new soon to come to light information will come from Mr. John Bolton, and it most probably will not reflect favorably on the president. At some point, Trump supporters are going to have to give up the ghost, as Hitler and Nixon people did before, albeit many only with great reluctance. Bolton may help a little, if not much. Its easy. Merely proclaim your undying love of God, America, conservatism, and the G.O.P., admit you made a minor mistake, and move on. Eventually, you can claim to never have supported him (Trump) in the first place. Meanwhile, accept a few fundamental facts. Donald Trump was never and still isn't remotely qualified to be president. Climate change is not a Chinese hoax, Nor do windmills cause cancer. Nobody knows whether there is life on other planets, yet. We've developed a rather alarming tendency in America to render absurd assertions with a sense of great certainty, without even the faintest trace of supporting evidence. Shame on us. Let us return to some semblance of fact supported reality. There is no deep state, no government hidden within a government, only about two million poor hapless joe schmoes who go home exhausted every night, and often a bit bewildered. We call them "government workers". Nor is there any cabal of super secret super wealthy elite pulling all of our strings. What there is is a corporate plutocracy, in firm control of the economy and political system, a plutocratic corporate oligarchy, in plain sight, against which we the people can either organize and resist, or which we can ignore in preference to our own little fantasies of some deep state and an extraterrestrial conspiracy, while voting for maniacs like Trump.