Root of All Imbeciles
Lots of post-mortem essays appear in various “news” sources these days. I’m going to go ahead and blame global capital for the mess that has driven Americans to unprecedented levels of national stupidity.
Global capital is rootless. Rootless capital uproots people and communities, particularly in single-industry communities in red states.
Uprooted people do stupid things, like turn over the car keys to degenerate imbeciles, crackpots and oligarchs.
So, there it is. Fix that one, Chuck Norris.
Craig J. Corsini
San Rafael
Shakespearean Tragedy
Before the inevitable palace intrigues commence and the media begins comparing the soon-to-be backstabbing Trump administration to Shakespearean tragedy, please realize that Trump’s cruel and dangerous outrageousness could not, even by Shakespeare (who is deft at turning swine into pearls), be fashioned into anything noble, wise, eloquent or courageous.
Please just call Trump what he is: a greedy, white-collar hooligan who has initiated, for his own profit, the tragedy of democracy’s demise.
Rob Loughran
Windsor
