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The LameStream Media,’ Trump recently tweeted, ‘is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope it will be detrimental to my election success.’ —billmoyers.com

The country descends into chaos as the insane spectacle of the president’s lying about the true dangers posed by the pandemic encourages his believers to place not only their lives in danger but also the lives of those near them. With trump as their cheerleader, they rise in protest of the stay at home rules they perceive as nibbling away at their right to free assembly and self-determination as they clamor for their governors to accede to their demands and foolishly return too soon to business as usual.

They are as children acting on faith that their “leader” knows the “way“ to proceed, mindless of the fact that he himself is nothing but a frightened child thrust into a position totally beyond his ability or even his capacity to negotiate. Willful or not, trump’s blindness to his inadequacies is taking a toll on us all, yet his children continue to sing his praises as if he were some long, sought-after savior ordained by God to rescue them from their infinite sorrows, totally unaware that, for some of them, he only signals their ultimate doom. Sad beyond belief and worthy of some Shakespearean tragedy, the drama unfolding before us portends Darwinian outcomes as the perverse piper parades his people further and further from the safe harbor of sanity.

Tim Konrad