This is a sad commentary on the state of affairs we are facing. History is rhyming.

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It is mind boggling how rapidly the US is going down now. The Trump phenomenon is stunning. The response of Congress is shocking. There is no way this nation will ever again be the leader of the free world. There is no doubt whatever that Trump is deranged and is being allowed to continue his destruction of our nation by Congress. The Republicans have refused to put an end to the disaster and are treating it like a bad dream that they can quietly endure for political reasons.

Any sane interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" would have resulted in his impeachment long before now. The media have adopted an idiotic response to his daily unhinged actions. They conduct panel harangues by political supporters and surrogates that inevitably result in shouting matches.

The Trump phenomenon has frightening similarities to the rise of the Third Reich. How in hell did the framers of the Constitution fail to anticipate this? I'm reading The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The rise of Heydrich and the criminal insanity of all Hitler's top men has so many similarities to what we see here today. Whether Mark Twain said it or not, the statement, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes." is validated in the United States today.

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Authors Bio:

I am a retired physicist and hold a B.S. in Ch. E. as well. I have been an environmental activist since the early 1970s. I was a founding member of the Save Barton Creek Association in Austin, TX. In 2006 I was a member of a select committee of the Philmont Staff Association to advise Philmont Scout Ranch about opposing El Paso Natutal Gas's plan to drill and frack in the Valle Vidal in Carson National Forest. I studied the technology of horizontal gas drilling and the environmental effects associated with it. We defeated the plan proposed by El Paso Natural Gas. have been an active opponent of urban gas drilling in Fort Worth, TX since 2006. My present focus is global warming and the ominous effect of increasing atmospheric CO2.

I have been a writer of opinion pieces and other essays since about 1995 and am a published author of history of the old west. My book, Last Train To El Paso--the Mysterious Unsolved Murder of a Cattle Baron was published in 2014. I have had two articles published in Wild West magazine,. The most recent one, titled "How Jim Miller Killed Pat Garrett" was the lead article in the August 2018 issue.



I have studied monetary systems since 1968.



I am an owner of a home with mineral rights in Fort Worth, Texas. I am politically a progressive.