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Chris Hedges recently argued on Truthdig::
The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept – it is thathttps://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02...s-of-king-don/
he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites.
They get what they want.
They do what they want…
Trump, who has no inclination or ability to govern,
has handed the machinery of government over to the bankers, corporate executives, right-wing think tanks, intelligence chiefs and generals.
They are eradicating the few regulations and laws that inhibited a naked kleptocracy.
They are dynamiting the ins utions, including the State Department, that served interests other than corporate profit and are stacking the courts with right-wing, corporate-controlled ideologues.
Trump provides the daily entertainment;
the elites handle the business of looting, exploiting and destroying…
He is useful to those who hold real power in the corporate state, however much they would like to domesticate him.
Trump’s bizarre ramblings and behavior…serve a useful purpose. They are a colorful diversion from the razing of democratic ins utions.
As cable news networks feed us stories of his trysts with a porn actress and outlandish tweets,
the real work of the elites is being carried out largely away from public view.
The courts are stacked with Federalist Society judges,
the fossil fuel industry is plundering public lands and the coastlines and ripping up regulations that protected us from its poisons, and
the Pentagon, given carte blanche, is engaged in an orgy of militarism with a trillion-dollar-a-year budget and
about 800 military bases in scores of countries around the world.
America is ed and un able.
notice how he didn't say he cares about his country
