The Velocity of Blind Governing

I don’t trust politicians or stairs. They’re always up to something.

Force in physics, is an action that causes an object to change velocity or its shape or, to resist other forces. Once a leading force around the globe, the United States has been reduced to the role of a stumbling toddler at the end of a leash held by its President.

Negative or misleading perceptions of the economy, scandals associated with Congress and the Judicial System, the brutality of enforcing new laws that most of the nation disagrees with, disrespects or holds in dissent, has driven the velocity of No. 47’s unpopularity. His ratings continue to plunge, and have led to a massive decline in public trust. Certainly, an erosion of the good standing other nations once held for this nation. Once upon a long time, most countries yearned to emulate America’s powers and ideas of governing. Not any more.

A journalist once asked Ghandi: “What do you think of Western civilization”? Ghandi: “I think it would be a good idea”.

In 2022, 40% of Americans declared they trusted the Federal government to do what was right (at least some of the time). Today, that number barely touches 9%: a profoundly historic low. Of the four C’s of Trust: COMMITMENT (following one’s intent), CARING (showing others matter), CONSISTENCY (reacting in a somewhat predictable way), and COMPETENCE (demonstrating an ability to meet one’s commitments); only the third element comes close to describing our despotic leader. And that standing simply relates to the grandiose, self-centered predictability of his right to violate and eliminate longtime laws that have protected the very pulse of America.

Rights to vote, to congregate, to speak and write freely, to protest peacefully, to education and human decency. A steamroller of ethics and democratic principles – ego-driven and fueled by self-empowerment. His advisors and cabinets watch him dangle the associate lives of crucial agencies, and merely blink at each destructive order. We’ve left the country in the hands of a guy addicted to brake fluid, bragging he can stop anytime.

Whenever a government suffers or struggles, its leaders are always to blame. For a government that handles trillions of dollars a year, one would think a certain poise or basic capability mortared it. In the past two years, a quarter of a million federal workers from more than a dozen established agencies, saw their longstanding, national roles eliminated.

Once can easily look up the records online. The abbreviation “RUP” that rests next to a leading individual’s name stands for: “RESIGNED UNDER PRESSURE”, and appears steadily on nearly every line. Almost a hundred thousand more individuals accepted “buyouts”, rather than let the government reduce them to rubble: fiscally, professionally and emotionally.

The rape represented a massive, capricious culling from bureaus that have historically served as stellar defenders and support organizations, fundamentally protective entities, without consideration for whether their loss and elimination was critical or what debris its aftermath would create. One can only gape at their apparent blindness nefarious ignorance.

The list of those gutted agencies is painful to read, let alone fathom as necessary or smart in any regard: the Department of Education, of Homeland Security, the U.S. Agency for International Development, FEMA, the Department of Energy, IRS, the Department of Defense, of Veteran Affairs, of Health and Human Services. The Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior, of Energy, of Small Businesses… and the list grows.

We the people are victims and voiceless. Not that our voices cower, but that they are treated like gnats: swatted at and mockingly flung away. Like being cocooned in an abusive family scene, we can only watch from our hidden corners as our so-called leaders charge around like raging bulls and aim at the principals we once held sacred, once imagined were untouchable.

As this gang government gleefully berates the air and our independence, our very histories, demolishes our future standings of an international regard; we can only bemoan the loss of out country’s once steadier and warm embrace.

America should have learned, should have known – never date or elect an apostrophe. They’re too possessive.