Fake News

It is interesting that "fake" news has been in the news.  After America's presidential election all I seem to see is fake news.  Rather it is not fake.  It severely is politically biased.  Sometimes it is erroneous stemming from the partisan desire to slander the political enemy.  While national news coverage of the Trump transition has been unbiased, Internet news and social media have shown their true colors.  I do not take the newly elected president too seriously.  If one did, it could be a descent into severe depression.  Today society, with its state-level legislative shenanigans, makes it difficult enough to find hope in America.  Instead I choose to see Donald Trump as a catalyst for real change in American government.  His triumph over the Democratic party has pointed out to me that the democrats and what they now represent are a large part of the problem.  I find his associations through the Trump businesses and brand to be refreshing.  I know that Vladimir Putin highly is not popular with the outgoing Obama Administration.  Clearly I remember Ronald Reagan's success at ending the Cold War and bringing down the Berlin Wall.  These were major achievements in civility, and having Russia as an ally, not an enemy, allowed the decade of the l980's to flourish with creativity, artistry, and peace.  I prefer to remember this relationship with Russia with Mikhail Gorvachev at the helm.  Although Vladimir Putin was the head of the KGB, I will not incriminate him without evidence more than hearsay spread by malcontent and petulant Internet news agencies.  I do not see the preexisting relationships an oil tycoon has with Russia as counterproductive to State Department policy.  It points out to me that government in the last eight years has failed to function even with Barack Obama at the helm.  While I do believe the execution of Osama Bin Laden and the passing of the Affordable Care Act were notable accomplishments, our federal government did very little to help Americans during his tenure as president.  This is one reason why Donald Trump was elected.  Frankly I find his views to be refreshingly anti-establishment, and our American federal government replete with narcissism, senility, and dysfunction needs to be shaken up.  It is happening, and it is good.  When I hear incumbent lawmakers complain that Donald Trump brings a savvy business perspective to Washington, what is wrong with that?  What is wrong is that Washington has been fleecing the America people for way too long.  It is brilliant that Trump thumbed his nose as Boeing and their padded federal contract.  It is brilliant that Trump thumbed his nose at Lockheed Martin with their inflated prices for the F-15 fighter.  Could five hundred billion dollars even be possible?  The best metaphor for Washington's ability to govern effectively is suggesting we spend tax payer's dollars investigating Russia's influence in the election.  The best metaphor for local government is spending seventy-five thousand dollars to pay for a study to see if an arts center is a good idea.  Government has been operating this way squandering real money for too long.  If a small percentage of tax payer dollars actually were spent for the appropriate things, America could be positive again.  Instead we must rise each day and observe our crumbling infrastructure, incapable Congress, and mongering corporations take money from those less fortunate.  Truly America has become a Third World Country.