The Banana Republics of America

 In the spirited true sense of multitasking, of which men notoriously are supposed to be less capable than women, intersecting plot lines are interesting.  President Barack Obama candidly explained that solving the complex problems of the Presidency was his most enjoyable aspect of the job.  Traditionally this is how the American Presidency has been construed until now.  In 2016 the American Presidency became a television game show, and the United States became a loosely bound conglomeration of tobacco republics.  We are not a tropical nation, but we may be in the near future.  With the onset of Climate Change (or more accurately Global Warming) tropical-like temperatures are migrating up the Mississippi River like New Orleans jazz musicians escaping the Jim Crow segregation of the American South.  It is inevitable, and with this temperature increase follows the perils of such a specific climate.  North America is not adept at mitigating the pathogens of a warmer climate, although we all can agree that warmer temperatures are an asset to certain specific manufacturing processes.  This is not rocket science.  Two specific examples come to mind.  One is the rendering of animal proteins for pet food, and the other is the production of vegetable oil.  In addition the manufacturing of polyester resin for plastic drink bottles benefits from warmer temperatures in the environment in transporting the raw materials to and from the plant.  These are givens in American Capitalism, and yet they simmer unknowingly from the consciousness of most citizens.  Warmer temperatures are not viewed as detrimental to human life, but without adequate monitoring and subsequent regulation the potential exists to fuel a full blown world pandemic.  Hence the Coronavirus.  No mention has been made of a connection between increased temperatures and human pathogens, and yet instinctively we all understand that fungal infections are fueled by heat and moisture.  Also no mention has been made in the mainstream media that many of the deaths attributed to Covid 19 in actuality are the result of mycosis, a disease caused by any fungus that invades the tissues causing superficial, subcutaneous, or systemic disease.  Those suffering from the effects of the Coronovirus should be treated with antifungals to address this underlying issue.  Unfortunately by the time these incredibly ill patients reach the ER, often they are beyond saving.  This is the shock and horror of this current pandemic, and no one much is helping.  Front line workers (as they have been anointed) or rather EMS workers, a compliment of paramedics and their accompanying hospital support systems, no little about what they are treating.  Merely they are trying to maintain the lives of their patients.  In previous generations such ignorance would have been inconceivable in America, the medical irresponsibility of the establishment.  We have seen in the last few decades the deterioration of human morals fueling this irresponsible behavior.  America since the election of George W. Bush has become the "Old West" and anything goes.  It is pure survival, and common Americans are losing on a massive scale.  Those winning are the rich, influential, powerful families behind such massive corporations as DuPont, Koch Industries, and Purdue Pharma.  They care nought about the little guy, which easily is witnessed on the Wall Street Markets.  This open disdain for the sanctity of human life has run rampant culminating in political disdain of federal American leadership.  We are so blinded by the media's spin and rhetoric in their necessary vie for ratings, American life has been sacrificed.  Human life in every conceivable concoction has suffered.  Most importantly the healthy sexual dynamic of gender, a once accepted and well understood foundation of human happiness, has been assaulted by a guerilla band of egocentric male marauders damaging American life.  How is it conceivable that Cliff Huxtable, America's African-American television dad, enjoys drugging young white women and raping them in front of his wife?  How is it conceivable that Harvey Weinstein has been able to use his power as a movie executive to do the same to aspiring young actresses?   This is an abomination, and yet it has proliferated in America.  In reaction the white American male has become Satan.  The recognized architect of much of humankind has been dethroned, and gender as a postulate in personal life has been questioned, soiled, and manipulated.  No one seems to know what they are or what they want.  What is jazz?  How can any civilization survive with such an assault?  How could democracy survive a domestic siege led by the sitting President of the United States?  We sit complacent in our homes under attack from a foreign disease, as the President of the United States mounts a coup of the federal government during an active session of Congress.  Still the media has yet emphatically to state that the stealing, concealing, or destruction of the certificates of authentication from each state for their chosen slate of electors was the goal.  If they had been successful in commandeering this set of documents, it is likely the certification of Joe Biden as President-elect would not have occurred.  Perhaps the saving of these documents was the most heroic action of Trump's presidency.  We do not know who did this.  What we do know is that the American system worked, the infiltrators eventually were subdued, and Congress returned to finished their business certifying the new President.  Rest assured this moment, this action, was the turning point in Donald Trump's perspective and former refusal to concede his office.  He performed a pirouette on a dime and immediately changed his tune professing that the insurrection should wane and a peaceful transfer of power should ensue.  It was too late.  What has failed in America is the system of check and balances provided by the states.  In this national debacle the weaknesses and lack of leadership of state governments is in full view.  We were not aware that America has become a loosely knotted conglomerate of tobacco republics.  Perhaps disguising the racism, prejudice, and discrimination of the American South has been the goal.  Georgia set the shining example for the challenge of this century fully accepting its attack upon voter rights, countering this full frontal assault, and flipping the state for both the President and the Senate.  It is a marvel, a miracle of modern times which will go down in history as one of the most formative progressive political actions in American history.  With it Mitch McConnell and his staid, anachronistic, and blind allegiance to a tainted Republican party has been taken from power.  No longer will the deception of the Republican party be allowed.  There is one thing left to do to tie the knot of this watershed event.  It is the second impeachment of Donald Trump, but this time successfully implemented by a majority of the Senate under the urging of the new majority leader, Chuck Schumer.  If this action necessarily must be delayed for a few months to ensure the effective distribution of the Coronavirus vaccine across America, then okay.  It is a necessary action.  Donald Trump cannot be allowed to step down from the Presidency with blood on his hands.