Star Wars - A Cold War in the Sky

 Base Realignment and Closure, while attempting to feign integrity and conservation, now has become a metaphor for the GOP.  Perhaps closing smaller military installations and combining others appeared to be helpful for budgetary reasons, but the monopoly which resulted was a shopping list for the GOP.  Star Wars in the ill begotten Reagan administration was on the list.  Warfare in space.  It is raging today, and we just don't know about it.  Private space companies flying sorties of unknown origins now almost continuously.  Littering our sky with boatloads of flying junk mostly to surveil the American people.  Because of 9/11 we rationalized this scrutiny with searching for terrorists.  Terrorists!  The American people are so in debt, needy, and desperate, no one has time to think about assassinating a politician.  In past decades it was commonplace.  Now the Cold War is covert, and we don't know who the enemy is.  Spying on Americans is absurd, wasteful, and conceited.  It gives Ross McNutt his purpose and the rest of the defense industry.  They pitch these high tech baubles to the Pentagon, and pick the pockets of the American people.  They are suppose to protect us from communism, and yet we are on the brink of another civil war.  The GOP wants to ascribe leadership to a Mob boss.  Vladimir Putin killed Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a thug and convicted criminal who was working for the Kremlin.  That's how they do it in Russia, a communist nation.  He threatened Putin with his Wagnerian army, and like all good communist dictators he took him out.  In America our skirmishes are using the media, Big Brother.  The members of the GOP are so weak and spineless, they hire MAGA extremists to intimidate covertly.  They use death threats for the courts.  They use red tape for political diversion.  They scheme and they scam, and so far it has worked.  America is ready to move on.  I'm not sure we even remember what pleasantry is.  Not having to scrimp day to day for your survival.  I am in war mode, and I can't get out of it.  As long as Donald Trump remains in the limelight, America will grovel at his level.