He Came Back Full Don

I have a Lionel .027 model train layout disassembled leaning up against a wall in our garage.  I was thinking about setting it up in the living room, because now I have room.  Our family had model train layouts most of our lives until I went to college.  It was a fun, fulfilling, interesting, and challenging hobby.  My father built the first few Lionel train sets, and one was elaborate.  It was the best Christmas present a son ever could want.  He built this L shaped layout in the bandroom at Terry Sanford High School and rented a U Haul trailer that got parked in the driveway Christmas Eve.  On Christmas day the layout was set up on our screened in porch on McGougan Road later to go into the attic.  Over the years a Christmas layout under the tree became a tradition, and when I came  home from sea to help my aging parents I decided to build another one from scratch.  It would run two locomotives at the same time.  Why would I be thinking about setting up this layout now?  The answer is there isn't much else worth thinking about at the moment in the lives of Americans.  We are not even treading water.  We are and have been being pulled under by an overt assault on the sanctity of American life.  Perhaps still we are a free people, but the necessary infrastructure of self-governance, democracy, is under attack in a class war.  The poor and what is left of the middle class are being attacked by a coalition led by our current President.  It is the only time I can remember when the elected governing body of a nation has chosen to turn against the people.  It is a coup, and in cunning stealth before our very eyes, Donald Trump is attempting to overthrow American democracy and replace it not with just authoritarian rule, but with what is becoming violent fascism.  Every conceivable conniving method is being employed in Washington to dilute governance by the people and replace it with totalitarianism.  With every bone in his body and since he could form a thought, Donald Trump has wanted to be the American dictator.  We have known this, and yet America elected him a second time signaling an obedience to this new form of government.  There is no other way to see it.  America voted "Red," and that red is Communism.  No one will say it, because it means over half of our population no longer covet and aspire to a free society of self-governance.  Somehow they think a violent, dictatorial, authoritarian society is preferable.  This would explain the recent campaign of Cancel Culture in America.  The goal is to erase the cultural history of America leaving behind no wisdom or model of life.  The nation of America would become free reign for the raping and pillaging of everyone and everything.  The people are reduced to peasantry, poverty, and survival while the elite rule from wealth.  This is not unfamiliar, but it is in America.  Why would I want to set up a Lionel .027 train layout in my living room?  Because there is nothing in the news that merits serious thought.  This tirade of Donald Trump does merit serious thought, but only in the most distracting and diverting way to average Americans seeking a well balanced quality of day to day life.  There is nothing of value happening in all of Washington, DC.  It is a covert war on the American people, and our federal government is a mockery of every principal established in the United States Constitution.  It makes me sick to read the headlines.  We know what Epstein did, and  he is dead.  To hear the words President and sex with underaged girls on a private island...  Monica Lewinsky had Bill Clinton on the front page of the paper for two years.  It is easy news.  There is no reporting.  There is no media.  It is just fodder.  It would seem this is what they have chosen to bring down The Donald.  Americans are willing to sacrifice their ultimate freedom, financial mobility, and opportunity to pledge allegiance to a cult leader, but we draw the line at having sex with our daughters.  To know that America, our home and our nation now is being run by fascists just looking out for themselves?  True dat, Homey.  It is here.