COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JILL ABRAMSON IN THE
GUARDIAN
After a year of Donald
Trump, there is still hope amid the horror
I still do not see the focus on Trump.
He's awful, obviously.
But he is only a small part of dark and dangerous things
going on in the United States, including a military-security empire close to
out-of-control and definitely working around the clock to bring back the Cold
war and perhaps worse.
Besides, all of his ugliest qualities - from xenophobia to
stupid speech - are shared by many tens of millions of Americans. America has a
rather huge population of such people in its trailer parks, its NASCAR meets,
its customers of gun traders and dealers, and in its Aryan churches.
And on top of that crowd, we have some of the world's most
violent police and prison guards, raging gang wars, people staggering around
zonked out of their minds on drugs, and the greatest prison population in the
world.
I think the effort to make Trump into a "Oh, how grand
things could be if only he were gone" phenomenon is unperceptive and
extremely dangerous.
