WAS: What Adults are Saying About the Last Ones to Know

Churchill told us who we were. Will we learn that before the end?

Churchill’s famous quote about America always being “…trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted” has applied to our people many times. A new application has emerged that may be the most dangerous yet. Outside of the country, 47 and his administration is rapidly burning through what remaining credibility the world held for the USA. Credibility that was once towering, strong, just and always showcased with a sense of fair-play and justice that America tried (and often failed) to pursue at home, dominated how the world viewed us.

Bu that was then and this is now and 47—version 2.0—is now torching the existential framework of many who could never imagine the country we now experience on a daily basis. Leaders and peoples elsewhere have viewed the same phenomena and rapidly reconciled that “47” and “leadership in democracy” are antonyms. Meanwhile Americans—as a group—continue navel contemplation on the matter. Buoyed by avaricious false prophets with deep vested interests in business, media, the academy, the law, health care and worse of all—the judiciary—would be “sides” continue to process whether 47 and his movement is truly democracy’s Lucifer. This latest gaggle of mind-numbing nonsense continues about a debate long settled in many domestic and almost all international corners.

As most of us shake our heads about America being the first country to devolve toward invertebrates, the international world uses its spine to increasingly see a new day without America as economic, political and moral leader. While our leaders actively ignore Supreme Court injunctions or enslave its own people, allies that are rapidly reaching for the “former” adjective have simply realized in the struggle to promote Democracy the United States is changing sides. Of course all of these far-flung foreigners—who on a comparative per-capita basis weigh less, smoke more, shun firearm ownership and more broadly practice authenticity—also laugh heartily at our demise with heaping amounts of schadenfreude. “Those silly Americans” they say, “forever worried about the outside enemy when their fall came from illiterate, bootlicking whores within.” Hardly the type of endorsement the Nobel committee will find useful unless a new category of national self destruction is started.

So if Churchill was right what are the implications of how, at what pace and with what more momentous nonsense Americans must experience before reversing its evolutionary pursuit? If a mind was once a terrible thing to waste can a spine not be far behind? They are part of the same system and when healthy, work like hand and glove. When and how did it become diseased? We have never been considered a bright people nor certainly a very efficient one. We are the type who might encounter a series of four, binomial choices only to proceed to miss them all in succession. While the mathematical probability of this is only six percent, colloquially, the rest of the world widely refers to this as the American approach to problem solving. That means the scale of the current political problem and the social chaos it creates is far above average in creating American pain.

Our modern pace of domestic danger response has two gears—slow and stop. The ridiculous way in which so many demand to live anonymously in our digital world ensures that. Any clearheaded statement about what is happening is instantly met with a dozen other alternatives about what could happen—like a meteor falling into your bedroom tonight at seven. As though defining all possible outcomes to all possible human behavior has some practical purpose in daily American life, vested interests line up in a circular firing squad to ensure everything remains as clear as mud. This way its hard to be believe in anything—the central anesthetic oppressors have used to shackle people for millenia.

This means the rest of the world can see what we can’t. What they see is by no means unprecedented on the world stage—even in recent years. But what is unprecedented is the USA as perps about something other than a military or bomb-dropping effort. That old go-to was always a bromide to sate the masses and remind us that even the dimmest among us could always string together the three letters which abbreviate our country. But now, that’s gone too. The only “bombs” being dropped right now are from the Oval Office onto its own people. Our race to the bottom is accelerating and in an odd way Churchill’s reminder infers we will find our way before its too late. Unlike any other time in the 80 years of Post-war order, that seems seriously in question.