For now, our country has a boy-king of inherited wealth who was not raised to care about others, unless they serve his needs. A pathologically privileged president who recognizes no laws or boundaries to his will or wants. A man who sees the presidency as a brand and government as a family franchise.
Trump’s obsequious high court in the Senate continues to co-enable the ruthless, rich-kid king.
Ridicule, racism, denial, high-handed indifference to any suffering but one’s own — these are the now very visible scars of privilege.
Wealth is not health. It is a great illusion. Wealth, like power and fame, is transitory. It is a momentary buffer against the ultimate limit—mortality.
Every day our country is recognizing this as the tragic pandemic death toll rises - and we discover that our president has long publicly denied this “plague” was upon us. Because of his denial and disbelief, we are now a privileged nation that leads the world in pandemic deaths.
This election is about what we will make of ourselves - and for our children. How will growing up in this amoral universeof the pathologically privileged Trump continue to shape them?
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