With the entire world watching Congress appear impotent, while our deranged President tells more than 9,000 lies, confidence in America's ability to be a rational player at anything, with anyone, declines.
This means they will feel a need to defend themselves against us, instead of working with us. Worse yet is that foreign intelligence agencies will play hard ball with us. State sponsored actor will have little trouble gaining or creating Kompromat against politicians, captains of industry and those they rely upon. There are just too many weak points to have people in high places with insufficient integrity, morals or trustworthiness, to make the honor system unworkable.
You can, I'm sure, imagine the hubris we are up against. With Trump appointing the worst people, who themselves are hiring the worst people, who are then doing sensitive jobs poorly. We are in trouble that only gets worse day by day.
A collection of articles defining our times. The pages contain clickable links, don't let the titles fool you, some of the best articles have very non-descript titles and there are usually more articles on the matters in the days and week pages the links land on so it's a sort of treasure hunt through history, Enjoy!
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