No free press creates suckers

It’s useful to con men and circuses that “a sucker is born every minute.” But it takes more than suckers to be a successful circus. It takes elephants. When the ringleader claims he has the greatest show on Earth, you expect better than 3 Doors Down.

The GOP has lost its elephants. Any nobility once represented by this grand creature has been booted out of their tattered tent. Nothing’s left except hot air, no balloon; bloviating barkers, no dog; some clowns who lost their car and a fat, orange man who’s bamboozled some into believing he’s a great and powerful wizard.

Donald Trump pronounced he was going to build the greatest wall you’ve ever seen. Crowing into a huge crowd, “Who’s going to pay for it?” they shouted back: “MEXICO!” as he nodded and grinned in satisfaction. Now we’re informed he never promised the Mexican government would foot the bill.

King Trump brags that at his coronation it stopped raining and the sun came out as he began speaking to a fictitiously enormous crowd while poor George Bush huddled under a tarp for no apparent reason.

Abe Lincoln instructed, “You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Pat Moynihan declared, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

Contrarily, the Great and Powerful Trump dictates we’re entitled to alternative facts, to only watch Fox “News”, and that the free press must shut up. This scheme would make us all suckers to be fooled all the time, stranded atop a useless, unpaid for wall like a befuddled Humpty Dumpty anticipating the fall. No safety net and no health care to put us back together again.

–Wanda LaCroix,

Arlee