Etiquette redux

Office  of·​fice | \ ˈä-fəs  Noun  A place where we are on our worst behavior.
synonym: see  restaurant, public restroom, automobile, court room.

Nation Building

America is just no good at nation building.

The Philippines, the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, the Korean War, the humiliating helicopter exit from Viet Nam, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the Contras of Nicaragua, and Iraq weren't lesson enough. Each incident ended up building dictatorships or other undemocratic totalitarian regimes in the guise of republics. The closest thing to democracy these nation building missions managed to accomplish were banana republics.

Even within its own borders, nation building among native Americans has been a dismal failure. Instead of nations, Indian reservations have become synonymous with poverty, crime, and failure.

America has forgotten the foundation that it was built on. Colonial Americans grew fed up with remote foreign mismanagement of their domestic affairs which they had managed on their own since the first day the Old World left them stranded in the New World: us versus them.

We are longer the little guys battling big guy domination. US has morphed from the we into them.

What goes 'round comes 'round

Don't let your head be turned by compliments.

Today's accolade may be tomorrow's epithet.

Will the Circle be Unbroken?

Back when America was just getting started, being called "American" was an epithet that stood for uncultured, ignorant, and boorish.

Fast forward to the middle of the twentieth century, "American" stood for all things refined, wise, and altruistic.

Scarcely half a century has passed, and "American" is back to uncultured, ignorant, and boorish.

Will the circle be unbroken by and bye?

Reality check

The Postmodernists, Nihilists, or Leninists as one - Chief White House Strategist and Senior Executive Council referred to himself - who want to bring everything down into chaos don't get what FDR did when he created the New Deal to inspire confidence in the government:

What they would tear down is the very thing that enabled them to acquire and keep the wealth and privilege they so jealously guard.

Tear it all down, and they stand to loose everything they have with no hope of regaining any of it.

Reality check

The madness of it all:
The death of truth.
Truth supplanted by alternative facts of the moment.
What's to save mankind from plunging the planet into chaos?
The very thing mankind denies: climate change.

State of the POTUS

President POTUS:

A bleached-blonde Bob's big boy after one too many burgers and one too few psych meds .