Years ago I read a book by Francis Fukuyama called Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity.

The basic point of the book as I understood it was that the quality of trust within a society — the ability of people to trust one another beyond the ties of family — was a driving factor in economic organization and ensuing prosperity. Probably creativity too!

If we can trust our fellow citizens, we don’t have to waste energy eyeing them in suspicion or setting up defenses against them.

Now we have a government that doesn’t give a damn about trust. Constant overwhelming lies issue daily from the Republican administration. They contradict themselves and they contradict the truth, constantly. Their corruption isn’t even hidden, and they have no concern whatsoever for the future of this planet. Who could ever trust these people?

Trump is Trump. His nature was obvious long ago and his behavior is no surprise. The surprise here is the spineless venality of every single Republican member of Congress. No exceptions. They have all failed in their Constitutional duties.

I’ve already voted. Regardless of what political party you once belonged too, I hope you take the advice of Max Boot, writing for the Washington Post, and “Vote against all Republicans. Every single one.”

From Paul Krugman:

If Dems win, we’ll have a constitutional crisis almost immediately. But if they don’t we basically lose the constitution https://t.co/bFp1TP1fG8

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 5, 2018

Posted on: Monday, November 5th, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Categories: Events.