John Funiciello

He thinks that he has been exonerated, but there are millions of citizens who know of his wrongdoing, his unethical behavior, and his outright crimes against peoples and nature.

If the plan, announced this week by U.S. President Donald Trump, were to be carried out, it would mimic South Africa's apartheid system, subjugation of the majority of that country's people.

It's time for real history, not the mythological history of great and powerful leaders and the conquerors and the rich. What is important is for all Americans to know what the people have paid to make this country what it is. It's time for them to share in its largess.

It's one thing to contemplate the seeming contest between electronic communications and communicating by personal letter (the USPS), but there still remains the question of powerful interests that wish to make irrelevant the Postal Service, so there might not be even the possibility of trying to reconcile the two.

Trump has tried his best to emulate the world's strong men, but there remain some laws in the U.S. that prevent his acting on his impulses, although he has managed to turn the American electorate, at least a large part of it, into a bobble-headed crowd that takes his word as truth and law.

The nation is now run by the few and democracy, what's left of it, is slowly circling the drain. Trump is the symptom, not the cause, but he is dangerous to the concept of democracy, since he would rule like an autocrat if he were able. A dictionary definition of autocrat is “ruler who has absolute power,” but the second definition describes Trump's take on business and government, as well as the society at large: “someone who insists on complete obedience from others; an imperious or domineering person.”

This president is taking the nation further down the road to perdition that it has been traveling for some time. No, Trump is not fully responsible for the state of the nation, but he has managed to push it over the edge, as an unthinking “leader” would, if he were thinking only of himself and his own welfare.

Despite the “experts” telling the American people that the economy is doing fine and the president, as usual, proclaiming that it is the best economy in the history of the country, the economy is not doing so well when the reality of it is taken into consideration, especially in light of the borrowing of trillions of dollars to balance budgets.