I wonder whether the extreme contempt that the current administration is showing to the American people, the cruel stripping away of hard-won rights and services that we all thought we could take for granted, is going to eventually lead to another time of active political protest.<\/p>\n
As I’ve mentioned earlier, the current U.S. president, in his narcissistic way, is apt to respond to a rainy day by firing the weatherman — just as he responded to a jobs report he didn’t like by firing the hapless employee whose desk it had landed on.<\/p>\n
But he and his equally corrupt enablers might eventually find out a deeper truth: When an entire nation realizes that you have betrayed them just to line the pockets of you and your wealthy friends, it doesn’t take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wonder whether the extreme contempt that the current administration is showing to the American people, the cruel stripping away of hard-won rights and services that we all thought we could take for granted, is going to eventually lead to another time of active political protest. As I’ve mentioned earlier, the current U.S. president, in … Continue reading “The Gilded age, part 4”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27725,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27723\/revisions\/27725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}