If you wish to tear down a democracy, you need to tear down its symbols. Until last Thursday, the White House was a beautiful and modest and symmetric symbol of our nation.<\/p>\n
Its sense of balance and lack of ostentation spoke to an ideal of the United States of America. It represented a government which understood that it belonged to the American people, and that in a democracy, a government exists to serve the will of its citizenry.<\/p>\n
Now, of course, that beautiful ideal has been demolished by an idiot child busily building his oversized idiot ballroom. It is a structure that does serve its stated purpose, since the president never holds events for 999 foreign dignitaries.<\/p>\n
Such an elephantine monstrosity is really more suitable for gathering your loyal supporters to hold your very own Reichsparteitag<\/i>, like the ones a certain other country used to convene in Nuremberg. I wonder how long it will take before he starts soliciting private donations to commission brown shirts and ties for the attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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