Thank you. You get the ribbon award. And BTW, I was up in a 2-parent household and I'm sorry I had to know my father who wasn't much of one. Always exceptions to the rule. The whole point that I made which has gotten lost (as expected) is that inter-generational poverty breeds a much higher % of poor results bringing up children. It's just that way.

So here is a selection from my book, "Donald's Vanity Tantrums"

Why Are We All Screaming at Each Other?

The answer to this question may lie somewhere in how we elect our political leaders. Most members of Congress are owned and paid for by special interests working both sides of the aisle depending on which business or institutional clients they represent. The result is greater partisan divide in Congress which leads to less interest in the health and stability of the nation and more newly created laws that increase profits for their clients.

Corporations own America and use patriotism as the opiate for the masses to calm our sores and the people. Yes, We the People be damned. The unmitigated influence of big business (money) is unique in developed nations especially in Western Europe. A British journalist now headquartered in New York City recently lamented in a CNN article that our medical system was broken. I responded directly to his comments and he then asked me, “Why don’t you Americans rise up in rage and change things?” I replied that we have been whipped, divided, beaten and conquered. It’s not in the capacity of the defeated to structurally fix anything including gun control laws because we’ve been so thoroughly defeated.

The late Sen. John McCain once warned about this growing menace in America and he was able to sponsor and pass the McCain/Feingold bill in 2002 limiting soft money in influencing elections. But then the trusty ole conservative majority of the Supreme Court, those guys who purport to support individual rights until it restricts the super wealthy to gobble up even more wealth, decided that political spending was a form of free speech in Citizens United v. the Federal Elections Commission in 2010. This court ruling created new ways of corrupting the political process. Secret money returned and today we have a elected a most unstable individual.

Trump is simply the manifestation of government gone wrong because money has become the only decider. No principles. No ideology. No ethics. And now we have a dysfunctional, dystopian society in the purported Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Everyday Joe fears having a reduced income or no income at all. And what does Everyday Joe do besides augment his income with a part-time job at Walmart? As his puppet strings are yanked, he pulls the lever (the wrong one) that opens the trapdoor on which he stands with a rope around his gullet.