I apologize to David Cooper for having focused on Trump’s distracting behaviors rather than what he is doing behind those distractions.

Trump’s now-departed but still influential political strategist Steve Bannon once stated that his objective was the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” e.g., the Social Security and Medicare programs.

Trump’s other targets include the State Department, where, according to Foreign Policy magazine, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hollowed out and marginalized said department. So too did Tillerson force the departures of State Department employees who were not sufficiently loyal to King Donald, a practice that Mike Pompeo has continued.

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was forced out because, although she was eager to imprison children in cages falsely, she resisted the nativist Trump’s demand to close the US-Mexico border. She also rejected Trump’s desire to fortify his proposed border wall with a water-filled trench complete with snakes and alligators and to shoot the legs of migrants.

Perhaps the most ominous development on the domestic front has been the disempowerment of the EPA, where, amongst many other such things, regulations that once prohibited coal capitalists from dumping their coal slurry into lakes, rivers, and streams have been eviscerated.

The goal of all of this is to create a diminutive government that would be nothing more than an appendage of the capitalist system. Think about it. Have you ever thought that politicians are no longer as effective as they once were and that the government is now powerless to resolve socioeconomic problems?

It is because (real power) now rests in the hands of those who own and control the economy — capitalists and their henchmen who are cannibalizing the political sphere and placing we workers on a collision course with serfdom.

Guy Marsh

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