The first announcement by the new press secretary begins the official pull-the-wool-over-their-eyes of the new administration: http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/wh-spokesman-gave-alternative-facts-inauguration-crowd-n710466. It’s pretty sad that it had to be about a silly, unimportant non-issue. The size of the inauguration crowd? That’s your first official lie? Seriously?
Please note: lies are now called “alternative facts.”
From now on, news will be what Trump says it is. Facts are only facts if he approves them. Legitimacy only exists at his say-so. His followers will loudly insist his truth is truly true, and the rest of us only hate and envy him.
Okay.
I do not see how a democratic country can survive this. When truth and lies switch places, and trust no longer exists, there is no recovery.
Perhaps the next generation, or the one after that, will be able to rise above it and bring the country back to sanity. I’m sure people despaired of life ever recovering from the destruction of WWII, yet the following generations worked and scraped and built a better world.
The new world never did come close to perfection, and now we’ve lost much of it, with the rest of it ready to fall to Europe’s new nationalism. But for a while there was real hope and real progress.
We need to tell that to our children and grandchildren. I’ve even got a great-grandchild who needs to know that truth is not what the new language says it is. They need to know that their elders screwed up their world and that if falls to them to fix it.
I don’t mean to say that we elders can just sit back and let the liars hang on to the golden ring. Not at all. We must never stop declaring the facts that are actually facts, and we must prove to our progeny that we will fight alongside them until we are dead.
But it will be up to a new generation to forge trust with each other, at a time when the pain and anger has faded somewhat.
Ours is lost.
Marlene Dotterer 
Last line –
Ours is lost. [missing the S in Ours]
I hope we’re not! I don’t want to agree with you.
See you soon.
It’s the editor in me!
Lyn 😉
Yeah, I just saw that. All fixed!
The movement to impeach has been launched. Seriously.
Harlan, is it just a “movement,” or is there actual legal steps happening?
Nothing definite, unless I have missed something. That the word is even being mentioned publicly is a positive step.
Never my President. I call him 45 or the resident. I give it around 90 days.
I hope you are right, Ann. I don’t think the Repubs in Congress have the balls to actually impeach. Indeed, they may not want to, except that they’ll get everything they want with Pence, without the BS. But with Pence, they may not get a fascist government, and perhaps they secretly want that. More power for them.