The great American heist.

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
~Frédéric Bastiat~

I think that we can all agree, that if certain leaders and elected politicians had their way, they would be plundering what little the rest of us have left, and robbing us blind.

We know this, because we can see what is being revealed about the trump crime family and the sycophants who surround them. Americans have always thought that their leaders were men and women who were called to service to help their fellow man. Men and women who felt the need to serve a higher purpose than themselves. They were people who felt a sense of duty to "serve" their country as a public servant. It's why you see all the reminiscing of the good old days with the passing of George H. Bush.

Throughout history, for the most part, they elected such people.  That is until they got hoodwinked by one Donald J. trump. He convinced them (like he has done so many time before with his many failed businesses) that he was the savior, and that he, and only he, could Make America Great Again. Now, sadly, reality is starting to set in.

Jobs are going abroad, plants are closing, interest rates are rising, and the Dow is crashing faster than a junky after an all night drug binge. Those poor farmers and trump supporters in flyover country who though that trump was their savior are all waking up to the cold reality that their lives are worse than it was before the orange con man came on the scene. They won't admit it right now, because their pride won't let them, but their families are feeling it, and pretty soon they will be forced to come to grips with reality.

Of course all of this doesn't matter to Mr. trump.  He is only in this thing to make money and to line his own pocket. He didn't run for president to serve the people and do the right thing. He ran for the office of the presidency to serve himself. When he won he saw an opportunity to enrich himself, and that's what he set about doing.

Unfortunately for him, though, America still has some checks and balances left, and those checks and balances gave us a  man named Robert Mueller. He is a man that Mr. trump is obsessed with discrediting, because he (trump) realizes that Mueller is the one person who can stop him from looting the store and getting away without having to face the music.

Sadly for all of us, it might already be too late.