Two Hundred and Twenty

As soon as the 2016 election was won and lost, everyone began campaigning for the 2020 election, without a pause.  Government used to pause while elections were held.  Now elections are endless because there is no government.  

When the USSR collapsed, I knew the USA would be next.  Now all that seemed solid melts into air, all that seemed holy is profaned, and Man is at last compelled to face, with sober senses, his real conditions of life and his relations with his own kind.

The cities are crumbling, the planet's dying and all our elected representatives do is plunder the body politic.  Our elected representatives never did represent us, but now they don't even bother to pretend they govern, much less that they govern in our name and represent our interests.  

The rich reign, but do not rule.  There are no rulers any more, and no rules.   Why has it come to this?

It was always going to come to this.  We’ve always been a destructive and self-destructive species because we never knew what we wanted.  We never knew ourselves well enough to know what we wanted.