This Old House: Trump’s Plan to Destroy America

Are you a homeowner? If you’re reading this, probably not. Who can afford a house these days? In this climate? In this economy? In this generation?

But, do your best to imagine what it’s like to own a house.

Now imagine how you would go about systematically ensuring its inevitable destruction.

We’re not talking bulldozers and dynamite, but the more gradual removal of every protective measure, every piece of structural security, to essentially guarantee that it will all but collapse on its own.

Start by removing the siding and the tiles, so that the walls and roof are exposed to the elements, unencumbered and free to be lashed and pummeled by wind, rain, and snow. Then crack or straight up shatter the windows, let a healthy breeze in. Walk through the house with a power saw, segmenting anything that looks a bit too sturdy and vertical. Bust open the walls so that the electrical wiring and plumbing are exposed, and, thanks to how hogwild you’ve gone with the sledgehammer, all good and dented, cracked, and frayed. Next, go about filling your house with old newspapers and uncapped canisters of gasoline. Now, just sit back and wait. It won’t happen immediately, but when it does, it will be a hell of a thing to witness, and will seem almost predestined.

This is essentially what Trump and his ugly boy billionaire squad are doing with the country. They’re dismantling and sabotaging governmental functions and institutions with the obvious and inevitable goal of bringing all of it down in a pile of debris and roar of flames.

The average person won’t notice the effects of Trump’s policies immediately. They could

go on living in this increasingly shitty house for years, as paint and wood are worn away to be replaced by mold, and a portion of their daily lives is occasionally inconvenienced by little leaks, outages, and fires. Like stupid proverbial frogs in a slowly heating pot, they won’t notice they’re being cooked. They won’t notice that their house is going to shit and becoming a death trap.

Much of what Trump and his kind do is for obvious profit motives. The obscenely wealthy have a mental disease which makes them intent on bleeding every bit of wealth from everyone else and enslaving or exterminating the working class.

Much of what he does is for petty cruelty and stupidity. He has no interest in doing anything to actually benefit the majority of morons who voted for him, but he’ll happily give them crumbs, in the form of erasing the rights of trans people, or pretending that the Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America, as if that accomplishes or means anything.

But he also seems particularly driven to destroy the country, and as much of the world as

possible, by implementing policies ensuring our collective doom. Actions such as withdrawing from the World Health Organization and putting a neurologically-compromised conspiracy quack in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services will all but ensure that we will be afflicted with new and worse pandemic diseases, as well as some classics, and will be ill-equipped to respond to them. Overhauling or abolishing FEMA, an admittedly flawed organization, and leaving disaster responses entirely to the states in which they occur, will all but guarantee that many states will be decimated and perhaps cease to exist. It’ll be all the more likely that state-decimating disasters will occur, too, because Trump, in addition to symbolically withdrawing (again) from the Paris Climate Accord, he’s dismantling every policy and regulation that could conceivably do even a tiny bit of good to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis.

Like a house that has been severely damaged and is chock full of mold and combustibles, so will be the United States under the Trump administration, full of disease, destitution, and poised on the edge of destruction. There can be no other result of his actions, no reason for his actions other than the intentional destruction of the country.