The Dumbing Down Is Complete
As an old white male who grew up in the very conservative, very religious South, I saw this coming.
I saw how the uber wealthy realized that they must use religion to get the masses on their side.
But how?
How do you make greed sound good and diversity and care for the poor and weak sound bad?
Well, they created the concept of the “prosperity gospel” that preached that money and the love of it is good thing that is “ordained” by God.
Hell with The Ten Commandments and Jesus preaching about the money changers.
Greed, they must make the masses believe, is good.
And they did that with corporate and social media takeovers constantly peddling lies.
And a dumbed down populace, by and large, bought it.
Those of us who didn’t were condemned as woke, Communists, Socialists. Atheists, and “the other”.
Compromise and helping others became considered weak.
Uniformity is now in.
And by that, you must be white straight conservative Christian Republican to be truly valued in America.
Blacks, Hispanics, Gays, non theists, etc. are second class citizens (at best) and public policy should reflect that.
All that was needed was a charismatic charlatan tv show host to lead the way. They found an awesomely moronic useful idiot in Trump. The corporate media then did his cheerleading and created “alternative facts” when the messy truth got in the way.
Facts no longer matter or even exist.
America you are done.
You let them do this.
It is heartbreaking.
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Our nation has endured trials and tribulations of many kinds ever since it's inception.
Our nation will continue to endure trials and tribulations of many kinds.
Our nation will continue.
Our Freedoms are Reason's Children...
Which is why the reasoned among us will never desist.
The reasoned among us will always resist.
Because when delusion rules our freedoms cease to exist.
The Nazis want you to concede defeat.
Do not concede.
Conceding is a viscious cycle.
Acknowledging grief is as important as embracing what you love. You grieve for what is lost that you love and what may still be lost that you love.
Embrace what you love.
Celebrate what you love.
Moments are indeed as the sand in the hourglass.
Live in your moments, celebrate the life you have in the moments that you live.
Here's to the ongoing restoration of our representative democracy through our nation's incremental embrace of Reason's rule.
Above all... don't forget to laugh!
The OP history of events is correct, but the conclusion is not, as you rightly attest.
Nice graphics! 
more like you're done with it. But at least in your old age you have hope that others will make sure it's not done. And that's something.
God bless and keep you. 
