KRASNOV's wrecking ball has both, material and spiritual, sides of destruction.

[UTUSN]

From Day 1 in 2015 (before taking actual power) KRASNOV set upon undermining the people's trust in institutions - a "spiritual" enterprise. Since people with personal knowledge have said he never expected to win and was not confident enough during the first term to go all out with his nefariousness, he still had a vestige of belief that governmental powers could protect itself against him. All that went away by the time of the second term, although he continued to chip away at the people's belief system via stewing his resentment during the four years away.

The wrecking ball in the second term has gone visible, literally, as he destroys the material symbols of the country's buildings and the goons on the streets and soon the cries of hunger.

*** In the early '70s, when the leftover Hippies were into the multi-alternate thought systems (spiritual) - scientology, Buddhism, Jesus Freakism, touchy-feely-this/that, along with the physical tools (material) of drugs, vitamins, physical yoga, and health foods, when I mentioned to my very elderly, ivory tower professor/sponsor something to the effect that things like that were going on out there, he was *SHOCKED* at the effrontery, said with the last gasp of the past that there was a difference between *SPIRITUAL* states (via Literature, Philosophy) and *MATERIAL* means (physio-biological chemical).

So KRASNOV has done the "spiritual" wrecking ball (undermining insitutions and belief in democracy and constitutional principles) and now the "material" wrecking ball (tearing down the buildings, monumental knickknacks).

[Marthe48]

1. In my own world

I don't believe a word out of his mouth, and I share that opinion as often as I can.

I do kind things in my personal life that refresh my spirit, because I refuse to succumb to his abuse and cruelty.

Hang in there. We shall overcome.

[UTUSN]

2. I love your About, "I block people who post rude responses."

My alternative way is not to Block or Ignore because I think it's better to know than not to know (what defines them), "Knowledge is power." And I"m just not a good enough human to deal with them, so I look and skip past them. I am refreshed by your good thoughts, thanks.