A reflecting pool

The reflecting pool fiasco has become emblematic of the Trump regime's incompetence and deception. 

It would be almost comical were it not for the millions of Americans suffering under the current affordability crisis. A woman dying of cancer lives in her car as she contemplates how she got to this situation. 

The empire is over and Trump is Nero playing the violin as Rome burns. 

This has all been coming for decades and the people least deserving of the tragedy will bear the brunt of the excesses of the oligarchy class. 

This is a global problem but nowhere is it more exaggerated in a nation that believes failure is a personal sin. If you don't make it here it's because you weren't hard working enough. Never mind that most of the wealth in the country was inherited. 

I have learned more about the intricacies of human nature over the last ten years than during the previous twenty. This was largely due to getting a closeup and personal view of the combined gullibility, stupidity, grace and dignity of people. 

It all exposed itself under the watchful eye of a technology that never sleeps. We witnessed all of the minute details in real time as they unfolded.