by Wallace Garneau, America Outloud:

The United States of America is gone as we know it, and we are not going to get it back just by electing Donald Trump again.

Tucker Carlson recently said on the Joe Rogan show that several Federal elected officials have told him that our intelligence agencies have blackmail material on our elected officials and that our intelligence agencies use that material to control our elected officials. If we assume that Tucker Carlson is telling the truth (and we have no reason to think he is not), the implication is that our elected officials report to our intelligence agencies and not to the people who elect them. Given that our intelligence agencies have such information on quite literally every single one of us, there is no way for elected officials to fix this without seeing all of that blackmail material go public, destroying their reputations and careers – which is something some elected officials might be willing to do but that we will never see a majority willing to do.