Drain the Swamp?
President-Elect Trump promised to “drain the swamp”
referring to the political insiders in Washington, DC and, therefore, form a
government more main stream to make “American Great Again!” We all know that
campaign slogan. But like all politicians – and it doesn’t matter what side of
the aisle they are on – they lie and promise the work in order to get your
votes. President-Elect has also promised, after the election, to be the
President for everyone. Lo and behold, President-Elect Trump has appointed
Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, as his chief of
staff; Steve Bannon, President of Breitbart News as his Chief Advisor.
On one hand, Priebus represents the established political
machine in Washington, DC and rather than drain the swamp, he has added his
chief alligator to swamp. Bannon, is no better. As president of Breitbart News,
he is behind the racist, homophobic, bigot, anti-Semitic line of rhetoric
commonly printed in that “news” media. A new media supported by the like of the
head of the KKK.
Other appointments in key position of his Administration
reeks of political cronyism with his lead supporters being put forth as his
choices for various positions. Ironically, most of those positions are white
male (and let us not forget that a large number of administrative staff of
Obama’s were black males and females and a disproportionate number of whites –
so it works both ways).
These appointments were done to “pay off” the cronies that
supported him and in some cases exerted bullying technics to bring other
members of the Republican Party in line.
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