Is Any Media Trustworthy?

The amount of information coming at me these days is confusing. Do I believe the article I just read in the NY Times? Or how do I decipher the letter, attempting to read between the lines to find a nugget of what is happening? Maybe I should turn it all off because politics has become like weather; if you wait, it might change.

Then I talk to people who have a hand in the industries that have caved to Trump. The few people that I know at Columbia University are distraught, as they should be. I mean, WTF? Doesn’t Columbia have $400m in its coffers from years of alumni fundraising? The entire board should be ousted, they obviously do not know how to manage free thinking, aka one of our rights as Americans, at least we thought so. How about calling all the other universities and colleges across the country and join together. Where is our unity against the supposed king? We are a democracy. Our education is the best in the world, or maybe it isn’t.

Then there is the slaughter of the countless departments and more to come. Years ago, Sears brought in a new leader, and he slashed and burned the company to prepare for the next generation. He failed to tell the board that the company’s stock would probably go down 70% before it returned with a new generation Sears. Needless to say, it did not go well for him, or Sears.

The dismantling of the Government is head-spinning. Change is needed, but it would be nice if this White House crew knew a bit about how the Government runs. Not sure they know how to run private or public companies either. As someone who has been getting a first-hand education on how NYCHA is run, I firmly believe the Government should not be running programs and more. There should be boundaries and laws so non-profit organizations and private companies could oversee education, health (that should be non-profit and free), public housing, etc. The question the Democrats should be talking about is, how do we rebuild when the whole thing goes down in flames, including our friends who now hate us.

I believe in the law of the land because there is room for debate. The law should save us all. We need to unite and say no; we will not sit back and let Trump run for a third term or corrupt the system for himself. Put nothing past this guy.   

Stopping this is impossible because they do not care what we say. They firmly believe that everything should be privatized, and of course, I should toss in that small part of being run by an authoritarian. I am saddened by Columbia, the law firms, and the companies who have caved on DEI, and I will not do business with them but I am not going to believe much of what I read, because in the end, we will have to rebuild America, and what is that going to look like?