Thomas Paine’s 47-page pamphlet, Common Sense, took colonial America by storm in 1776, selling a half-million copies, warning neighbors that, without the rule of law, the country belongs to a king who wields absolute power.
He urged Americans to turn away from a world that gave one man absolute power:
“… in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”
On social media, Trump has crowned himself king, a smiling, giant golden statue to worship.
In Wisconsin, Elon Musk jumped around on stage, a cheesehead paying people $1 million to vote for a Republican justice to save civilization.
Seeking to profit from tyranny, Trump lied ruthlessly to win the presidential election.
Trump called tariff a beautiful word that would quickly bring down prices for regular Americans, also declaring never to touch Social Security, shameless lies, selling out the American people to accrue power and wealth for himself and his billionaire oligarch cronies, like Musk.
The CEO of Walmart says shelf prices are increasing, not decreasing, since Trump became President.
Musk says Social Security, an earned employment benefit, is a Ponzi scheme where those who complain are fraudsters.
They proclaim they seek to make our government more efficient by giving billionaires a trillion-dollar tax cut, stealing from Americans who are not billionaire oligarchs, the opposite of common sense.
Al Kitching
Port Angeles