This is not America by Roger Cohen

[AmericanActivist]

So many wonderful words in this article. Thank you Roger Cohen.

It begins with this:

Dec. 22, 2017
If this is America, with a cabinet of terrorized toadies genuflecting to the Great Leader, a vice president offering a compliment every 12 seconds to Mussolini’s understudy, and a White House that believes in “alternative facts,” then it is time to “keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/opinion/america-trump-united-nations.html?referer=https://t.co/WT70mpuCTY?amp=1

Edited to add link to Rudyard Kipling poem “If”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---

[dalton99a]

1. Excellent piece.

"I Voted For Trump And All I Got Was This Very, Very Nice Flag"

[AmericanActivist]

2. Yes it is, it is brilliant. And lately that poem

has been in my mind even before his wonderful use of it here.

[dalton99a]

3. From comments - another Kipling quote

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

[AmericanActivist]

5. Thanks for sharing this other quote. I like it too nm

[Irish_Dem]

4. "The Great Leader" --A well deserved mocking of Trump and his worshipers.

Americans have a fundamental antipathy towards the president becoming a dictator, king, or object of worship.

For some reason the congress felt a need to overplay their hand in public.
But it didn't go over well with a big chunk of the American public.

[AmericanActivist]

6. Yes, a well deserved mocking nm