Secrets and Lies

Secrets will naturally lead too lies. Lies create a chasm between those who know the truth and those who are merely guessing.

And of course incompetence is a third issue. When half of a presidential administration is staffed by idiot children of the rich and powerful, secrets and lies become a necessary evil to keep the public from getting freaked out.

Its hard to compare our current reality to a totalitarian state because nobody (to my knowledge) is being shot in the back or "disappearing" in this country. Of course it may very well be that in other countries this is happening. At the same time, the very brazenness of the secrets and lies of this White House has created something that is not quite democracy. (a secretocracy? a totalitarian democracy?)

Frankly, impeachment (however remote a possibility) is the only thing that will lance this boil.