We have only one choice left

Americans finally awoke in a hall of mirrors to find themselves left out in a rigged economy. Half of them chose to Occupy Wall Street and the other half flamed into the Tea Party. In 2016 the consummate insiders Trump-Clinton posture as outsiders riding in to save the day.

ISIS having lost its caliphate state adopted the shock and awe policy of Bush-Cheney. They know that without a holy war with the West they will not endure long. Putin found his only useful distraction from his problems was to push westwards into Europe. Trump on a non-sarcastic day will shortly call to dissolve NATO and set up internment camps for Muslims. The new Axis of Evil, Trump-Putin-ISIS, sweeps in to harvest the fear and hatred.

After the orange-haired dark knight ascends to the White House, Trump will reach for the book of Hitler’s speeches his ex-wife claims he keeps at his bedside. The next day he announces he will expand his mass incarceration to include Mexicans and finally his critics. As his billionaire friends on Wall Street cash in, we enter an economic depression. Trump retires to his tower to watch the fireworks. His ill-equipped vice prez sends in the army to attack Planned Parenthood and gay bars.

We have only one choice. We have to be smart enough to tell the difference between the small evil of Hillary and the grand evil of Trump. If you sit out this election prepare to sit longer and later in your bomb shelter.

This story was originally published August 18, 2016 at 8:13 AM with the headline "We have only one choice left."