Brief comment on military parades and distractions

Today, we have a stupid, petty demonstration of Donald Trump's personal insecurities and dictator-envy.  Policy consequences or direct implications on peoples' lives?  Minimal at most.

Did you notice that he is also trying, once again, to nominate an idiot who advocates the gold standard for the Federal Reserve?  That matters.  That's harder to turn into a national news story precisely because it is so much the opposite of a spectacle, but it is also worth pointing out just how much of daily politics have become one lunatic train-wreck after another, to the point that keeping track of the craziness is simply impossible.

The fact that insanity is just part of daily existence, and normalized now, is exactly why I think this thing is past the point of no return.

Stick a fork in us, we're done.  A military dictator-style demonstration is distracting everyone from the fact that the President keeps trying to nominate gold standard-advocating nitwits for the Fed.

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