45* insists on getting money for his wall, and has taken 800,000 hostages, trying to force us into going along with it, saying he made a promise to his Red Hats and he needs to come through for them.
First, keeping a promise is a totally foreign concept to that clown, so we all know this is about something else.
I think the "something else" has everything to do with putting the US into a chaotic state so he and his minions can further loot the treasury, and consolidate their power.
Repubs in congress are standing by letting him do all this because he's furthering their intentions of moving us away from the model of democratic self-governance towards the Daddy State.
We're fixated on 45*'s antics, while the GOP believes they're using him as a cat's paw, planning to dump him once they're done with him.
There are of course, a jillion other threads tangled up in this ridiculous knotted snarl, but I think it always comes back down to a fight between people who just want a fair shake for as many as possible, versus people looking for an unfair advantage for themselves.
Which brings me back to the wall.
The wall is not the point - he didn't promise to build a wall. He promised to get Mexico to pay us to build the wall.
He promised the rubes they'd get something for nothing. They voted for free stuff.
And the kicker: the wall as metaphor means they've completely bought into the notion that the policies they support have no cost attached, and that their personal bigotry - their animus towards anyone "different" from them - will never exact payment from them.
The depth of depravity to which the rubes have fallen can be gauged in simple terms:
They sit passively, watching their family and neighbors - and sometimes they themselves - being ordered back on the job where they're forced to work for nothing.
Mandatory labor without compensation - seems like we've tried that before, and it didn't pan out so good.
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