Thomas Cangelosi

Under the increasing influence of social media, artificial intelligence, and unfiltered political propaganda, America seems to be losing its identity.

As in Aesop’s fable, the world’s tolerance for the President’s lies appears to be running out.

Once we lost our collective reason to a demagogue peddling lies, we also lost our republic. 

Trump’s whitewashing of The Smithsonian exhibit is another part of the president’s racist campaign to repress the voice of minorities and erase their history.

Trump’s Bizarro-like idea of meritocracy amounts to a patronage system of blatant incompetency.

This year’s Independence Day celebration ironically included just the opposite.

In reality, Trump’s “art” of making deals amounts to bullying, intimidating, suing, extorting, bribing and lying to get what he wants,

This president has shown neither honor nor decency; neither integrity nor morality.

President Trump’s vainglory double dealing to enrich America demands Ukraine forfeit its very soul.

President-elect Trump’s nomination of corporate titans and family members to lead the government exposes his naked intention to further entrench corporatocracy.

The double standard of gender beauty has historically and systemically trickled down from seats of male power to the man in the street.

Since the Supreme Court ruled that the state can legally intrude into a woman’s most intimate and private parts to control her body, her privacy, and her free will, then certainly the state can also legally make lesser intrusions to achieve the same end.

America calls itself “exceptional” among nations, and a shining beacon of freedom and democracy. But when America’s reality belies its mythic conceptions, many fearful citizens regress into heroic narratives like a frightened child into a fairy tale.