We wash naked aggression with selective victims while instigating cycles of violence. Our rationalizations

strain sanity

From Nixon to Reagan our elected officials

prolonged conflicts

to gain political advantage over domestic rivals.

An old rock-bottom in our collective spiral downward, treason itself became a partisan political tactic long before the orange buffoon cheese-puffed his bouffant into the presidency.

Indonesia, Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, Panama-

I refuse to be in your story as the addict. you’re a rapist. I’m your conscious and you’ve created this entire format of a political book to run for president in order to come clean and earn peace of mind for all of the awful things you’ve done against women

That’s…a dangerous metaphor to play with

I’ll take it