Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Yesterday the 34 count Felon and Adjudicated Sexual Offender was reinstalled as the head of our government much to the shaggin and disappointment of many. In his address he stated that we are starting the Golden Era, “Unlike anything ever seen…” After that he signed executive orders receding the cap of pharmaceutical drugs for seniors and Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices and the $35.00 insulin cap, put in process to once again pull the United States out of the Paris Climate agreement and pardoned all the J6 individuals who assaulted police offices while trying to overturn an election. The law-and-order party just released criminals, some of whom confessed, that injured policed officers.

But let’s talk about the golden era that he wants to usher in with a little view of history…

The Gilded Age that started in the 1870s, was a period of economic growth as the United States jumped to the lead in industrialization ahead of Britain. The nation was rapidly expanding its economy into new areas, especially heavy industry like factories, railroads, and coal mining. Three societal problems facing America during the Gilded Age were political corruption, racial tensions, and economic inequality. Political corruption: The Gilded Age was marked by widespread political corruption, with politicians catering to business interests and participating in graft and bribery.

Well at least it starting out like last time… what could go wrong?

While there were some positives… Significant economic growth, technological advancements, and the rise of new industries. Those positives made men like Andrew Carnage, J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller wealthy beyond belief but there was a cost. Those costs included exploitation of workers, dangerous working conditions, low wages, widespread poverty, political corruption, and the growing gap between the rich and poor. The ‘Gilded Age’ is also known as the age of the robber barons and that is the era Donald wants to bring back. A time when the rich get filthy rich and everyone else suffers… we already have Billionaires, which is obscene, but they want to be Trillionaires. This current round of aristocrats I don’t foresee making a sudden move to philanthropy like Rockefeller and Carnage did in the early 20^th century. To date there isn’t a Hospital, Library, Museum, or any public project named after, Musk, Zuckerburg, Bezos, or Trump. Which hard to believe as much as Trump likes to put his name on things, I am sure there will be plenty of monuments to dear leader but they will have zero benefit other than ego aggrandizement.