An image to define two different men and political philosophies

 

       The image above should be representative of the cost of a person and political party that degrades the value of having a functional government to protect its citizens.  On Trump's last full day in office, the 400,000th person died from the virus.  He was not the first person in his party to follow this political path and he will not be the last.  How many American citizens had to die because of Trump and his Republican allies is hard to determine but a comparison with one other country that took a different approach to handle a pandemic is worth looking at.   Taiwan took an aggressive approach to the virus and has had less than 200 of its citizens dying from the virus.  I know that comparing a country like the United States with over 330 million citizens to an island country with a population of 5 million isn't exactly comparable.  Even factoring in the differences between the two countries the reality is that if the United States would have been as successful as Taiwan in handling the virus we would have had around 8,000 deaths rather than 400,000. Attribute many of those additional deaths to the efforts over the past 40 years to degrade any value in establishing a competent necessary government to handle a crisis like the pandemic.

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The darkness of a period of "American carnage" of one incompetent administration is ending as the dawn of a new administration begins.  Many of us have endured 4 years waiting for this day.  Trump is finally slinking out of town.