Up North Progressive

As Trump’s inauguration begins and the majority of Americans still come to grips with the knowledge that a foreign power committed an act of war with our elections and the Republican Party is perfectly fine with that, we can only witness the spectacle with dread and revulsion. An illegitimate degenerate savage is about to sit in the White House for the next four years, maybe, and pretend he’s President of the United States.

If there is one thing that has become true about this new era of American history, it’s the statement, “nothing matters.” Facts are useless while complete fabrication becomes gospel. If Trump tweets it, it’s good enough for the GOP. How far into the void of chaos have we fallen? Even respected new sources like the Detroit Free Press publish fake news on their front pages now. Trump supporters feel the truth no longer demand evidence to support their claims.

And since Washington D.C. accepts chaos as the new normal, The Up North Progressive will do their part to remind everyone that this is not normal, no matter what the Republicans want us to believe. Chaos is disorder, but that disorder is the potential to create, not destroy. The Republican Party intends to use the Trump usurpation to destroy the United States – a secular democratic republic as designed by the founders of this nation – and replace it with a theocratic regime favoring the corporate elite.

‘Nothing matters’ is much like the Persian assassin Hassan-i Sabbah’s famous quote, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” That is certainly the case with Trump. He can hire prostitutes to pee on a bed, and say it never happened despite American intelligence agencies having evidence that it did happen, and the faithful accept the word of a narcissistic habitual liar.

That’s why at 11:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, as Trump takes the oath of office, the Up North Progressive will light the candle pictured above. The sigils on it are designed to return all of Trump’s negativity back to him where it belongs.

And it won’t matter at all, Right?

We’ll just have to wait and see.