Birthday Eve Blues?

I try to keep the outside world out of this blog. I try to give you a break from all that other crap and give you something to distract you. But sometimes I have to share stuff with you here or it rattles around in my head and debilitates me, and I am genuinely terrified by what's happening in America right now.
I may be misreading things and letting my pessimism overwhelm me, but it looks to me like the country is being taken over by the very sort of people that government is supposed to protect you from.
I'm sure it's happened before. The worlds of business and politics have always been tied more closely in the States than here, but I worry that this might set a precedent for the world and that we'll be facing something very similar in Britain very soon.
I'm sure it's happened before and I'm sure we'll all survive. But it might be a tough road ahead, and things might happen that we all have to face the aftermath of.
And what a joyous thing it is that all this gets to be instigated with Trump being inaugurated on my birthday...

RC 19-1-25