Destruction of a Symbol

 

The current destruction of the White House is a symbol of the destruction of America. Sure, there were changes made over the years, a bowling alley, a swimming pool built and filled in, but the structure remained. 

The country doesn't need a ballroom. It needs a government that works for the people.   

Not only is the White House being destroyed as it was, but lives are being destroyed or at least damaged.  No one took a wrecking ball to the East Wing before. Times change but no one ever took a pair of scissors to the Constitution until now either. Both the symbol and what is represented by them are being knocked down.

There are people who built their lives around government service, not just in the armed forces but in administrative posts, scientific work, national parks and more down to a clerk. They had no reason to think that everything they worked for, planned for would end at the whim of a few. They had no reason to think their work would be at best stopped or worse destroyed.

People who didn't work for the government expected certain things from it and also built their lives around it. The U.S. army wouldn't attack them, for example. That is no longer true.

In a few short months, Donald Trump and his buddies like Elon Musk, Stephan Miller and/or Russell Vought, the driving force behind the 2025 Report would come roaring through with no thought to the damage they were causing. People, the planet, the world economies, have been swept aside. None of it matters to them. 

The first time I saw the White House, I was surprised at how small it was in comparison to what it represented. I shivered as I felt its history, all the earth shattering events and ideas that happened in that building. I knew good men and bad men had walked those halls. It was more than a piece of real estate. It was a symbol of the good the U.S. represented, of hope that governments could serve their people.

And now a small cadre of evil men are ripping it all a part at a cost to not just the American citizens, but the planet. 

Note: www.democracynow.org/2025/10/21/russell_vought_propublica_shadow_president