Keith McNenly
Special to Niagara Now/The Lake Report

A great darkness has fallen over the United States. It is a darkness that will spread over our entire North American continent. If allowed, it will continue to spread and envelop the world, bringing mankind once again into a dark era.

As a country, the U.S. is quickly devolving into a new form, morphing into a mob family organization supported by self-interested oligarchs who are sharing in the booty.

A corrupt Republican majority Supreme Court has given the president the power and immunity of a king.

The cowardly Republican Congress abets the devolution, completely abandoning its legislative role.

A violent, self-lobotomized MAGA supporting cult cheers every insanity that comes off the Resolute Desk of the president, in increasingly corrupt and lawless executive orders.

Every institution of American government is being eviscerated like cattle stampeded into a slaughterhouse, with the Justice Department becoming the president’s personal tool of retribution.

Presidential bully power is being wielded against the country’s most prominent lawyers and law firms who are lining up to beg for his mercy. They agree to pledge hundreds of millions of free lawyering to be used at the president’s direction against the interests of the American people.

As of this moment, a billion dollars worth of free lawyering has been secured. All of this money will be used in favour of the president personally and against the interests of Americans.

Law enforcement is being wantonly deployed to sweep up individuals off the streets and deport them to a concentration camp in Central America. He has asked for more concentration camps to be erected in Central  America for his deportations, with a promise to expand the deportations to include U.S. citizens.

Leaders of free nations are told to go to the White House to kiss the presidents ass, (his words), to avoid his crippling tariff war. The world is required to open itself up to personal real estate development projects by the president’s family.

Americans fell for the age-old con of populist leaders. Failure to understand the consequences of electing cowards to Congress and fascists to the presidency has real consequences, and once fascism gains its foothold, it may not be reversed.

The ending of the United States has been a long time coming. The keystone in the takedown of the country was the corruption of the Supreme Court. Once that was accomplished, everything else fell smoothly into place.

When electoral corruption is legalized, as happened with the United States election financing laws, political parties become corrupt and politicians are up for outright purchase by the rich and powerful.

Now it’s Canada’s turn at the ballot. On April 28, Canadians can choose to put aside our regional bickering, reject populist leadership, and elect a prime minister capable of leading Canada through these dark times. We must have a strong national leader who has never been in the thrall of the Trump cult and whose policies do not align with MAGA ideology.

This is a race between the Conservatives and the Liberals, between Poilievre and Carney. The NDP and the Greens aren’t in the running for prime minister, so a vote for either of those parties in this one critical election is a thrown-away vote.

Niagara-on-the-Lake resident Keith McNenly was the chief administrator of the Town of Mono for 41 years.