Aesop had a tale that is quite apropos right now: The Frogs Desiring a King (a.k.a “King Log and King Stork”) is about a group clamoring for a strong handed leader, someone to declare moral rules and enforce them on the people. The Republicans (the party currently wanting to have government enforce ones personal morality, especially in the bedroom) chose Trump (as amoral an individual who ever took the proverbial throne) and somehow got him into power. Splash.

The Democrats, aghast at the dangerous ignorance and exemplary incompetence of this purported moral leader, strive to have him impeached; to oust this King Log. So who would be our King Stork?

Pence, a man who is neither uneducated nor incompetent. One who is actually a willing enforcer of a particular moral code, a one size fits all set of rules that most Americans don’t actually live by, but some few vocal ones want to enforce it on everyone. This, despite the constitutional prohibition about the government enforcing the moral codes of a particular religion, is why he had the second seat next to the regularly bankrupt (both morally and financially) head of state.

So, from frying pan into fire?

But our particular King Log is already on fire, shedding sparks and termites at the forest around him. He is incompetent to actually accomplish any of the party goals (aside from rolling back all the social progress and economic gains worked by the previous administration). But his inconsistency, his ignorance, and his volatile instability are dangerous not just for us citizens, but for the stability of world peace.

So we can wait until this King Log finishes burning down, setting our pond boiling and the surrounding forest turned to ash.

Or somehow get him out faster, and then have someone who knows how to pull the strings then bind the people with them, but maybe head off an excuse for the Military Industrial Complex to justify their absurdly bloated budget.

Name your poison.