Draining the swamp using a soda straw...

To be clear:

We have a President who cannot tell the truth, or is easily confused, such as “Look what’s happening in Sweden” during a rally in Florida 2/18—I do not want to list all the lies because that would be too long a list…

We have a Vice President who suggested that HIV prevention funding be drained in order to fund state-sponsored ‘gay cure’ therapy, and in 2015 signed Indiana’s Religious Freedom Act into law, allowing business owners to deny service to any person if they felt that serving them would violate their religious beliefs.

We have a Secretary of State who started working for ExxonMobil in 1975 as an engineer and served as the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company from 2006 to 2016. He not only has close business ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which have generated controversy particularly in light of the revelations about Putin's business dealings in the Panama Papers, but has previously been the director of the joint US-Russian oil company Exxon Neftegas.

We have an Attorney General who was denied a Federal judgeship on the grounds he was too racist.

We have a Secretary of the Treasury a rich banker with no experience or known views on policy, whose appointment seems to fly in the face of draining the swamp—he worked for Goldman-Sachs and went into business for himself in hedge funds, where he garnered serious criticisms for aggressively foreclosing on properties due to slight clerical errors.

We have a Secretary of Health & Human Services who, a House member since 2005, had shown bad judgment by actively trading shares of medical and pharmaceutical companies while shaping health policy in Congress. An outspoken critic of the ACA, he has also vowed to “reform” Medicare and Medicaid.

We have a Secretary of Transportation who is a sheer testament to nepotism, related to Mitch McConnell, with experience as Labor Secretary in G. W. Bush’s administration—we all remember how well the unions liked her, and how much the average working American benefited from her tenure.

We have a Secretary of Energy who has previously vowed to dismantle the Energy Department, who “regrets” having said that, and is known for actively campaigning against big government but during is governorship of Texas from 2000-2010 doubled the budget for government, and the state has suffered from budget woes ever since he took office.

We have an Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, a climate change denier, who said that scientists “continue to disagree” about the science of climate change and that those who deny the science of climate change are having their right to “dissent” violated, and called a belief in climate change a religious belief.

The list continues but one cannot help but notice a disturbing trend: extremely rich, insiders of the President have taken hold of cabinet positions, to the detriment of those who believe that the slow gains in environmental protections, healthcare reforms, and upholding the basic rights of those who are not Christian, heterosexual Caucasians are being destroyed. I believe that the President’s supporters are thrilled with many of the changes, but many also have not seen what the erosion of human rights, environmental protections, and healthcare options looks like. They will if this trend continues, and many of his detractors do not wish to see any further erosion of that which has been slowly gained over the years.