38 days to go until that noon hour when Donald Trump raises his hand and swears the oath,

the same 35 words that George Washington swore and Teddy Roosevelt swore, that every

president of the United States has promised to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution

of the United States.

This is the warning.

Donald Trump is the only president in American history who openly transgressed against

that oath, desecrated it.

When he ordered a mob to storm the Capitol on the day, the election was to be

officially certified that he lost. During his Time magazine, Man of the Year interview, Donald Trump

has promised to stay within the boundaries of the law. We should hope. We should pray. Let's see.

But one of the things that's broken about

American politics and thus America's media is this dogma that politics on the river of life

sits at the headwaters, that it is not something that lies below the culture, for example.

And that's exactly where it lies.

And some of the most out-of-touch people in the country are the people who are responsible

for communicating to the whole of the country an image, a reflection, the news of what

is happening in that country, the corporate

leaders who make tens of millions of dollars a year, who speak in platitudes, and live a life

far, far removed from ordinary Americans. This morning, I'm in Lake Havasu, Arizona, the west coast of Arizona, as they like to say.

I've driven across much of the country, taking the route down old Route 66, across an international

boundary in Michigan, came through St. Louis, on through to Amarillo, Texas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and now Lake

Cavasoo, Arizona. These places are seldom talked about on the national news. When is the last

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