Do You Believe That Trump’s a Threat to Democracy? I Don’t.

Yesterday I came home to find a notice in the mailbox that the Post Office had not been able to deliver a letter because it needed a signature. So, today I went over to the P.O., signed for the letter, and opened it up.

It wasn’t a summons, and it wasn’t a bill. It was a notice from the utility company informing me that they were going to be doing some light construction on property which abutted on my property and therefore they needed to inform all the ‘abutters’ that they were going to do this work.

This letter, which I needed like I needed a hole in my head, was simply another example of how incredibly organized we are as a country. To state it simply: we are a country of laws. And not only are we a country of laws, but we are incredibly law-abiding.

The United States is the only country in the entire world where you can drive from one end of the country to the other and drink tap water in the toilet at every stop. We are also the only country in which there isn’t a single piece of food sold in a public supermarket which doesn’t carry a label which says where the food comes from and the calories, vitamins, and minerals which the food contains.

We are also the only country in which every, single drug sold as medicine in every, single pharmacy must be approved by a…