The Problem With Draining "The Swamp"

President Trump campaigned on draining the D.C. swamp. And while he is working on it, and has made some small headway, he is finding it incredibly difficult. And it's no wonder, when you consider the consequences of draining any swamp.

When you begin draining a swamp you aggravate all kinds of swamp creatures - the alligators that feed from it (the media), the swamp rats that the alligators feed on (politicians) and all those pesky, disease carrying mosquitoes that breed there (liberal celebrities and Twitter trolls). And you cannot expect draining the swamp to be a piece of cake when you rile so many critters.

Trump has definitely riled the media. They require sensationalism and controversy in order to compete for readers and viewers. Draining the swamp deflates the very things the media feeds on - they would have to revert back to actually doing their jobs and do some real investigative reporting instead of spreading the propaganda found on the internet (yet another swamp).

The swamp rats are ticked off because the draining of the swamp takes away their "safe space" - without the muddy, murky water they become more visible and can be seen for what they actually do or do not do. Since politicians win office by how voters see what they do, and not just what the politician says or promises, the swamp rats do not like that kind of transparency.

As for those pesky insects that are constantly trying to draw blood from anyone who dares enter their sanctuary, they breed and proliferate in those murky waters. If the swamp is drained, they have nowhere to turn.

And that is precisely the reasons why the swamp must be drained!

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