The Perfect Storm

In his account or the sinking of an ocean-going fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, Sebastian Junger describes the combination of meteorological factors that came together to create wind and sea conditions in which it was impossible for such a craft to survive. It was a case of a highly unlikely concatenation of events that, given enough time, was certain to happen. The two-hundred and forty-eight years since the Declaration of Independence has turned out to be enough time for a weird sequence of events to revert our country to control by a tyrant and his confederates.

“The weight of this sad time we must obey.”
Edgar, at the end of King Lear.