I am one who values loyalty, being true to one's friends, one's beliefs, one's family, to the principles which guide one's life. Yet there are times that one must think thru the loyalty and ask whether it behooves one to remain loyal in lieu of all that has gone on or is it time to back away, to shift into another stage and support something else.
Once I respected Rudy Giuliani for his strength at the time of 9/11. He was firm and dedicated but the first trickle of uh uh came when he tried to extend his tenure into a third term, taking advantage of a bad situation for personal reasons. Bad taste. And in his backing of Trump, in his garbage that he spewed yesterday about Lewinsky and Clinton - gimme a break. First of all, let the poor kid alone already. She has rebuilt her life from when she was taken advantage of and Hillary did not unzip Bill's pants. That was his sickness so let him deal with it. Are we to go into Trump's personal life and discuss his cheating on his wives? This has to do with character, of which he has little on the positive side, but at least it was his doing. Bill is not Hillary. Period. Trump already hinted at using this when in the debate - crass and low class so Rudy, think again about loyalty and misplaced loyalty.
That goes for the moral cowards who have sucked up to Trump in order to get access to his administration - G-d forbid. That includes Cruz, whom I never trusted in the first place, Paul Ryan - ditto, Christie - ugh, and all those wimps who refuse to stand firm and choose with principles and not selfishness.
When does this misplaced loyalty end? The people who cheered on Hitler were loyal and only when losing did they scurry like the rats they were. It took a long time for the military attempted coup to finally take place, alas it failed, but there was no organized resistance in Germany other than the defeated and small White Rose. Loyalty to a fault?
We are to be loyal to the country - not to a Party. That needs to be earned. That needs to be deserved. So why are people being disloyal and disrespectful to the country disrespecting its anthem and what it stands for even as they support garbage elsewhere.
Blind loyalty does not work well in the long run at all. What we get is seen right here in the Village where blind loyalty, much out of fear and desire to suck the teat of "power", worked to allow David Israel to get a fourth term, unprecedented in Village history, bad news for the Village as he attempted and continues to attempt to ruin us with his misguided and dangerous plans, both from the past and the present and even into the future. Misguided loyalty. Needs to go.
Shimon Peres, now deceased, an elder statesman of Israel and indeed the world, said that the true leader is not a ruler of the people but rather a public servant to the people. I cannot see Trump as a public servant to the people as he has already and many times cheated the people - no or little tax, taking advantage of the crisis of others, being smug about it as well, and nor do I see David Israel as a public servant of the residents of the Village. Nor do many others but the outmoded and outdated and almost useless and broken system of ours allows him to remain. One resident owner one vote is what is needed yet his committees and stooges keep it hidden somewhere, refuse to discuss it and just try to get an article about it into the Rag. Ha!! For that attempt I have a bridge or a tunnel I could sell you!
Trump continues his nasty campaign with his return to the "crooked Hillary" again. He also complains of his broken mic - did anyone see a sign of that? This is the behavior of a loser, of an infantile tantrum, a person who refuses to release the truth about himself - tax returns, health records - where are they? Personally, I would love to have him do a brain scan so we can all see what is missing.
The Arizona Republic, a paper that has supported Republican candidates for president since 1890, has realized that loyalty to bad news will not hold and have come out for Clinton......
"......reflects a deep philosophical appreciation for conservative ideals and Republican principles," the paper's editorial board wrote.
"This year is different. The 2016 Republican candidate is not conservative and he is not qualified. That's why, for the first time in our history, The Arizona Republic will support a Democrat for president," it continued.
Donald Trump, the editorial board wrote, does not understand the challenges the country faces, nor does he have the temperament to deal with them."
"see Trump for what he is - and what he is not."
They go on to praise Clinton while not whitewashing her into an angel, but weighing her skills, her knowledge, her determination, her strength to deal with others. This is what loyalty is - to the people, to the country, to the future of the world.
Leaders of the world, stock markets of the world were edgy prior to the debate as the thought of Trump as a President shook the foundations of the world. Change? Fine. But change for the better, not a change for the worse, a return to racial divide, to a police state, to a fear of saying anything - all in the name of law and order. G-d forbid.
So he talks of a wall, as he talks of ending Obamacare - a program which has helped members of my own family finally find a good policy for health coverage, as he speaks of a return to a world where there are no regulations - so goodbye to worker safety, to worker rights, to helping to fix the environment and welcome to more disasters and perhaps maybe Trump should watch that new show on Syfy Aftermath which talks of survival in a world ruined by natural disasters.
Loyalty is good. It is a positive trait. But loyalty, blind loyalty, is something to be avoided. Loyalty needs to be earned and needs to be continually earned by deeds and by adherence to what is right and moral. The wicked leading the blind? Needs to end. Here and now. Both in the outside world and in our own little world.
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