I have tried following the trail to the end of the path. I have gone further and further down the road each time the issue crops up but have been afraid to state the finality of the end. And yet, for how much longer can I, especially after having discussions with so many others of late who also use the words, "I'm frightened. Not so much for me as for my kids and grandchildren. What kind of world will they have to live in?"
So all holds barred. The exact feelings and statements that will explain these fears and concerns. It may sound extreme, but think it through carefully and see if you can refute it and if you have solid statements to make other than , "Oh, give the man a chance, or maybe it will get better, or someone will stand up to him, or Congress won't allow it" well, then contact me but all these statements above are useless, suppositions based on frail hopes which in turn have no solid basis other than wishful thinking. Well, we all know the statement of "if wishes were horses....." In fact, what we have now is what foolish or hate filled people or deluded souls have caused - a president elect for whom people are afraid to confess they voted for, for the rest of us who did not - the majority of the voters in America, by the way, why we politely warn each other not to offend those poor Trumpers. Well, why not? They have gotten us into this mess and how to get out? Why did they not consider our feelings that they trampled upon during the election campaign, the rotten people that attached themselves to the campaign and the fear that engendered, the vision of the future that far outweighed any of the apocalyptic movies and their portrayal of a future world and a future USA that is frightening to the extreme - and more and more realistic every day what with the statements and the appointments and the lies and the Putin and Russian fangs and arms in our very lives, the very fabric of the soul of America.
Sound over the top? Maybe, but read on and remember, I am open to honest and sensible and possible refutations. Yesterday someone asked in an op-ed piece why the Democrats do not fight like the Republicans, basically dirty or in your face and I wonder why? Why have the Democrats not stood up and said we will have no part of this? Why instead has Schumer stated that oh they will cooperate where they can? Why? What for? Did the Republicans cooperate with the Democrats the past eight years? NO, they did not and so we had gridlock and threatened governmental shutdowns. If we do not do this, stand up for ourselves, for Pete's sake, then here is the concluding sentence of the piece. "What this portends for the next four years is truly terrifying" And I add, what it portends for the future beyond that is even more terrifying.
And what do we know so far? Well, we have a new royal family, a princess who is supplanting the stepmother and taking over her office and functions perhaps? We have two princelings who will run the king's business concerns and the king will make sure that no decisions that are harmful to the profit lines of the businesses are enacted. We have entities who are already sucking up to this royal family by staying in their hotels, by shutting their mouths out of fear - and they confess to that fear!
We have a king to be who openly states that laws do not apply to him and in any case the morality of situations leave him cold. He is perhaps the most amoral and/or immoral being I have ever encountered. He is lacking in intelligence but makes up for that with his royal family and continues to openly display his sophomoric brains and personality and indulges in semi literate tweets in the middle of the night. He is the least dignified president elect or king to be I have ever come across and there is simply no shame in what he does or states for if there is negative feedback to a degree, he just denies he said it, lies, or walks it back - bigly so!!
And what about the royal court, waiting to be approved by Congress, waiting for what? For the members to grow several pair in order to defy his destructive choices? Will they grow these pairs or will they wimp out and woe upon us if that happens. Look what we will have.
Energy secretary - wanted to abolish it
Education secretary - a major threat to public education, rabid charter school adherent.
Attorney General - opposes the Voting Rights Act and is a known bigot.
Health and Human Service secretary - wants to practically eliminate Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid and other such social programs. To hell with people, right?
Treasury secretary - was up to his neck in the financial crisis we all barely survived and then of course profited from it all. Good business our king to be would say.
E.P.A. head - denies climate change and has sued this department numerous times.
Secretary of State - great for Exxon, and great for Russia and Putin - not so hot for us.
Deputy secretary - OMG - watch the drool from that rabid mouth.
Miscellaneous appointments - four generals, more businessmen and Fat Cats, the critters of the swamp, Goldman Sachs people up the wazoo and never mind what they caused and profited from in 2008 and ensuing years.
And do not forget the wall to be built, the immigrants to be summarily tossed out, the Moslem registry, the Big Brother inquiries into Energy Department employees and their actions and thoughts about climate change, and do not forget the deportation police and what is the next step - thought police? He has already damned the media for being mean to him, such a grown up he is!! And what about women? Will we be forced into the back of humanity again? Will we be chattel again? Have we totally lost all hope of retaining rights over our own body, forced to carry babies we do not want and that might even have been foisted upon us by rapists, by incest violators, by piggish men who think they can do what they want, say what they want for after all, that is what men do we are told!! And please remember that Assad has said that Trump is a natural ally for him!!! I am vomiting.
Thomas Friedman writes of the crazy recklessness of Trump's plans and policies, particularly his climate related ones and writes of what could be. He questions with great dread what the Russian interference actually means and I question too. Can we really rely on this election after all the hacking and the interference or are we here on this earth to satisfy the whims of Putin, a very bad man to say the least. And if we null and void this election as I am coming to believe we should more and more - then what? Civil War? Chaos? Are we strong enough to handle this? But on the other side, are we strong enough to keep our souls and our country and its values with four years of the Trump monarchy and will it be only four years or are we saying good bye to the democratic country once known as the United State of America?
And a question. I have often joked that they will be coming for me, what with what I write and state. Is that really a joke? I dunno know. Perhaps I should ask Putin. Perhaps I should run to Israel but then again, what is its fate what with the anti Semitic fiends coming out of the woodwork and welcomed and the Arabists, the fossil fuel people appointed to the royal court? And hey, do not forget the Palestinian terrorists invited into a third grade classroom in Ithaca to spout hatred against Jews and Israelis. Check it out and it took a year! to get the video of it - never mind the other two that remain secreted! Simply put - I have never been so frightened in my life. How about you?
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