I do not know how many of you remember the song about what happens to mankind over the centuries and the question/statement it asks, "In the year 2525, if man is still alive...." How apropos this is to the times we live in.
Just look at the paper that comes out on a daily basis and one becomes bewildered. Is this a year round April Fool's Day joke? How could this all be serious and real? How could there be a president such as one sees in the paper who seems to divide his time and day into blocs wherein he tweets away, shouting at the world, at individuals and just random lies and during the rest of the time plays golf, incessantly, and always at a golf course that bears his name. What is even more ridiculous is that we, the taxpayers, are paying for this and for the publicity for his properties. Smart business, huh!
And yes, there actually is a time when he tries to look presidential, but then again it is silly beyond words. Why grin and tell people around you that they will have a job again, mining coal, when there is not one coal miner there as all the people from coal were the high up executives who have not suffered at all. Part of the swamp critters that Trump is so fond of.
In fact, forget about the importation of a few critters; Trump indeed has imported the entire swamp and this man who says he is anti establishment, this man and his crew are the biggest leeches off of political dark money and have all sold out to interests with deep pockets. In fact - they ARE the establishment and are sucking the life out of those poor deluded souls who voted for him for that lie and that lie alone.
Want another? Okay. Tell me this. Why or rather what does he do to that dead animal on his head. It appears to be gilded in orange and has a rear section that appears to stand out into the air as if it is going to take off. This on top of the masked raccoon look of the goggles he wears when he goes into the tanning bed. This is what presidents have the time for, to indulge in this nonsense? Perhaps if his wife lived with him in the White House he would have better supervision and we, the taxpayers, would have less of a burden for security costs and the constant flying of Trump to Mar a Lago. Is it not time that he buckle down and become a President?
But maybe it is best that the little boy occupy his time this way, for when he does pay some attention, the limited time span of attention he has, it becomes even scarier than ever. Now he boasts that he is going to take on North Korea all by his lonesome - dragging us along with him of course. You know, if he wants to go over there and put up his dukes, then by all means, but to threaten to start a nuclear war?! What the *****is the matter with him! Leave me and mine outta this!
And then again we have all the excitement as we learn in almost an hourly basis just how disgustingly wealthy beyond all understanding all the members of his administration are, the people they hang out with who give them money, oh, foreign countries, right wing news sites, countries that are acknowledged as our enemies and of course we just love to read of the interactions of government and business as these people take steps to insure that their business interests do not suffer and the leader of the pack - why Donald himself!
The rest of the world? It goes along in its not so merry way as for example when a teacher assigns a class to a project where they are to defend the extermination of the Jews and the NY State Commissioner of Education approves of it and sees nothing wrong and in fact she cites many "positives" from it. As one can imagine, I take umbrage at this assignment and wonder how she might feel if the assignment were changed a tad, just a tad, to defend killing off her segment of the population. Guess she would not defend it so vehemently at that point.
What the hell is happening to us? In Amsterdam two people find that the small postcard size metal commemoration plaques which state that a deported ad murdered Jew lived in that building before the war are a great distraction to them. It makes them uncomfortable and they want it gone. Well, good! It should make them uncomfortable!
It seems that the truth makes us all uncomfortable and we all look away from it. Today in the rural areas of our country the people who put Trump into office are looking at the truth and are standing there with their thumbs up a portion of their anatomy. Their funds for farming help, for their children, for their seniors - all will be gone like a puff of smoke as their "hero" cuts all the funding. And as for the women? Well, screw them for Planned Parenthood will have no funding for the local clinic so no advice re disease, no screenings, no women's health issues and treatments. After all, the men have decided it is not necessary and in any case, why should a woman have control over her own body!!
And all the while we have a possibly treasonous administration, including the possibility of the president himself allegedly being involved in this up to his neck. His own Party members are disgusted with it and with him and yet there they are, afraid of him, afraid for their seats but just wait until the hungry and unemployed people come to vote in 2018. They need to do their jobs and fight for the people and not for themselves A seat in Congress, be it the House or the Senate is not a sinecure to be taken for granted. It is not to be sold to the highest bidder. It is not to be treated cynically. Screw your courage to the sticking point is what they all need to do but, will they? The air reeks of doubt and cowardice.
The entire country needs that proverbial hero waiting off stage to rescue us, to catch us as we go into freefall. Who is that hero? Where is that hero? Right now it appears they are all inside Marvel and DC comics and not with us. Where are all the heroes of America? Where have all the believers in democracy ad country and humanity and fellow citizens gone. It was just recently the anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Do we need another tragedy which will have come about due to the fact that all the safety regulations have been destroyed, negated? Will we then have a hero who will save the new victims? You tell me, for I, at this moment, greatly doubt it, doubt our future as a democracy, doubt the honesty and courage of our representatives. Would that I am wrong. But I have great doubt on that too.
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