CHANGE? TRULY?

     Although Trump lost the popular vote and got into office only because of an antiquated electoral system, it must be noted that most of his supporters were of the population which called for, shrieked for, change. They wanted their old jobs back. They wanted Obamacare gone but for what they did not say. They wanted a world back which would be nevermore. Their present world was harsh, lacking fulfillment of their dreams of adolescence and early adulthood. They wanted a change which would bring them more. More of what? How to do that? No answers, just CHANGE.
     Thus the votes of many for Trump who promised change and after all he made such a good reality star, how could TV be wrong. He was just what was needed. And let us look now at the change that has supposedly been wrought.
     It is a crock when we talk of a new government, one meant for the common man and woman for the entire government is now staffed with the rich, the obscenely rich, at that. Family members of the Trump family, of the Kushner family are just oh so busy running around the world and promoting themselves and their businesses via their so casually and not so causally mentioned ties to Trump. Ethics? What is that again? Is it really important if and when it stands in the way of business? Not really apparently.
     Our representatives in Washington are voting lockstep style. It is not important what is good for the people, only what is good for the Party. The country comes a distant second to the Republican party and now that they have the numbers what change are they bringing about? Why, a whole bunch of it. We are going to live in a changed environment with business unrestricted as to safe disposal of toxic elements, with our waterways okayed to be polluted, with coal mining, strip mining just oh so welcome once more and the air, oh do not worry, just get a tank of oxygen. Sacred land, dedicated to our national federally owned and protected monuments and national parks? Oh, why do they need so much land or do they really need to be so pristine? C'mon, be realistic.
     So change has come and now these poor people are being shafted or perhaps being knifed in the back is a better analogy. They have basically been told that their health does not matter, that their dreams of a bit of extra money, enough money even, to buy food and clothing, to pay for shelter, to send their kids to school - why, just forget it for that is part of the change, to shatter the dreams totally and insure that the possible troublemakers just die off quickly as they are denied coverage and care. Trumpcare is the change. Poor us.
    And now for the biggest change of all. We have become a subject of the Russian government. The new president knowingly, knowingly, appointed a national security adviser who was enmeshed deeply within the Russian sphere of influence, so much so that he discussed things with the Russian ambassador! Isn't that special? And all that moron Trump wants to know is who leaked, not why did he do it or think he could get away with it or why he wanted to get away with it. Some change there, right? An American President who shills for the Russians!!
     Want the piece de resistance? In court, defending that horrific and prejudiced and most un-American travel ban, they used one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever, one which has long ago been discredited, to back their position up. It was a decision that basically okayed segregation, a racist decision and shame on them!! Change? Right back to the past? Is that what people signed up for? Is that the change that they envisioned? I highly doubt that. So now we are stuck. Recall, resignation, impeachment or even imprisonment for any of his major misdeeds - those are the roads to explore and the pressure must be kept up for change, the right change to take place.
     Most of those same options are available right here in CV with reference to David Israel. I do not know about imprisonment, despite many of us feeling that he certainly has earned that privilege! But as for the other options, they are certainly there. He has knowingly made poor and costly decisions. He has willingly not listened to the voice of the people. He has purposefully winnowed down the members of the administration of UCO to those who will support him, follow him like little obedient doggies. He has pursued his own wishes over the needs of the people and does so in a blatant and dismissive manner. Because of him we are looking at a bleak future here what with broken down roads, poor TV options and expensive and useless internet connections and a ruination of many as he forces them to pay highly expensive retail prices to Comcast due to the fact that we are having Atlantic shoved down our throats. On top of all that - he is one nasty dude, misogynistic, maniacal in his megalomania, paranoid in the world of his own fantastical thinking, and way past his sell by date as far as UCO and the Village are concerned. Time for him to play with his computers on his own dime and time in his own apartment and perhaps even crawl out of his shell and actually talk to people and participate in the doings in the Village as a resident, a normal resident. Hey, he could even be a delegate! 
     Change? Yes. The time has come. But that change has to be a positive one, a change that is necessary and right for the people, for the Village, for the country. Time to send the selfish people back home to other jobs and bring in the new, the fresh, the honest, the nongreedy. It will not be easy, not here nor in Washington, but it must be done. As the Brady boy sang, "when its time to change...'