The title is actually incorrect. It is not music we will be facing or hearing but rather a dissonance that has adversely affected us and indeed the world at large.
“His complete incompetence, his complete failure, and his complete inability to see his incompetence and his failure as anything except personal brilliance would get him fired everywhere from the boardroom at Microsoft to the deep fryer at McDonald’s.”
This is written about Trump, a leader who is most emphatically not! Keith Olbermann exposes this naked emperor and states clearly what I have been saying all along - “Donald Trump is not of sound mind,”. For sure we need to correct this situation, but it is not easy to face what we have allowed to be done. It is not easy to impeach or remove a sitting president but this must be done, it is imperative that it be so.
When a leader once more assumes the role of a most inappropriate schoolyard bully at a time when a leader of calm mien is needed - that is not good. When this happens time and time again, it is even worse and there comes a time when one must say goodbye and not with the sweet tones of Bocelli, but with the anguished and angry tones of the American people. Even his friends are sadly admitting that he is being himself and this self is most emphatically not good for us nor the world.
When State Department staffers, when Acting Ambassadors around the world resign - that is not good. When the man turns on his own aides, the ones he chose himself, that is not good, and when his main adviser is a populist and a nativist - fancy words for a bigot, one who in a previous century might be found in a white sheet, then we are on a dangerous edge of what? A calamity? It is already here!
This sick man, this demented man, sitting in the Oval Office, finds it more important to punish the leaker rather than repair what was leaked. The leaker is a whistle blower and it is sad that these reports have to be leaked rather than be addressed and of course, the first 'leaker" they choose to charge is a young woman of 25 - not those of the White House or the Congress, but a kid, who leaked a report of Russian interference in the election. Wow!! As if we did not already have knowledge and proof of that!
So what do we have now? We have a man who profited over the past few months from Saudi delegations staying at his hotel trying to fight off a 9/11 bill. Nice!! Good business, right? $270,000 of good business! Ethics, anyone?
We have admirals and generals who are warning us that we are falling behind, lagging behind in energy replacement, lagging in research that is needed to face the future. Coal anyone?
We are a country where a baseball minor league team is allowed to advertise with a Caucasian Heritage Night or now an "Hourglass Appreciation Night" and you guess what that refers to!
We have lost all manners, all decency, have retrogressed to a more vicious and backwards time and look who is at the head of it all - a self confessed sexual predator, one who thinks that TV is reality, that he can be a man baby even as the country and the world deteriorates in front of his eyes. Time to take action. Time to impeach or remove him from office via constitutional means.
It is a sad and dangerous time for us now when we desperately need a leader, a sane and rational and capable leader and all we have is a big baby who throws tantrums, who thinks he can command all and frighten all, a man who would tear us, the United States of America, tear us down and away from the world, yield our position of leadership, abdicate our position as leader of a world trying to be moral, trying to do the right thing.
These are desperate times, as has been said before, but the words fit the times and the needs. We must face the music, the music that we have allowed to be corrupted, the music that strikes the ears with dissonant tones. This is not an Aaron Copland production of atonal music but rather the noisy and disturbing music of a broken mind.
There is nothing more to say at this point, is there? The need is clear.
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