3 AM IN THE MORNING

     Three AM could be a great time to be returning from a great night, a wedding, a celebration of sort, but it is also the time when dictators know is great for arresting people, for surprising them, finding them at their weakest. It is also a time when one finally gives up on the tossing and turning and any more sleep for the night.
      So 3 AM has become a euphemism for bad times. "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning. (" F. Scott Fitzgerald)
 We have reached our 3 AM in the morning and it is not a good thing. There is no celebration here, not for opponents of David Israel nor opponents of Donald Trump.
     Three o'clock in the morning in CV means that we have put ourselves on the very sharp point of a knife with no relief in sight. We are going to owe millions upon millions to Atlantic, a company with a proven bad track record. We have allowed ourselves to be lulled by their claims and promises with no proof of its eventual truth, and indeed can find only bad about it. Even Consumer Reports dislikes it intensely - and no, David, they are not after you nor do they know me except as a subscriber! Sorry, but Atlantic is just a bad deal for us - and it all rests upon your shoulders.
     It is 3 AM when we allow rules to be set in motion that will remove any and all ability of the residents and delegates to show dislike or opposition to the deeds and plans of UCO as defined by David Israel. It will negate any voice crying in the wilderness and in any case, it has already left us there as the Millennium Agreement needs to be prepared for but naught has been done because David is too damn busy with his other plans. And so we in the Village rot and our future rots with it.
     But why expect any different when we allow him to get his way and when we have the awful 'role model' of Donald Trump - senior and junior! -right in front of our eyes. 24/7 we are bludgeoned with more information that turns our stomach. 24/7 we see a man who still cannot control his baser instincts and goes sexual mode again telling both Macron's wife and Macron that she is in good physical shape. Yecch to the nth degree. This is not something one says to the wife of another leader of the world nor indeed to anyone. It is the remark of a three year old who has no brakes but this man is 71.But then again, his idea of age and maturity and responsibility is warped as can be seen by his attempt to defend junior as a good kid. A good kid???? He is 39 years old. A kid no more. Indeed!
     We have the constant drip drip all day long as more information comes out concerning the meeting with the Russians. As previously stated, the truth comes out - always - and when a lie is told one only enmeshes oneself in a morass of more lies and embarrassments. Way back in June they already knew that there would be trouble about this and paid $50,000 to the defense lawyer they are using. When one knows that he/she is guilty, one knows - call in the lawyer!! Even before it goes public and viral.
     His poll numbers are the worst ever, 36% approval and 58% total disapproval with others feeling strong disapproval and distrust in Trump. The administration and in fact, the entire country is reeling. Our system, how to deal with a liar as president, with a businessman who has deleted all morals, all ethics, and plans on using this office as a means of furthering his business deals - our system is misfiring. And he knows it and this can be seen in the doubling and more of lawyer costs to his campaign fund.
     Meanwhile, Brian Sandoval, a good man who feels for the people who would be screwed by the so called health plan of the Republicans is being pressured to change his opinion and yet he remains sure and certain, knowing there is a difference between true healthcare and insurance and a sad and indeed sadistic substitute which will cover nothing - perhaps a toothbrush and a bandaid. He states “A lot of people’s lives and health and health care and quality of life is in the balance. I’m a former judge. I take in all the information, and then I make a decision, and that’s what I’m doing now." Let us hope he remains firm.
     At least there was a decent statement out of the White House condemning the horrific attack on Temple Mount that killed two policemen, two Druze who served proudly in the Israeli force, but this is not enough to cover or paper over all his other misdeeds.
     And in the meanwhile, we are being isolated ever more from the rest of the world as they proceed with the plans for saving the world from ourselves, building new trading treaties that will leave America out in the cold. America First means America alone. Make America Great Again is the kind of false and diametrically opposed statement that can be found within 1984 and the philosophy and actions of the Party in Oceania.
     Without all of us paying close attention to what is happening, without us expressing our complete disgust and opposition, here in CV and in the country, then we will live in a world where dictators thrive, where rights are stripped from people, where governments take rather than give, when they harm, rather than protect. That is not the world I want , not for me nor for my kids and grandkids, even though the Trump administration and his new Supreme Court think grandparents do not matter!!! The time is ready for dawn rather than 3 AM. Join in the fight.