CAN WE TALK?

     So would ask the late Joan Rivers and off she would go, making people laugh even as sharp barbs of truth came through. We need to talk, desperately so, right now. But we need to talk with each other rather than at each other. The need is desperate and the time for reckoning approaching at a gallop.
     Dishonorable. Inability. Mentally deranged. Explosive. Limited. All these and worse are used to describe the President of the United States. While shocking and extreme, it is okay, for that is the freedom of the country and the world to judge a public figure. What is shocking is that the criticism is so horribly, fantastically true. Bigly so. Very sad but true.
    Never before have we had a President who lied so much, who does so as a matter of everyday behavior, a man who shows no self control as he tweets the day away, behaving like a Alpha girl taking off after her most recent target. Even were he to tell the truth at some critical moment the effort to believe him and act on that belief would be sorely challenged, for the truth appears to be a no go for this man. Ever.
     Corker did not plead. Pence went on OUR dime to set up a fund raising divisive moment. The players are trying to make a point in a non violent manner, not showing disrespect for the flag but for those who claim the flag allows discrimination, racial injustice, hatred, prejudice. No, women do not like to be molested and sexually attacked. Bannon is an outright hate monger and the President backs him, encourages him and Bannon has come out now in full roar to defend Trump. A man wounded, beaten horrifically at Charlottesville now has a warrant out for him on "unlawful wounding" - possibly the result of a flashlight swing he did to protect a man being speared by a flagpole!!
     A city official takes back his resignation due to two racial slurs  he made about ADAs. Russia takes advantage of the anger, the rage, the disappointment of the American people and stokes it even more via Facebook, You tube and ads all over the place. They talk frequently with the Trump campaign. 
     There is no controlling this man and his "base" appear to be now mainly the dregs, those who carry the tiki lamps and red flags at rallies, those who scream with glee when a threat comes out of his mouth, when yet another black man is beaten down, when yet another synagogue is defiled with a swastika. The rest, I have no clue as to why they are still there in his camp other than the refusal to admit, to realize how wrong they were and how dangerous this man is.
     Women stand to lose all they have gained over the past century from respect to control over their own bodies, from the right to work to the right of equality in all spheres, including payment for a job or position. And it should make no difference how a woman is dressed or if she sashays down the street. Her right to do so, whether one likes it or not, is her right and she should not be attacked nor held responsible for an attack any more than a man in overly tight pants ,all the better to show off his junk should be liable to attack by other men or women disturbed by his manner of dress or walk.
      We casually toss around threats of nuclear war, of nuclear bombs, forgetting that we all share a planet and there is no hiding from the fallout. Or are we planning to return to the films of the fifties where people hid underground for millennia and then emerged only to meet the monsters and mutations of the surface!!! Face reality, folks.
     The White House has lost control over its main resident. Melania has finally woken up when Ivana said that SHE was the First Lady. Not sure what difference that claim makes! Senators are talking in private over the walking disaster of Trump but are afraid to speak out. Where is their courage? Would they have allowed slavery to continue were it brought up in their term of service if the President of the times had defended it? Moral outrage and the courage to act on it are desperately needed these days. So desperately.
     Millions upon millions of years ago there was a beautiful orb spinning in space with pristine waters, lands of grass and beauty, with all that one could need to live a beautiful life. The animals roamed in grace and freedom, only having to deal with natural enemies, a balance kept on this orb.
     Then Danger!! A new creature, a furless, two legged, ostensibly weaker creature came to this orb and the world was changed for all time. Sent to live a good life, a life of honor, of devotion, of kindness and righteousness, man instead turned to violence and greed and the Creator looked down upon His Creation and despaired. Are we at that time again when G-d will look down upon us and wonder where He went wrong and what to do? And if one does not believe in a G-d, in a Power, then one can believe in the natural morality of life, the path we should be following and the point of near destruction that we have ourselves created upon this Earth.
     I have never before been so frightened in my life for my life, for the lives of my children and grandchildren, for the lives of my people and for the lives of us all. We exist in hate and anger. We know what is wrong yet persist in doing it. We know the consequences but ignore them in a selfishness to amass more money, more power. The time for reckoning draws ever nigh. I, for one, would rather put that off for a while! We are at one minute to midnight and the clock is ticking.
     TICK. TOCK. TICK. TOCK.