GOING, GOING, GONE

     What is it that is gone? It is truth. It is reality. It is honesty. And it is all our rights as guaranteed by our Constitution. Where is it that they have gone? Into the ether of Trumpworld, a very bad place to be. In that ether are the disappearing terms of free speech, of equality, of safety, of separation of church and state, of free and equal access to the internet, of the right to be free of threats and harm, of the expectation of protection by our government. All these and more are gone because so Trump has willed and so all the Republicans have fallen in line, lost all their spines and all their shall we say, "manly" organs. Even the women who stood up to Trump on the medical care bill are melting away and we, the people, where are we? Why we are waiting as lambs to the slaughter to shoulder $1.4 trillion dollars added to the debt, watching the obscenely wealthy have yet more money to spend even as we, the plain old people who struggle to pay our debts, put food on the table and keep a roof over our head are gong to be forced to absorb a tax increase - yes, increase. And what are the Republicans doing now? They are crowing like idiots, seemingly thrilled by the fact that they actually might get something passed and screw the people if that is what it takes.
     And screw their safety too. We now have their basic rights and needs threatened and what else? Why their very survival. Why is that? Because that idiotic and moronic Donald has opened that fat mouth and engaged in threat exchanges with the other screwball in North Korea and now that country has achieved a goal - it can not only reach mainland USA, but has Hawaii practicing bomb drills and now even the East Coast can be reached! Never mind the airheads, the dangerous airheads of D. C. for what I am concerned about is the population of the cities and the countryside, in danger because we have a despotic, unthinking, selfish administration, a degenerating leader in place and a hopelessness which has gripped the country.
     Do we have any hope? Well, we have the brave people who are standing up to him, taking him to court, suing him, protecting those unable to protect themselves. We have the Budget Office who might possibly shock some people into their senses when they come out with the cost of this tax bill. We have the people who are speaking out and quite frankly, I am concerned that this opposition might actually progress further if the situation worsens and hope fades. Are we doomed to have another Civil War? Are we doomed to see our country split into smaller independent and separate nation states? Will America be a dream whose time has come and gone? Do you think that I am talking out of my hat? Not really, for with others, including an essay in the Times yesterday, re the horrific fact that our President is NOT a loyalist patriot, we should all be scared, frightfully so.
     With this man at the helm we are being steered into stormy waters. He denies facts that are in evidence. He encourages and supports perverts - as he is one himself - and the plaintive plea of a victim of Moore rends the heart for is this what we are to expect in Trumpworld?   "What you did to me when I was 14-years old should be revolting to every person of good morals. But now you are attacking my honesty and integrity. Where does your immorality end?" 
      Cry for her, people, cry for her, for she is not alone and will certainly not be the last. And with the Democrats and the Republicans now not even talking to each other and with the small minded Ryan and McConnell running around so happy because their boss now seems to love them - where will this all end?
     Why do people even believe the promises this man , this excuse of a man, makes? I do not think he has kept any promise or kept his word on anything, other than to twist and lie, to force reality to change to his image and version and to leave us in a precarious and dangerous state.
     "Mene,, mene, tekel oopharsin" So it was written on the wall of the palace of the Babylonian king. He was warned that he has been evaluated, found wanting and his days are numbered. In our situation the question is - whose days are numbered? The days of Trump and his cohorts or the days of us and our Republic? Our choice? Maybe. But we had better make that choice soon or have it taken out of our hands.