NOW JESUS!!!!

     Well, this takes the cake. Instead of condemning disgusting behavior, instead of admitting that many men have a problem controlling their id, particularly men in  a position of power, large or small, over a woman, now some of the Republican conservatives have brought Jesus into the fray.
     Roy Moore, a disgusting human being from the get go, who should never have been allowed to run for his known violations of ethics and his twisted values, now is a Senate candidate for Alabama. And lo and behold, we hear that when he was in his thirties, he decided that a 14 year old girl was a proper sexual partner. But instead of apologizing, we get the excuse that Mary, the mother of Jesus was 14 and Joseph was an adult carpenter and together they raised Jesus. Dear Lord!! Will these perverts stop at nothing? Are there to be no boundaries any more? Are we to turn back the clock to more benighted times where not one of these revelations of sexual misconduct would have raised an eyebrow?!
     This whole boiling controversy just keeps getting better with Bannon, that misfit for humanity, equating this incident or disclosure with the release of the Access Hollywood tape of Trump, yet another pervert, and blames it on a conspiracy. I kid you not.
     We have indeed lost all sense of morality, of shame at our behavior, at the greed so rampant among the people of the higher economic classes. It seems the more money one has, the less one has to obey rules of morality, principles of society, care for the less privileged. It makes one sick to the stomach to realize this and take in all the revelations.
     People have lied, as for example, calling Papadopoulos a low level person even while he represented the Trump campaign at meetings with foreign officials - right up till the Inauguration. The appointees to the highest offices of the country all have lied and protected their wealth. We find that all the biggest companies and the universities have protected their funds in offshore accounts.Our officials have sold us down the river to Russia and it now looks as if Trump is developing another bromance with Xi of China and screw the people of America.
     And now for the piece de resistance - the tax "reform" bill. This bill will certainly enhance the lives of the uber wealthy. Trump tells people that it will make him "less rich' and the urge to upchuck is intense. What this supposed plan will do is crush the middle class, drain them of funds, of the wherewithal to live a life, and turn the applecart so far over that there will be no chance of righting it. And as for the other economic classes, they are royally screwed as well and  G-d forbid one in any bracket other than the ubers, has problems especially within the deduction issue. G-d help one who has medical expenses, heretofore allowed as a deduction after a certain point. Now - forget it - so to hell with chronic disease and condition expenses. To hell with rare disease. To hell with a family with a sick member. To hell with all, other than Trump and his buddies.
     It is time to pressure representatives and senators to vote against this bill should it come to the floor. The damage it will do is mammoth and do not think this is only in the domestic area. Our State Department is being decimated, with offices allowed to go unfilled, people laid off or quitting, important State affairs going begging, EPA going to the opposite of what it should be doing even as officials are awaiting appointments and the only thing that looks good for employment is ICE and Border Patrol!
     The ethical and moral values of the country, the very fabric of life, is rotting from within and there appears to be no end to it. Revelations come down the pipe at a dizzying rate and yet nothing really changes. Are we that blasé over all this rot? Do we not care? Are we not embarrassed in front of the world?
     Must we all become hopeless cynics and allow our future generations to become that as well as they too suffer the consequences of terrible decisions made in the times of today? Is it truly a new world, one without hope of change and progress but rather one of degeneration, of moral filth? I hope not but nothing will happen unless we all speak out, vote out the trash, and insist on proper behavior, disclosure and transparency from the new. This is the only way.