Sixteen tons of muck. Sixteen tons of filth and this is being conservative. We have descended so far down, so deep in the muck and mire of immorality that I wonder sometimes if we will ever find our way back.
Yes, there has always been garbage going on in the political and entertainment worlds. People seem to not be able to control some of their baser instincts and even as the world liberalized a bit, there were those that took it as license to do whatever the hell they wanted to do and not worry about the consequences. Big people, little people, the stories just keep on coming out. Names and personalities that shock us. And some of the accused are wise enough and smart enough at this point to apologize, hoping that the apology will gain some sympathy for them, but there are others, led by the chief predator, Trump, who deny their own words and voice and just lie as a matter of course. Well, let us hope that they are hoist by their own petard, caught in their own lies, and face real damage in the courts of law. And I do not care who the accused is - position as President does not excuse prior immoral and illegal behavior and the offender needs to face his accusers and pay his debts. May that day come soon for you know who!
But the point is, is that it seems that we have all sold our souls to the devil in return for what? For position? For power? For wealth? For the opportunity and the implied 'right' to pull out not a particularly pretty part of one's anatomy and rub it in public and think women or young boys will swoon at the sight and become willing sex slaves?
I cannot wrap my head around this type of thinking, this willful blindness, this crude attempt to rule over all, to have no rules to follow other than where the baser desires seem to indicate. And the same people who offend in this area are the same people, in many cases, that scream the loudest in 'defense' of traditional values, shout how Christian value supporting they are, how family oriented they are, how strong and selfless they are in defending the honor of the country against the onslaughts of the gay community, of the transgender people, of any group of people whose ideas of sexual fantasy or rights differed from the 'traditional' one of simply imposing oneself on a person of the other gender - or not - as the case may be.
This immorality, this sense of entitlement, floods into other areas as well. Agreements and implied agreements to support the wishes of their big honcho donors. Drooling at the thought of raping the environment, of soiling the pristine parts of our country, disregarding the native Americans and their sacred lands, the crass willingness to destroy our environment, to violate the laws of the world which now understands the necessity to work on change in deeds and attitudes. So we ignore the spills that contaminate the land and sink into the water table of half the nation. We ignore it because the Fat Cats are making even more money even as they destroy the rest of the nation.
And leading the charge against all that is decent and right - why, the Republican party. They now have changed their statements and publicly support the pervert Moore, both Trump and the RNC. What matters decency against the tides of maintaining numbers in the Senate? What matters morality against the ability to keep passing bills which destroy all but the 1%? What matters truth against the deep need to support the lies already told, and the future lies to keep power, power, and more power!!
I am so tired of all this crap and yes, crap is what it is. We need to pick ourselves up and force our supposed representatives to step up to the plate of morality, of right and righteousness. We must throw in their faces the inherent wrong and evil in selling their votes for a supposed clause which will never remain because members of their own party will move against it. But sell their vote they did and put the American people in jeopardy is the what they did.
And among all the lost virtues is the virtue of patriotism and loyalty to one's country. These people seem to have one loyalty - to themselves and their bottom line. So play golf, yes, but legislate fairly, an emphatic NO!! Be loyal to our welcoming of immigrants, including members and generations of their own families - Nope again! Sell the nation down the river to our enemies if one benefits financially from that sale - oh, yeah!! And yet they are the loudest to scream patriotism even as they sell our country out.
I am so disgusted. I am so tired of trying to explain these behaviors to my grandchildren. I am growing more and more desperate in trying to figure out how to change this before we have gone beyond that which can be fixed. I am worried, no, frantic, at the thought of the future that awaits the world and in particular our country as I truly can envisage new Civil War, with people fighting in the streets, with blood running and a death toll that will be beyond believable, and a nation that will never recover.
I know I am but one person sitting here in the early morning hours, unable to sleep, yes, because as I age sleep comes with more difficulty, but also because I worry; far more than the usual worry about family, I worry for my country. I worry for my world. I worry about what will be and though I, as one person, have not the ability to change the world, then perhaps even if just one person reads these postings and thinks of something to do, to stem the tide, then I have done my job. Now others need to do theirs.
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