While in my own personal life I am feeling the lift, the buoyancy of love and encouragement, in my shall we say, public life, as a citizen of the United States of America, I am in the dumps, bewildered, torn, and worried beyond words.
No mincing words today. Today we have a man who is going to make a speech that should try to unite the country, that should make amends for this year's sins, that should give us a hope for the future. But it will not.
Even if that man stays on script, and repeats the words written for him by a staff trying to maintain a semblance of order, the words will mean nothing. Even if he were to promise a DACA reform tomorrow, he would deny it as fake news and media fooling around with the tapes. The man is unstable and not one single word of his can be trusted or relied upon.
Yes, it appears I am an armchair psychiatrist and here is my take on this overgrown infant, indulged by his family, had his path bought for him by his family, and he has found his way to a position which allows him to vent his tantrums in a majestic manner.
We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis. We have a Congress which has given up, ceded its powers and checks and balances over to Trump. We have a judiciary that has been co-opted more and more by the Executive branch, more specifically, the White House Oval Office and the man sitting therein at the desk or most probably somewhere else watching TV and tweeting his limited brains out. We have a Justice Department that has lost its constitutional independence and ceded its powers to Trump, allowing him to use the powers of his threats, the power of his influence, the powers of the fear of some about losing their own 'power' to introduce fear as a major factor in his administration. He rails against the 'lack of loyalty' within Justice though it is not supposed to have loyalty to him but rather to the people of the country.
Even Spicer regrets his stupidity while working for Trump. Trump's own wife is angry at him and who can blame her and perhaps she should act more proactively and show some emotion on that stiff model's face. She has not become part of the non partisan group of First Wives, just left standing alone. Why? You answer that.
So McCabe leaves, Nadler is calling upon his constitutional expertise, Trump is reeling down the halls of his responsibility and people' fingers are crossed that he remain on script tonite but again, what does it matter? The fantasies he and his dream up, the careless way in which they handle state secrets and endanger others, the excuses Trump makes for Putin and Russia, the awfully shady dealings with Russia re the campaign and even Trump's personal business - where does it end - or does it? And why the rabid fight against answering questions and being transparent as others did before? It stinks!!
I am at a loss as to how to define and explain how we reached this point, a severely divided country, one reeling with hatred, with the ugliness of the soul being bared for others to see and what is worse, the pride that some take in this whole mess. We are in a time when there is no loyalty to the country, but rather to the Party, particularly among the Republicans. The Democrats are going to have to agree to disagree within themselves and just get together as a group and oust all these dangerous and deluded people who long to turn the gold of our country, our democracy, into the lead of a dictatorship. How to explain the selfishness of people who turn a blind eye to a planet writhing in the agonies of climate and environmental change? How to explain all this.
I have words. Yes, they are there, but are there any words that can adequately say it all and wake people up? To this question all I see is the answer in proverbial dark clouds.
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