TECTONIC SHIFTS

     Last nite Oprah Winfrey spoke of a tectonic shift, talking of the outing of the sexual harassment of women not only in Hollywood and the entertainment and news media but also in every field. The truth will be a powerful tool for the betterment and improvement of the world - and not only in this area but in all areas of the world. This message was carried through via the black dresses and gowns of the women and even the men, with their black tuxedos and many black shirts as well as wearing the pin stating #Timesup
     We are, at present, in the midst of the worst record for truth telling ever. Never before have we had a president who is so enmeshed in telling lies, in denying and avoiding the truth. Never before has a president been tracked for the enormous amount of lies he has told. Never before has a president said he is going to give out awards for Fake News, etc. It is just appalling.
     Never before have we had such planned interviews where the interviewee has been handed a strategy by the administration to lie, to focus attention on accusations of "fake News", to not answer the question asked but to instead, attack the interviewer. It got so bad yesterday, that finally Tapper lost patience and  closed out the interview and still, Miller refused to leave the studio until escorted out by security. 
     This is no way to run a country. This is no way to gain the confidence of the electorate nor that of the world. So  now we have the CDC planning a lecture on how to survive a nuclear attack, for Heaven's sake. Preppers are planning their strategies and shelters and the stocking of all sorts of supplies is ramping up. Trump and his childish counterpart trade threats and I do not know which one is the sicker one!!
     We find out that the 'games' of war that Russia played in September was indeed a rehearsal for a full scale attack on the West. I feel we are going backwards, right back into the heat of the Cold War, in its uncertainty, in its threats to life as we know it, in its unthinkable consequences.
     But people are waking up. People are finally realizing the danger that this man poses to us all. Farmers, who supported Trump, who put up big signs on the highways, now realize that whoa!!! his trade policies, his isolationism, are putting them at even greater risk of poor sales, of lower incomes and of higher taxes on that income, of high tariffs imposed on American produce due to Trump and his terrible policies.
     What is even more shocking, more concerning, is the total collapse of the Republican Party. They only seem to have woken up in dealing with the marijuana issue with Republicans whose state has more liberal policies suddenly screaming about the plans of Trump. Well, where the hell were they when he was perpetrating the rape of America? And suddenly they have become environmentalists when the permission to drill for oil on the coasts is being given. Suddenly this is the only violation of the environment that they speak of and why? Because their state's tourism trade and dollars will be threatened.
     Well, wake up, Republicans. Wake up. Trumpism is the destruction of all that we hold dear. I have been shouting this for months and months, pointing out the disasters he has perpetrated, the insulting behavior, the big and stupid mouth, his constant insults and the very real issue of his dementia and derangement. Now people are speaking up but where were they all these months? Where were they while our fabric as a nation was being destroyed, eaten away by Trumpism? And where were the moral ethics, the moral backbone of these Republicans? Where? Not anywhere to be seen, none at all, as they all caved and fawned over Trump, or gave in to fear of his mouth.
     So it is truly up to us, we the people of the country, to speak up, to demand that our representatives in politics learn or rather remember what their primary responsibility is - to run and administer government according to the Constitution, to watch and protect our free press, to better the lot of our citizens and to remember that we are all immigrants, be it of this time or two generations ago or five. It does not matter. We all came here with the intention of starting over, of having a hope for a better future for our children, to be able to worship as one believed, to have the ability to become educated, to better oneself.
     And if our representatives, including the President, cannot remember this, cannot put aside their selfish desires, their lack of moral spine, then out they must go. And who decides that - we the people.
     WE THE PEOPLE