WHO THE HELL KNOWS!!

     Once again: who's on first? And with all due credit to Abbott and Costello - who the hell knows! At this point in time I do not believe that anyone in the current administration knows the answer to any question or any issue. It is even difficult to be sure exactly who is what and holding what position at any given moment.
     So is Kelly in or out - and frankly, who the hell cares. Will Mulvaney be the next Chief of Staff and oy vey for all of us if he is, a man with no heart and evidently no soul. Who will be the next sexual predator to be uncovered and exposed - and then praised - in our now scuzzy White House.  Guess it is a toss up. Why I have even heard that the President himself is a sexual predator - LOL.
     Do the Republicans really care about budget deficits or is it only if it is under a Democratic leader? Does it truly matter, especially now that we know how few morals and backbone the Party has? Nope, guess it does not.
     Does the true value of a person matter or is it judge by the nasties. Now here I am stuck. Rippon was verbally attacked by Pence and here he is shining in his performance for the USA at the skating finals. Hmmm. So, Pence, is he still bad because he is gay or is he good because of his skating - go ask your wife, I guess, and how does this apply to a Catholic first grade teacher kicked out of a seven year great job performance because she married her partner. Uh oh, not the right kind of Catholic I guess. But then again, I guess Trump is the right kind of sexual molester since he is remaining in his position. Unlike many others who resigned or were fired or ostracized. Who determines what? Who the hell knows and frankly it seems to be who the hell cares. Gillibrand does though as she wants Trump's resignation or Congressional hearings. Me too!!
    You know how we always wonder how a medical treatment request gets turned down? Well, here ya go!! A doctor in charge at Aetna in California says he never looks at the records, just signs off on a nurse's recommendation and decision. Knew something was off there and if one company does it what do you think? Do the other companies do it? Hmmmmm.
     Who the hell knows if we are even living in a democratic country anymore or if we have truly started down not the yellow brick road, but the dirty, filthy and nasty road to perdition, the one that leads to an autocratic America, a country where your color or religion or orientation or ethnicity or country of origin if not native, are all that matter. Who the hell knows? Nope, wrong question here, for any thinking person knows the answer to that. Yes, we have begun going down that road and if Trump has his way then we are doomed to be the generation that sends America to the penalty box never to come out.
     So what is the future of America the Beautiful, the country, the America, that we ask G-d to bless. The one with brotherhood and sisterhood? Who the hell knows and yet, we do know. We will turn into a nasty caricature of ourselves as we used to be, as we are supposed to be. And the scariest thing about this whole thing is that it is not only one person, me, writing about this, but lots of smarter and tuned in essayists and pundits and thinkers who are writing the same thing.
     Now I know that I taught my students that I was always right! And I taught the same thing to my family! LOL, but here is a situation where I hope that I am so wrong in my fears. Am I? What is the answer to the question : who the hell knows?