ARE WE REALLY THERE?

         Yesterday, while driving past a gun range, it slipped out. I, who have long raged against the availability of semi assault weapons, said, "Maybe we should buy one." They are so heavy I do not even think I can lift one, but the important thing was the statement, heretofore anathema to me.
     So why say it? Well, folks, I think we are just about at that point. The wood is stacked, the tinder is there and the match is all but lit and ready to apply fire to said woodpile. What wood, you ask? What match? What fire?
    Take a look around. We have a President who is clearly accelerated in the pace of his devolvement into some kind of demented hermit, hulked and hunkering down on his couch, tweeting away to Fox & Friends, paranoid about his so called enemies, even tweeting openly in his ever growing personal attacks on Mueller and at times deflecting off to Rosenstein, and yet his aides state that he is growing ever more confident in his role as President. Yikes!! Lord help us!
     That confidence is not a good thing since it is not leading towards better decisions, better policies, only more and harsher threats, now even threatening the Senate if they do not break his way, with 79 cloture votes already in the first 14 months of his administration as compared to a total of 17 cloture votes in the first 14 months of previous presidents. (You know, as I sit hear writing this, it occurs to me how similar this behavior is to the behavior of David Israel, who sits there, hunkered down in his office in UCO, all day and into the nite, on Sundays, no life at all it seems, and yet what does  he do there? Who the hell knows. He sings for UCO people during the day, evidently a fan of The Mikado, imitates people whom he detests and about whom he has paranoid thoughts, so what? brothers of other mothers? Hmmm. But that is for another blog. Details to follow.)
     The world of Trump, his mind and his mouth are rife with lies, fantastical statements of Japanese testing American cars by dropping bowling balls on the hoods, admitting, no, boasting, about telling a lie to Trudeau, so proud of himself, and where are his human sides? No where I could find. His wife cannot stand him, as evident by her behavior and stances with him. There is never a father son photo and remember, other children have lived in the White House and there were family pictures as well. Not here. Poor Barron. Poor kid. Truly, I feel for him, though not for his annoying and perhaps even dangerous brothers.
     So why the statement about a weapon. Why? Because I believe we are at a tipping point. We have biased hatemongers who are bold enough to come out with disgusting statements, the last being a Councilman from DC, emboldened and stupid enough to blame the weather on Jews, the Rothschild family in particular. Oh, the power we Jews have! Not! other than giving so much to the world, from the Bible to religion, to inventions and theories, to culture, both content and funding, to humanitarian organizations, to fighting for Civil Rights for all - but oh, for sure, we caused the snow to fall!!
     The hatred that is rising to the surface, like the scummy stuff it is, along with the sleazeballs who promulgate it, the divided country with the lines of division growing deeper and deeper, and the impending major constitutional crisis should this maniac fire Mueller and/or Rosenstein, all piled up as wood for the fire with the match and the potential to start a terrible fire being held in the dangerous and maniacal hand of Trump. 
    So America teeters on the brink of a terrible civil war. The demented demagogue at the heart of it, along with the wimpy and soulless, brainless, cowardly, spineless Republicans who go along with him, who suck up to him, combined with the alt right and its ever growing extremism are positioned against the violent anti-fas, the power and determination of the young and those who cannot stand to read the stories and see the photos of children being ripped from their mothers at the border, little ones, babies, teens - what the hell are we doing? They took the children away in the camps, in Bosnia, in Rohingya, in Nigeria, wherever there is a dictator and hordes of haters along with a faulty leader. We sneak about getting personal info on people, using this to help Trump get elected. We allow a foreign enemy entry into our elections, violating our very foundation and all along we have a President who is growing ever more frantic as Mueller nears the truth.
     Trump screams there is no crime, yet people have been indicted, pled guilty. There is no collusion he states, yet that evidence is growing too. The filth of his money dealings, his business with Russia even during his campaign, the wreck of morality, his disgusting behavior with and attitude towards women - all this and more, folks, are piling up. And why so frantic if there is nothing to hide? Where are those tax returns?
     So, back to the gun, the rifle. Why? Because I am growing ever more leery, no - frightened - at the thought and the growing possibility of a civil war and not just with civil disobedience. Nope. This will be complete with rioting in the streets, violence, attacks on people and infrastructure and sooner or later the first shot will go off. Will it be a Nation Guardsman shooting at a college kid as at Kent University? Will it be a US Army soldier shooting at a National Guard position? Will it be a civilian who has just about had it? Or will it be a hate filled extremist, on either side, who will light that fire. And once lit, that fire will consume us, the country, our democracy and then, and then.....hence the weapon. Never, ever, did I think I would feel this way. Never - and yet here we are.