....my head is spinning....
Remember the song? Well, it is perfect for the times of today. It is especially so for us poor seniors who sometimes cannot remember where we put our glasses! I am wondering if I can recall the name of any of his appointees....hmmm....Ahhh, DeVos, that fool. So there is still hope for our recall.
But seriously, what a mess in our government and yet a fright too. As the Secretaries and deputies and assistants go down like ten pins, as people are knocked out due to lack of security clearance and why that took over a year to happen is beyond me, except to frighten me, look at the results. More and more the surviving population is beginning to look, no, past beginning, to look like the entry way to a Firster convention, complete with the advocate of torture!
The atmosphere today is vile, poisonous. If one protests then one is put into a special hell of Trumpism - the hell where one stands all alone as in dodgeball and has to take all the name calling, the nastiness, the vindictiveness that Republicans can throw. So two brave and outspoken kids from Stoneham are called names, one deriding a mind and the other the orientation. And this is done by a supposed grown up but it seems that there are no more grownups in the Party, only bullied wimps and nasty mouths, all pandering and fawning before the would be king.
I am dizzy from the turnaround in our country, from one practicing democracy, where human rights are valued, where there is a safety net for society, where there is hope, where the Statue of Liberty's words were still valid to a country of growing fascism, yes, fascism, wherein protest is bad, hatred is good, women are to be kept in their place and men have the right to abuse and hassle. It is becoming a land where there is less hope for the future, a land where brute force and bad mouthing is the way to go, where protests turn violent and where we are truly being ruled by the inmates!
We all semi joked that we needed to move to Canada and hoped they would not put up a wall, but seriously, I have never heard so much talk now of where we - Jews - are to go should the situation worsen. Up 57%, the instances of anti Semitism continue to grow, in both talk and physical violence. And remember, if one should say well, whew, I am not Jewish, it does not really matter. The lies abound, you are what these people make you and hatred does not end, never!!
I'm so dizzy that I am wondering if I am really seeing the children of this man running around mouthing off with their opinions, the entire family gaining on their bottom line even as they put on a face of sacrifice for the country - HA!! I am wondering where all the true patriots, the idealistic, the altruistic, government servants went. Where and when did we lose the idea of public service and when did it become just a step or rung of the ladder to enriching oneself. When did we lose our 'Americanism' and become just a larger behemoth aping the dictatorships of the rest of the world. When did we trade in our pride as First Country for the existence as a western hemisphere example of corruption and falsehood.
So I need to find, we need to find, something to hold on to. Whether Lamb beats Saccone, he till wins, we still win, as Trumpism loses its hold on the people there. It would be a minor win, technically as the district is scheduled to go down, but it is a telling victory actually and gives us hope that there might actually be an end to this crude imitation of true administration.
I'm so dizzy with the possibility!! Hope seems to waft into the room. Hope that we can return to our good roots, to the strides we have made, to the progress we have made and that truly - all are equal in opportunity and rights. My head is spinning with the possibilities. But we must keep up with these chances to fix the mess. The inmates have got to be returned to their asylum and we must resume our position as champion of the world, of liberty, of pride in ourselves and our true achievements. Can we? Will we? Ohhh, I'm so dizzy....
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