THE SLIME OF LIFE

     Well, thought I would write something else this morning, but the news tells me that I need to shift gears. So I did.
     Here is the topic, the question or the statement. You choose. We, the country, its citizens, its morals, its character, are all going down the chute to extinction and to the land of rejected governments, to join the "once there was a Camelot".
     Every day as I read the news, listen to it, think about it, I am more frightened than ever. Where is our democracy headed? You tell me, for perhaps you have a more optimistic state of mind and  could convince me that I am wrong, worried for naught. But - any explanation will have to explain away all the doubts, all the terror.
     First and foremost is the fact that we have as President a man who was never ever capable of fulfilling such a responsibility. And now? It is even worse as he appears to be in the stage of dementia where one is hostile, oppositional, engaged in illusions and  delusions and determined that one gets what one wants and never mind the harm it does in this determination.
     We have an administration that is most unstable, to say the least. Close to 30 people have been fired or resigned, and so many have been fired thru Twitter!!! This man thinks like an adolescent, one in the throes of egotism, of self centered behavior and thinking. He is cruel to the max what with his name calling, his trumpeting of those names, the childish habit of inventing cruel nicknames and insisting on using them ad infinitum ad nauseam. Truly the slime of life.
     The stability of the country is on a tilt. It is on a path of divisiveness, of anger and civil war. No one hears anymore. No one talks anymore. No one appears to be rational as they are caught in the fervor of the moment. People seem to be picking sides and refusing to move at all, determined to prove that they were right even as they know they were and are and will continue to be wrong - to a dangerous degree.
     Our leaders have lost their morals. They have decided to accept a moral degenerate as their Party leader and have behaved with him as one does with an all powerful dictator, but this is America! We are not supposed to have dictators. We are not supposed to tolerate a person who governs by dictat, by issuing one  executive order after another, most designed to serve the purposes and goals of big business and screw the people.
     And the lies. The lies!! Trump thinks that repeating the lie will make it go away or turn into the truth. Yes, it has worked before in history - Germany 1933, Italy with Il Duce and so many others. But not here!!! We have always had brave journalists who would uncover the truth, who would dig, who would muckrack and defend our country and its principles. But now we have the denigration of media - as long as they are anti Trump, as long as they are seeking the truth. However, those who support the Big Lie, such as Fox News, why their very personnel are welcomed into government and the line between government and media is growing very thin, erased completely in some places. Very dangerous indeed. The slime of life again.
    We are governed by a vicious man with vicious underlings, people who lie with filthy hands and mouths. And the truth keeps coming to the top. For how long has Trump been trying to shut down Stormy? Granted, she may not be the virgin princess, but that is not the point and why has he and his been trying for so long, using threats of all kind, including physical threats? Because it is all true!! Why has he been shouting to the heavens that there is a Witch Hunt re Russia and the Trump Organization and perhaps Trump himself? Because as more and more comes out we see that there certainly was and still is a big problem. Our President appears to be a Putin puppet! Slime.
     In addition, the man is cruel and vindictive. He fires a man who has stood up to his crazy demands just one day before he was to retire and collect his pension. And then he gloats about it, shouting on media sites. Nasty is as nasty does! Luckily there are others with hearts who will hire this man, McCabe and insure his right to his pension. But that is not the point. The point is that Trump is a creep. First, last and always!
     Even as the kids of today shout and demand that they not be targets  of assault weapons any more, Trump gives in to the filth of NRA. He reneges on any statements made re control. He overlooks the truth of this issue and instead crows about a raid in San Diego which nets 115 immigrants. And a person on the raid, in a position of responsibility states, "It's just another day in the life of an ICE officer....It's the job. It's what we do. It's the mission."
     I do not know about you, but this excuse of just doing a job, of rounding up people, of throwing them away, of mass imprisonments, of equating long term residents and short termers, of equating a business owner and family member with a gangster - it stinks to the heavens with hatred of others, of xenophobia, of all that is rotten in the world of humans and something that we should have eliminated long ago.
     Frankly, I am on the edge of calling for civil disobedience. No violence. Just making sure that our voices are heard. Ensuring that the elected personnel realize that Trump and hate cannot and will not save them in the next few elections. Make sure that the Republicans realize that their loyalty at the end must be with the people they are supposed to serve and not to the PARTY or to an immoral and allegedly criminal personality of infinite cruelty, misogyny, nastiness and total immorality. I see no other way and that is what is so frightening. But how else are we to ensure that the American dream lives on? You tell me.