ARE WE TRULY GOING THERE?

     Whither we go? We are at the fork in the road and the choice must be made. It might be a hard road that must be chosen, but good things do not come for free. The apparently easy road is the dark one, the one which says, "leave me alone" and thinks that one can just go on as before. It presumably refutes the truth that democracy must be fought for, guarded and demands must be met. That is the correct road, but do we truly understand that we are at this critical moment.
       The spineless wienies  of the Republican Party have turned on their roots, spurned Lincoln and his ideals and instead gone over to the dark side, to the side of pigs at the trough, glutting themselves on the money of the taxpayers and wiping their mouths with the remnants of the Declaration and the Constitution. In their trashing ride thru life they are stomping over the very members of society who need help, over those who are supposed to be the bulwark of society, the middle class, and instead promote a return to the feudal society and its unfair and harsh ways.
     Their leader is a liar, a demented and angry man who cares not a whit for others. He is definitely mindful of Hitler, a mad genius, an evil genius, whose path to his own destruction ran through genocide until his own hubris led him to ignore the advice of his own generals and  he lost the war. But until that time was a terrible time and we cannot afford that again.
       The lies of Trump are coming back to bite him in his ever so generous rear, but is it enough, soon enough. I think we need to move it along, now, for the impetus and the momentum is there as people who so erroneously supported him are finally shaking their heads and seeing the awful reality of what they have done.
       We are not building a wall at present, contrary to his lies, but we are planning to send thousands of National Guards to the border, to mass there, to capture and detain those trying for a new life, those kids who have come along on their own, the remnants of the American dream, the American ideal lying in shattered shards as we encourage our kids to beat others, to lose their humanity, or to go AWOL as they refuse these orders. In the meanwhile, our troops will not be properly trained for real battles and their funds will be wasted. What the hell are we doing??????
        I read three statements yesterday that say it all . One is from a candidate for governor who stated that we are presently in a war for the soul of America against a President without a soul. How sadly true. One said that we are "witnessing an all out attack on the core values of democracy....A war on truth, facts, and reason." The third was tweeted by a newcomer to Twitter and carried a message of hope, or a plea for it anyway. On the anniversary of MLK's assassination, we are asked to share our dreams and spread love and hope.
     Would that we all hear these statements and requests. Would that we all turn back to the proper path, back to respect for others, that we finally and for always spurn this madman in the White House and take him down thru the pathway that our laws provide. We must return to our America, our country, and not the country of hatred and prejudice, where people are randomly shot, where dangerous anti Semites have the gall and the voters!! to run for public office, where we forget who we are. This cannot be. This must not be.