EVER WONDER?

     Did you ever wonder how things got to this point? Did you ever wonder how the hell we make some progress and fix the messes all around us? Does it make you feel blue, disconcerted and in despair? Well, take some ......... and you will feel so much better, that is, aside from suicidal tendencies and thoughts, headaches, strokes, heart attack and awful rashes!
     Sound familiar?  We hear this and similar statements countless times daily, be it on the TV or radio as the sponsors have their moments. So one can be cured, but then dead! Great job! So why continue this? Because we have been taught and encouraged to think that there is a quick fix to everything. Just pop a pill or two, call x, y, or z, or better yet, go for a payday loan and blow the rest of your life!
     There has to be a stop to this type of thinking for it permeates all of our thinking and when we come up against something that cannot be all better in or with a quick fix, then we kind of fall apart, either curling up in denial or bluster away or threaten who knows what and waste our energy on useless paths and ideas rather than getting to the crux of the matter.
    We are all guilty of this type of false thinking, looking for that magic cure-all. We then look for a guilty party or even an innocent party to blame. Oh, it must be those immigrants breeding away - a la Trump. Or it is those poor people or even it is that filthy rich class that has sucked up all the money in the world. And then we listen to words of foolishness and inanity, words of no sense and think we have gotten some answer, and we need to place our trust in the person or persons making and backing those statements.
     So we get to who's on first situations. So we cannot discuss the possibility of presidential pardon for Cohen by Trump because it has not happened yet but if it does....? And then we are told to speak to attorneys about this but hey, they have nothing to do with it - it is all on Trump and therein lies a huge problem for me. Ever hear of one crook pardoning another so the second crook will not rollover on the first? Huh? Kinda the fox and the henhouse situation. And yet here we are in that very situation.
     And by the way, why is a pardon needed if he did not do anything wrong? And why does Trump not stand up and say he is not worried because he did nothing wrong but Trump is not doing that. Instead he is ranting and raving all over the twitter world with his ignorant and infantile and limited language and use of capitals to make his point.
     We get to the point of wondering if there is anyone left out there who is honest and righteous and patriotic in the proper sense, who does not have an insane desire to harass or cheat or run people over or even better shoot them and then of course have the rant of the NRA re the importance of access to assault weapons! Certainly we cannot feel safe and secure when yet another nominee of Trump's is under suspicion for some "raw allegations' and what the hell does that mean? And why did that semi nude guy shoot up the Waffle House - gee, not even an immigrant! And why does it seem that people now seem to think that vans are weapons of mass murder?
     I have no answers to these questions. We need to be more vigilant and careful in whom we place our trust. We need to think more carefully and for the longer term. We need to look into the future and evaluate all consequences and most important of all, somehow, someway, we need to inculcate morals and values, true ones, not fake ones, not hypocritical ones, not surface ones and we need to develop a moral backbone, an open heart and mind, and a knowledge of the fact that we are all one on this lonely planet and what one does affects all else. Think there is a pill or quick fix for that? I do not.