THE TRUTH OF IT ALL

     "Truth. Justice. The American way."
     Remember that? The slogan for Superman and for so many of us as we grew up, indicating where and for what we should aim. And maybe we were naïve. Maybe we were living in a pie in the sky world and did not truly understand the world of the adult, but many of us carried these ideals into adulthood and many of us served the public, took part in organizations for those who needed help, and did not only think of what the trough could hold for us.
     So what happened? Why suddenly have we become a nation that has reverted to ideas and behavior of the past, of selfishness, of prejudice, of the acceptance of all of that, of the forgetting of the reasons one becomes a public servant. Yes, it is a job, but yes, it is also considered public service - not private service. Unfortunately for us all, we now have a set of people in DC who seem to feel that "emptying the swamp" means getting rid of experienced people, the kernel of public servants who see to it that the country runs and either not replace them, or do so with selfish creeps who are so self impressed that they need their own retinue of security people, of flags, of cars, of fancy planes, of obscenely overpaid friends, of special "bargains", of incompetence, irrationality, selfishness, greed, hatred, and total lack of forethought and consequences. Other than that, they are just fine!!!!
     So where did we all go wrong? Where did we lose the right path and when did the American Way become nasty and selfish? When did truth and justice become nonentities, so much so that they are looked upon with a jaundiced eye and a palate which has no taste for it at all.
      I truly cannot answer the question. All I know is that I see a bunch of old fools there who have lost their way, lost their substance and think only of remaining in office. There are no spines among them and then, of course, we have the doctrinaire younger set who know nothing other than greed, excess partisanship and sheer hubris. This is not a government. Not for America. Never.
     The cherry on top? The fact that these people are worshipping and bowing down before a madman, a vicious, nasty and hateful man with no morals, with no soul, with no heart. What will history say about this all as it gets evaluated? I shudder to think of the words and the anger and the contempt for us all for allowing this. I only hope that this is not the fall, the decline, the end of us all. I truly hope that this man gets stopped before he truly brings down the best democracy that history has wrought.
     The truth of it all? Bad, bad news.