Some people get clear instructions. Follow the yellow brick road. Pass three lights and take a right. Or, if in Israel, one gets one of two - straight ahead and/or half a kilometer.
But there are times in life when decision making, choosing a path, is not so easy and is, in fact, confusing to the nth degree. So what does one do at that point?
Well, one can delay the choice, the decision. But that is only temporary. Or one can close one's eyes and stick a pin in something. Or one can sit down and think, list pros and cons, and know that one will never know what would have been if.... But once that decision is made, what a relief. One can almost hear the "plop, plop, fizz, fizz" of it all.
We here in America are at that time and we must make a choice. Are we going to be stubborn and defend a mistaken result of erroneous votes and an anachronistic Electoral College or are we going to take the difficult but better road of correction, of fixing the yawing of the ship of state?
I, for one, am embarrassed at the face we Americans are now showing to the world. We , in contrast to many banana republics, to besieged republics in Africa, have refused to remove our corrupt and immoral head of state whereas these others have done so. So why is that? Why are we hanging in there with this bizarre image of a president? Why indeed.
Every day we get worse news coming down the track. There is now a wondering what will be the tweet of the day. We are hearing that the WH is in a state of chaos - duh! We are hearing that Trump is angry and ranting, on the edge. Well, in my opinion, he has long ago fallen off that edge!
What we must do is act. Instead, the pundits are now openly discussing the possible firing of Rosenstein and then what? Why do we do this? Why do we almost legitimize this possible action instead of condemning it outright and saying 'you had better not". Where are the morals, the backbones, the balls of these Republican Congressmen and Senators? So many are just walking away from it all, walking into lucrative positions on boards of companies they helped, or law firms or wherever, but they are leaving the country in the midst of a storm as they back away from the fray. Now do not get me wrong - good riddance to them and their backwards and cowardly voting and behavior, but why are they doing this? Why are they so afraid to stand up to this creep? Are they so afraid they will find themselves in a National Enquirer story. So what? No one believes them anyway unless the reader is himself needing of mental help!
I just do not get it. I just don't. Bonnie Tyler sang of needing a hero. Well, seems they are in short supply on the ground. But all we really need are good people, not even heroes. All we need are people to choose the correct path, not the easier one, not the one that leads to personal benefits, but the one that serves the country, the one that will cut through the crust of corruption that is now smothering DC.
I am well into the path of despair but do hope that I see some glimmerings yet remaining. But unless we all clap to confirm that they indeed do exist, a la Tinkerbell, then woe upon us. Woe upon us as we sink into the morass of a dictatorship. Woe upon us as we lose our history and allow our democracy to become a dead part of history. Woe upon us should we choose the evil over good and make no mistake about this - it is a choice of good over evil. Period!! Make the right choice.
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