Feeling a tad better than yesterday, but just looking at the news on the various pages can bring one to the knees within a nanosecond. I remember back to the good old days when at least the wrongdoings of officials were hidden in the dark, not brazenly boasted of, not so alarmingly large in scope and certainly not to conspire with the enemy. Nor was it okay for the President of the United States to plot and plan for his bottom line to gain momentum should he be elected. Yet that is what we have today - a brazen open display of greed, of shenanigans barely under the covers, of filth and cruelty beyond all belief.
So is that the way to achieve success in this world? Is this what we are to tell our grandchildren? Cheat. Lie. Be filled with hatred of 'others'. Remember the bottom line is money, money, money. Never mind hard work, honesty, cooperation, respect of and for others, doing the right thing, remembering that morals and the right outweigh the greed. Life is different now and it is not a change for the better.
Never before have I ever had such disrespect for a president. Never did I think it would ever be. And the underlings, from Vice president to Secretaries, to various underlings and those hanging around - the greed, the attitudes, the nastiness - whoa!! It is astounding in its depths and widths.
So yesterday we had Tillerson trolling Trump, using this language and while the name was not mentioned, it was very clear, crystal clear, as to whom the target was. "If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom."Yet Tillerson must accept a share of the blame for this state of affairs as he willingly served and evidently had little effect on his master and nor did he speak up while in office. Shame, shame. Everybody seems to have lost their moral courage, forgotten the righteous outrage that demands public condemnation.
Where were the mouths yesterday to condemn yet another racial rant by Trump, calling illegal immigrants animals! This is the pride he takes in some of his worst deeds. I guess he should also take pride in his new facilities meant to "warehouse" the children who are ripped from their parents, taken away, lost in the shuffle and worse. Read it and weep. “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people, these are animals, and we’re taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that’s never happened before.”
And what is coming out of the reports and papers that are being released is enough to make one mourn for an age where patriotism was real and valued over greed, when the president , the President! did not sell out his country for money. Did not collude with his son who conveniently loses his recall of the calls he made, most probably to his father after and around these meetings. The guy does nothing without papa's permission but suddenly his memory gets fuzzy.
It is at times like this that I can undo some of the sadness of my PD when I think of the condition of the world today and its ugly lack of recognition of virtue and morality, at its emptiness in the cupboards of courage.
Will we ever return to status quo or better yet, the improvement of the status quo? Somehow, I have major doubts at this point. Sad. Bigly sad. Fantastically sad.
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