DO NOT GO TO SLEEP!

     Even now, as grownups, we still awaken at times to see a weird shadow that looks like a monster or a thief and we lie there in a stiff terror wondering just what to do. It takes some time, but we convince ourselves it is nothing and hopefully we are back asleep.
     Today, these times, have given us monsters on the wall, under the bed and in the closet, hanging from the ceiling and tramping around in the attic. It seems there is no lack of monsters and monster wannabes and certainly not for lack of trying. As amusing as it is at times, it is truthfully a nightmare that seems to advance every time we shut our eyes so....do not go to sleep.
     I wonder, at times, if it is the proper environment, the proper times to start a new , third party and perhaps get rid of a formerly sane major one which has stood itself on its collective ears, trying shamefully to outdo each other in their slavish and cultish adoration and flattering of an insane man bent on the destruction of the USA as constitutionally set up. The members of this party are shouting at each other in a kindergarten free for all and yet it is not kindergarten, it is the government and it is our future. Time for a Republican Party to return to its roots of Abraham Lincoln, of all it stood for, and let the old one rot the way it deserves, right along with its current master.
     Are we not ashamed? Are we not diving into the sleep mode in order to hide ourselves from the shame of it all? All the knowledge was there; it just took some work to put it all together. So now we have a sexual pervert, misogynist, nasty, illiterate, bored, tweeting man as president and now it is an open secret and a court case, one which the IRS can actually turn into  a Federal case,  a cheater, a thief of donated funds meant for charity taken and used to settle private debts, court settlements and fines, political donations and who knows what all else. And this is what we present to the world as our chosen leader?! Go back to sleep and hope this is a nightmare that will dissipate with the dawn.
     But wish as we might, it will not disappear; it will only get worse if we continue to sleep at the wheel. Jeff Sessions is a creep of the highest magnitude. He is a man of slave owning mentality and I could just see him hiring masses of Simon Legrees to carry out his bidding. When the Pope calls the separation of families immoral, Sessions rebounds with a religious justification, a Biblical justification, if you will, for his godawful policy. The hypocrisy, the ugliness, the cruelty, the sheer wrongness of the whole thing and this is the head of the Justice Department?!!!! Nightmares indeed, and nightmares that seem to inflict us whether we are asleep or up.
     This man, this increasingly dictatorial and mad man, now honors the dictators and murderers of the world - Putin, Kim Jong-un, Duterte, the Moslem countries where Christians and women and other religions or even sects of Islam are slaughtered, and right here in our country, such as it remains, he plumps for the biased, the hateful and hate filled candidates and threatens all who do not fall under his thumb.
     Truly, we have lost our way, awake or asleep. We have sleepwalked through life as of late and we now have to live with a tribal country, one that will split along terribly deep lines and who knows what will happen then. All I do know for sure is that there are people like me who will not submit, who will not go down without a fight, who will demand that we return to America. The land of the free, the home of the truly brave, the land that G-d can truly bless, and not the fake and cruel religion of Sessions. Wake up, USA. Wake up!!