HYDRILLA

     Hydrilla. It is an aquatic plant not native to this country or continent and it clogs up our waterways. It takes beautiful bodies of water and turns them into some kind of floating mats of this stuff and it is ugly. Personally speaking, it has ruined the lake just outside my window and not for the first time either. If not taken care of immediately, it begins to overwhelm its new home and therein lies a lesson for us all. Take care from the beginning and do not let it grow into an almost insurmountable problem. Unfortunately, we seemed to have missed the boat here in CV and now we have yet another uphill battle with this thing. Where is David Israel? Why is he not getting on top of this ASAP? Because he is seemingly AWOL, down with some issue or other and the same as with Bob Marshall or anyone else, if one is too ill to do or perform the responsibilities of one's office, there needs to be  a resignation and a new and more capable person installed. Now!
     Now to the larger world. We seem to have been inflicted with hydrilla in real life outside this Village as well. Certain ideas of Europe do not fit well here. They are not native to our country and need to be gone. At our very founding we tossed away the dictatorship of kings and insured that we would have a free and democratic government that has grown progressively over the years into an even more inclusive one. The old and broken and mean hydrilla coming over the ocean from Europe and Asia are not for us. These regimes that limit liberty, that kill journalists and stomp on free speech, that threaten to prosecute or more appropriately persecute and jail advocates for human rights, for free press, for democracy, these regimes and their ideas have no place here in the USA. And yet, here we go, with one who would have that here. This is one who has brought a hydrilla  overflow into our country, behaving as a tyrant, shouting and ranting, tweeting his minimal brains out, demanding obsequious praise from his underlings and growing ever larger in his body as his mind continues to shrink. A mat of hydrilla like ideas. Bad. So bigly bad. So fantastically bad.
     Every day there are more shady characters introduced into the lexicon of people in the Trump camp who have a rotten odor around and about them. Every day we hear of more and more shady dealings and yet, there is Pruitt, still leeching off the American taxpayer and that used mattress he needs from Trump - yich!!!! And of course we have that video of Pence and Trump at a meeting wherein Pence mimics all that Trump does, from the expression on his face to the placement of water bottles. What the hell!! Is it a virus? Is it contagious? Woe upon us if it is!!
     We are still arresting and  charging migrants, asylum seekers but now en masse. We are ramming them thru courts - minus their children of course - in large groups and the stink of this anti democratic behavior is fouling the air.
     We have started a global tariff war, us against the rest, and it is not good. American businesses are suffering already, being denied parts they need, soaring prices for them, tariffs imposed on their products and on top of it all, we have an ignoramus of a man who thinks the War of 1812 was with Canada who trust me, did NOT burn the White House. That was the British, you idiot.
     More hydrilla in the negligence and/or purposeful neglect of our citizens in Puerto Rico, still suffering from last year's hurricane even as we enter a new season. So many deaths. So much tragedy and this fool, this hydrilla sucking the air out of our very lungs just rolls along, tweeting and ruining all. Our diplomats are felled by some weird medical issue, the attacker emboldened by Trump's lunatic behavior and loss of control, and it seems that even the football players have to continue with their downs as this president continues to attack them in a very nasty manner. Freedom to protest, to speak one's mind, an American and indeed human right - and this annoys the human hydrilla greatly. Tough!! There are even state rules that protect this behavior so there! Listen up, Donald!
     Just as the lava is covering over huge areas, filling up a freshwater lake in Hawaii, with the mass of lava a half mile wide and 10 to 15 feet deep, we are being covered with a mass of political hydrilla and it ain't good! So far  the primaries have been good for us. But we need to go strong, be strong thru November and demand of any and all candidates a promise to remember that we are flowers all, not parasites and we need America to be the leader for the good and humane once more and not the dangerous disappointment it has now become. Tear the hydrilla out by its roots. Deny those roots any nourishment. Use the full power of the law to get it gone.