Friday, June 8, 2018

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

     Reality now is a game wherein we ignore reality, look away from the details of life, and instead concentrate on only certain aspects. We have left politics to the extremes of the spectrum and the voices of sanity and reason are being drowned out. We have an illiterate President, unable to read nor keep facts straight in his head or limited brain, a First family which is in itself living in  a fractured world, and the largest set of corrupt, selfish, incompetent, venial set of administrators ever! Other than that everything's AOK, right?
     Nope. It is not. I truly cannot imagine how much longer we can exist in this state of mind and reality. When a commission on school violence purposely says no mention of guns, then here we go again! When a government defends its practice of separating children from parents, little ones too, then what have we become? When the agencies of justice are suborned by the president in his endless chase after his 'enemies' - otherwise known as people doing their jobs - then what have we become? When we pass a horrendous tax cut which provides nicely for the uber wealthy and shafts the middle class, why are we now cutting $15 billion dollars from the spending budget, most of it on the backs of children and health, of social nets for the needy, and allowing bad stuff to go on, all in the name of keeping the rich happy.
     When the government prosecutes the right stuff and defends the bad stuff, there is serious wrongdoing here. When the government allows people to die in their custody, agonizing deaths from things such as bacterial meningitis because there is none or little medical care or concern for these 'terrible' migrants, what have we become? When we alienate every professional and experienced person in the government, to the extent that there has been the equivalent of a massive walkout, then what are we doing?
     When every nutjob lawyer, every has been, signs on to the law staff of Trump, what the hell!! Giuliani claims to speak for all, including Melania, who, incidentally, denies it all. When the rats are now scrambling for safety and deals, watch all the filth rise to the surface and then we need to hang our heads in shame that we allowed this to happen.
     When we have a split personality for a leader then wonder what the hey!!! Notice his tweets of late? We still have the poor sentence structure, the one syllable words, the repeated use of the same terms, the misuse of capitals, the mixed up structure and content and then suddenly we are getting erudite tweets with compound complex sentences, words of two or three syllables and we are expected to believe the same person wrote all of these? Uh - uh. Can't sell that bridge to me!
     When we have a governmental press on the press, trying to muzzle them, threatening to jail them, calling them names, demanding their deportation even, well, what is that all about?
     When we have our allies threatening to leave us out of a major statement, and rightfully so, actually as we are definitely schizoid right now as a country, with a whacked out Trump at the head. When all this happens, what have we become?
     This picture, this oh so wrong picture, tells us that we cannot continue on this path forever, not even for much longer. I believe we are at our most dangerous and life threatening point in the history of our country save the Revolution. Our very existence is being threatened, our life blood of human and civil rights is being choked off. A plan of meritocracy in civil service has been shattered. Our picture for the year is skewed and distorted.
     What is wrong with this picture? So, so much.
     

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