WAR DECLARED!!

         No, not against North Korea or Iran. Not today, in any case and in fact, Trump appears to just love that chubby little dude! Can't always understand fixations, can one?
       What Trump and his minions have done is declare war on all that is decent, on all that is - or was - America. All that she stood for and hoped to gift to the world, to her own citizens. The opening line of the poem by John Keats says it all about America in her true glory. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever". Once we were that thing of beauty, a country that moved forward, making mistakes, doing wrong at times, but always willing to go forward, to change, to improve. That is, until now, when war has been declared by the current administration and its leader, so help us, a leader who is now laughed at by the leaders of the world. America's beauty dims once again because of this man.
     We, officially, have declared a war on our enemies. Nope, not the traditional ones, but on allies and friends. But worse than that is that we have declared war, open warfare, against those who are most vulnerable. We have declared war on children, taking money from education funds, from cancer research and using it to build more prisons - and yes, they are prisons - for children. We take the child who has aged out of these child prisons and put them in handcuffs and take them off to real prisons, right along with the felons. Their crime? Being separated from their parents or being unaccompanied minors as they crossed the border in search of a better, safer life. The American Dream. 
     Yes, those dangerous children! Our security rattles in fear from and of them! And to that we add war on women. The ugliness of past and present attitudes of men in power towards and with women has come to the surface and the men do not like it. When it hits their nominee, we hear excuses of boys will be boys and just excuse it, if he did it and if he did, he was drunk, so there ya' go! Or the girl was drunk or should not have been there, so there ya' go again - just blame the victim. Works all the time!!
     Just insult the accusers, doubt them openly and forcefully and do not be afraid to voice your thoughts. One Senator on the Committee openly states that he just "knows" that the accuser is wrong and Kavanaugh is innocent. He just knows it. So there ya' go. The tactics of war.
     And we have the disadvantage of having four Mormon males on the Committee. The  Mormon Women for Ethical Government have asked these four to postpone the hearings and investigate but that is like trying to keep a snowman in one piece in the depths of hell. The Mormon religion has always had a problematic attitude towards women, treating them as chattel, as breeders, as tools to gain government money and even among today's Mormons, women are strictly limited and even their afterlife depends on the husband! Boo on that! And boo to any religion holder that uses it to perpetuate violence and discrimination.
     We have declared war on immigrants, on the poor, on the needy, on the ill. Now the Republicans say they are fighting for health care for the chronically ill, for previously disclosed conditions!! What a crock!! They were the ones who endangered it with their insane war against Affordable Care. Own it. Own what you have done, Republicans. Own it!
     We, as a a country, have allowed our government to declare war on truth, on decency, on justice. We have dredged up old canards and polished them up but filth and dirt remain filth and dirt. The Republican members of the Committee openly state how they doubt the accuser and in any case, he did it when he was 17 so there! Really? So bad behavior is excused for age? Really bad behavior? I am not saying he should be locked up at this point, but at the very least he should be open and honest as was Cory Booker, apologize and make his amends via proper actions, not continue his anti women practices. His behavior in high school and college indicate a major flaw in his character and certainly it does not behoove us to appoint a man of this caliber to a life time appointment where for the next 40 years he can make life miserable for all of us.
     We, our government, has declared war on all that is decent and right in our country. We have abdicated our position as leader and  role model to the world. We have pushed a false 'patriotism', for hatred and prejudice are not patriotism but rather just hatred and prejudice, the nastiness of the "America First' movement which seeks to disguise its awfulness with a fake curtain. But we need to look behind the curtain and see that the Wizard here is a farce, a dangerous impostor, and must be exposed to the world as such and not as the true representative of America, the thing of beauty.
     Keep in mind the words of another poet, Yeats, and his famous words.
     "Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
     The world, and indeed, America, has had times of anarchy before, times of bloodshed, times of Country Firsters. We have seen the results and if one needs a reminder of the level to which the world can fall, read any book about civil wars, world wars and for a consequence try reading a powerful book called The Stone Crusher,  a story of love and friendship, of survival in the flames of hell. Then understand, then know, the anarchy that can be set loose upon the world when war is declared on the wrong things. When we allow it to be so.
     Will our center hold? Answer that. Please. And be truthful, not wishful. And then do what must be done - and get out there and vote, send letters, make demands. Else understand what and why that anarchy is loosed upon the world.