CHILDREN BEHAVE!

     Remember the song sung by Tommy James and the Shondells? Well, we truly need a reminder from someone that we must behave. Wish all our parents up there and all those down here would remind us of that, but the trouble is, so many of those who know better right here on earth are the very ones who are breaking every rule of civility, or proper behavior, of courtesy, of human and humane behavior. One would think that certainly we should have learned better by now and perhaps we actually did learn better, but we have junked all that learning by the roadside.
     So Jeff Flake, that hypocrite, who tries to show everyone how bold and brave he is, how righteous he is, but then never follows thru on it other than to vote with Trump every damn time, suddenly wakes up and dies right!! He claims to feel that the incessant chant of "lock her up" is "disturbing". Ya' think!! Where the hell was he all the years of the campaign and the current presidency? Was he deaf, dumb and blind, willfully so? Did he never remember his parents or teachers telling him to behave?
     But what we have now is frightening and scary, immensely so. Trump and fellow idiots refuse to admit that there is climate change, disastrous change, and contents himself to comments that the storm is dangerous! Like the people in its path don't know that?! Or he looks at blowups that anyone can get on the NOA website and he wrinkles his ugly brow and that is supposed to comfort us, even as he rushes off to another toxic rally! Children behave!
     We have grown men returning to the schoolyard, following the current behavior of Trump. He behaves as a child, no, a tiny tot, with a big bully voice, and others follow, exasperated by him, and boast how they would have beaten him up in the yard and the idiot answers with yet another ridiculous statement. Children behave!! Like adults who are wiser than the current ones we now emulate.
     Next child up and please try not to choke on this one. Melania, that poor child, who has a zillion dollars to spend on her clothes, who got her parents permission to live - right here in America in the White House - who travels the world in luxury - claims that she is the most bullied person on earth!! Now that one choked me out. I could give her a list of kids from my life, as a child and  as an educator, who were bullied and none of them, nary a one, could have been compared to the life and times of Melania. And as far as I am concerned - she made her bed. Now sleep in it and stop whining. You look pathetic.
     Trump makes moronic claims stating that basically Clinton asked Russia to hack her campaign, interfere with the campaign so she might lose it!! Huh!! Sorry, this one is just over the top and yet there go the great unwashed out there shouting and chanting their toxic remarks and wearing those damned red hats. Their dangerously childish behavior will take away all possibilities of making America great as she once was and should always be, simply by their behavior, their prejudice, the hatred that emanates from their rallies.
     Children behave! So how do we show that oh so proper behavior? We stick little 4 year old girls on a plane to Guatemala, not telling her father that she is coming - and has been separated since April - and he lives eight hours away from the airport so there she goes again, into another shameful shelter. Does anyone seriously expect this child and the thousands of others maltreated in our country to grow up normal? Does anyone expect them to grow up with anything other than negative feelings towards the country that treated them so shamefully? There are consequences to dangerous childlike behavior when done by adults.
     I am so much and so often in despair at the current situation and the close future. What will be? What will be for the billions on this earth as food and water are scarce, as land is overrun by the ocean, as we lose even more of the humane traits of humanity? Can we stop the negative progression towards doomsday, even now? I look at my grandchildren and so desperately hope the answer is a positive one but we need to change NOW. We need to grow up. And we need to VOTE!!! For the right people. VOTE. It is our only chance.