Perhaps because of certain life events and the general social climate and environmental disasters of our time, things seem to have other meanings for me. Good? Bad? No clue, just that these thoughts come to the fore and so I think and muse.
The phantom. Real or imagined? Threatening figure or pathetic one, needing love which he was forever denied? Symbolic of the ills of our society, of the dilution of the good, or simply just one misshapen person whose methods were dramatic, to say the least.
Today, we have many phantoms in our lives. Nothing seems to be what it appears to be. The opera house of Paris then has transformed into the grand opera of the world today. Is there a monster among us, or perhaps more than one, or is there a man behind the monster, or perhaps the monster is the true face? Now who could that possibly be? Hmmmm. Think about it.
But seriously, there have been earthshaking changes to the world in recent years. Our climate has rolled downhill in ever increasing speed and the size of it grows, just as the snowball does in its downhill journey. But we are throwing or rolling that snowball at ourselves and there is no snow fort to climb into. We have abused the earth so, the atmosphere so, that we are shortly going to , as the show points out, the point of no return. And yet, just as there are deniers of that reality in the show, there are deniers here, most prominently the idiot illegitimate President we now have and his selfish and ignorant and corrupt Cabinet. So who and where is the monster - or the monsters? Answer that yourself.
The Phantom pleads for attention, for love, even as he admits he cannot truly love in so many ways. He is different, overwhelmingly so. And so is our chief Phantom, ours who cannot show love either, uses tortured excuses for it, pathetic attempts to find it, any which way he can, and ends up contaminating all he touches.
But we have no beautiful Christine to help us counter the Phantom and his nefarious plans for all those whom he claims to have opposed him, have made his life a living misery, parked in the cold and damp netherworld of the opera house. Our supposed possible Christine Daae is instead a robotic woman of little outward emotion. I would rather not go to her inner emotions for I cannot fathom her behavior and how she got into this situation. Perhaps she fell under the spell of our own Phantom as did Christine, but there appears to be no rescuer here along the line of the Comte, who loves Christine so.
So what do we do with our Phantom? Perhaps we should send the troops after him in the form of legal charges against him. Perhaps he should be impeached. Perhaps we will have a better answer after the midterms when hopefully there will be a Democratic House. Perhaps we should somehow ignore him, but how can that be done when he is in such a powerful position.
His interview last night on 60 Minutes was horrifying. A paranoid, overwhelmed man of little talent, little trust, and poor judgement, to say the least, was fully presented to the world. He is a man who finds much to admire in Kim, the horrific dictator and killer at the head of North Korea. He mistrusts all else, including his own handpicked people! He is so out of touch with reality that he hangs a picture of himself drinking with ten Republican Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln who is probably looking down and wondering how the hell his Republican party turned into this? Where did all the hate come from? Why do they persist in welcoming right wing extremists, haters , into their hearth as they did in The Republican Club invitation to a hater in NY. Our Phantom is no longer hidden, but exposed to us all and with it come the ills of his twisted mind.
There is no one to croon to him that he is loved. There is no one who will sacrifice himself to save the world. There is no one who can defeat this Phantom - unless, unless, we all go out and
VOTE!!!! This man, this Trump and his cohorts are no friends to the opera of life here in this country. They are instead monsters of the netherworld, phantoms who would repress free speech, as did Senator Perdue who grabbed a phone from a Georgia Tech student who dared to ask a question which challenged him as to how and why he could support Kemp who openly and abusively has taken voters off the roll and need I tell you the color of those purged voters? So he grabbed the phone, tried to stop the recording and then stomped away.
They are the monsters, the phantoms who terrorize 13,000 children as they make millions off their detention. They are the phantoms, not of the mind, and not of the opera, but of the world, of our country, who would destroy it, who would destroy the rights of women over their own bodies - and when did they ever try to control a man's body? They would like to roll us all into a dystopian world which could only survive in a damp and unhealthy netherworld.
You do not like these images, these possibilities? Then wake up and realize, be you Democrat or registered Republican, no one is immune to the repressions that will follow if this man and his minions are allowed to remain in power. No one will be exempt, but here is a thought. Perhaps it will not be for a long time as they are destroying the world, the physical world, right around us, bringing it down around our very ears, so hey, silver lining?! Seriously, and very seriously, get out there and VOTE. VOTE for the right people, for the caring people, not the billionaires who pay no taxes and even get a refund even as we little people keep paying.
Vote for humanity, for kindness, for justice, for hope, for goodness. for the true realization of what is important, what is needed and the right path to get there. VOTE!!!!!!!!
And if you need a reminder of the damage they have inflicted upon the world, upon our country, just go check out the people of the Panhandle, of Mexico Beach, of Panama City, of the Carolinas, who are desperate for help, for water and food, for a roof, for a working toilet!! And then read about the newest forest fire of California. We cannot deny reality forever. It will always be right there to bite us in the rear, and like Venom of the movies, bite off our heads, those nonthinking heads that helped allow this to happen. VOTE, people, VOTE. For the sake of us all.
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