RIDDLE ME THIS.....

     Okay, so I am officially a senior citizen, but does that mean that it is okay for me to be confused as to how we have reached this point, here in America and all around the world? Does that mean that we should allow demented senior citizens, ones filled with hate, allow them to rule the world and ruin the world? And yet, that is exactly what we have done, is it not? And folks, the blame for that lies not only with these people but with all the rest of us who have allowed them sanctuary within the heart of our systems.
     So riddle me this, folks. Here is a list of some things and then see if you can answer the question at the end.
1. Lies and lies and lies and more lies.
2. Lies to cover the lies already told.
3. Absurd lies such as that one has hundreds of pictures of Comey and Mueller "hugging and kissing". Truly, that idiot said that.
4. Having the FBI chase its tail as it tries to run down the absurd statements of the Demented One.
5. Rallies for Republicans hand picked to match the hate and lies that the Demented One represents.
6. An administration that regularly descends into physical altercations at meetings in the White House and elsewhere and who spouts violent verbal statements.
7. Administration officials and representatives of the Republican Party who are openly corrupt, bribable, inclined toward nepotism, use taxpayer money as their own private funds, are incompetent and lack knowledge of their areas or are already tainted by their prior lives.
8. Spokespeople who have regularly violated the Hatch Act wherein they are not allowed to plump politically via their jobs in the government.
9. The deregulation and tossing out of all regulations guaranteed to protect our health, the air and land and water of this Earth of ours.
10. Rallies filled with hatred, ugly spoutings of hate on and in public arenas and planes, right wing bigots coming out of the dark where they have hidden these many a year.
11. Use of the government and its various arms to cover for the Demented One, trying to make his oh so not there clothing into textured ones! There are no middle class tax cut plans. There is no booming economy as it keeps losing points every day and as companies now are losing value due to the harmful tariff wars the Demented One has imposed on the world.
12. Supposedly a friend to Israel and 'shows' it by moving embassy to Jerusalem but then promises the Palestinians that  Jerusalem is indeed the capital of two states and then, supports and defends the lies of his buddy, the Saudi prince who has designed the vicious murder of a journalist and then lied through his teeth - and is still lying - about it.
13. And the Demented One supports him! Reluctantly admits there is more to the story but it is okay after all, for they are trade partners, important cogs in agreements. So, it seems if one is important to the Demented One then anything goes. Hmmm
13. Uh, those murderers and rapists and now "Middle Easterners" who are so obviously 'terrorists' - all within the caravan that truly ticks the Demented One off - what if the Middle Easterner types are the handservants, the murderers sent by the Saudi Prince? Hmmm, does that make it okay? Are there really these people in the caravan or is it mostly and mainly just thousands of people looking for a better life, a safer life? A couple of bad apples, even if there, do not spoil the barrel. It was both comical and truly sad watching Pence trip over his own tongue as he tried to justify that ridiculous and dangerous statement of the Demented One.
14. The Demented One threatens to send the standing army against the caravan people. Posse Comitatus anyone? Comparison pictures of death squads of any authoritarian country, past or present?
     I could keep on posting the riddles and the questions but the point is made.
     So riddle me this, all of us out there. What the hell are we doing? Why are we doing this? Why are so many people shouting and ranting with ugly and scary faces - and no costumes on either? Why have we allowed the ugliness beneath to dig its way forward and why do we not recognize this?
     To paraphrase a commentator who wrote about the Tuesday meeting in the Oval Office, Trump "floated conspiracy theories, boasted about his achievements, bent facts, teased future announcements and dipped into a well of racial and cultural prejudice."
    This is the behavior of an autocrat, not a democrat, certainly not America! Not the United States of America! So riddle me this, folks, what is the answer? Where and how has this happened? Will we continue to allow it until we reach the scary point of a country of the USA such as is found in Farenheit 451?
     How to stop this? Stand up and protest. Do not hide in corners. Do not be afraid of this man and his henchmen. Do not allow the abuse of the voting privilege by those who would take it away once in power. Do not let those such as Kemp in Georgia rule the roost even as he bemoans the fact that voters might actually try to exercise their voting rights even as he has done his most evil best to deny them that right.
   So VOTE, people, VOTE!!! Bring the ballot over to the offices of the Supervisor of Elections. Drive a voter to the polls. Make time in  your schedule to vote. There is nothing more important than that. VOTE and take your kids along to see what you are doing. VOTE. Early VOTE. Election Day VOTE. Absentee ballot VOTE. Help people fill it in if they cannot do it themselves. Do whatever you can but VOTE. And then we will not have to riddle us this with awful questions and worse answers. The time has come to choose our future and the future for our kids. It is on us.