THEATER OF THE ABSURD

     We are living in a play, an absurd one which has little to recommend it or to try to understand it. It is replete with nastiness and nonsense and the literary analyst has no idea where to start or how to refute or deal with the absurdities that are added in every day. What is even more frightening is that there are people who buy into these absurdities even as they are wrecking their lives.
     Today we have the Kingdom of Genitalia. Suddenly the man who knows nothing, who boasts about how little he knows and how he can still fool and befuddle people, the man of no science, this very same man has decided that people are tied to their fates as determined by the genitalia of their birth. No such thing as transgender people. Nope, by crest or cleft it seems we are ruled. That is what tells us who and what we are and what we can achieve. Think not that this idiocy stops here. For example, what of the baby born with hermaphrodite genitalia or the one born with unclear definition, or the one with swollen genitals that are read wrong, incorrect. What if the doctors choose incorrectly - so then what when the girl realizes he is a boy or vice versa. And where does the rule of genitalia stop. Are we limited then in choice of careers, in plans and dreams, in ability to move through society? Are we then to return to a repressive society, one along the lines of the Hand Maid's tale or even of fundamentalists of all times and religions demand?
     And now Act II of this play. Immigrants, who now number 5,000 in a display of determination to reach the country of their dreams, of refuge, to flee violence, to give children a future other than being pressed into gangs. The idiot with his own alleged genitalia issues stands there and threatens and screams. He threatens Mexico that it had better do his bidding. He screams of deep state conspiracies, faults the Democrats and George Soros who has received an explosive device thanks to Trump's mouth. He screeches that he has alerted the borders and made plans but no one seems to have been told of these plans. He, the man who supposedly wishes to uphold the Constitution is now threatening an important provision - posse comitatus. The standing army is NOT allowed to operate within the country's borders so they cannot be called upon to shoot up those kids, those babes, those men and women, those teens. And G-d forbid that we have soldiers, be they of the National Guard or the regular Armed Forces or of Border Enforcement, G-d forbid we have people willing to do that. Shall they be rounded up, stripped naked and forced to stand by the sides of a ditch or canyon? Convenient, that would be in this Theater of the Absurd, the dangerous absurd.
     We are being ruled, yes, ruled, by a sick puppy of a third grader in a grownup's body, only this one never grew up in any important way. This puppy has turned into a junkyard dog, cunning, nasty and ignorant of the partnerships that can be formed with people. So perhaps we are now living through our own version of Animal Farm with all its nastiness and injustice and murder! More Theater of the Absurd - only how absurd is it really when we see all this in action? How absurd is it when we hear of an administration where the members of it turn rabid, fight each other and not only with their mouths, or frighten sane people with their faces of pure cruelty and venom such as was seen with Graham and Grassley at the hearings.
     This junkyard dog is standing there baying that if he wins the House again it is because of him and him alone. If he loses it, then it is not his fault he says. He lies and lies about his lies. He has forced so many thinking and knowledgeable people to speak as I do - that should he win, should his ballless and spineless Republicans return to a majority, then we can all say goodbye to America. Read Paul Krugman. Read Gail Collins. Read Maureen Dowd. Read Charles Blow. Read any of the many columnists who are shouting this to the world, to the voters out there.
    People - you must get out there and vote. Vote to overcome those base Republicans  -  in every which way. Vote to insure an America such as we know it and such that we can improve and bring  back to the proper highways. Do not assume another will vote for you. YOU need to vote and vote for the Democrats. Vote for the women. Vote for those who refuse to accept a Theater of the Absurd. Your future is at stake.