"When in the course of human events...." Nope. Outmoded, it seems. Ah! Got it! "We, the people..." Nope. Outmoded as well.
So then what and where are the pithy statements that once guided our lives and the life of the country? In fact, do we actually have any statements that now reflect upon our past, our ethos, our hopes and dreams? In fact, we do not. For now, it seems that the words of the day all
emanate from the negative and hate filled throat of ...uh huh - you know who!! Horrible. Fantastic. Fake News. Fraud. Murderer, rapists and terrorists. Nationalism. Nativism. This is where it begins today and the question is - where does it end or even, if it ever ends for it seems we are on a long and twisting evil road of hatred, the hatred that kills, that grows and that endlessly needs more fuel to power its flames.
When was the last time anyone heard a beautiful sentiment expressed by the Trump Party? When was the last time anyone heard words of true comfort and concern stated after the horrendous mass shootings we , as a country, have undergone? Where have we seen any bipartisanship lately, even as the country crumbles around our ears and our hearts as well? The answers are all the same - too long ago to even remember and certainly not within the past two years.
The news today? He is firing his Homeland Secretary and why? She apparently is not nasty enough for Trump and not fast enough in carrying out his cruel aspirations towards the immigrants. Uh huh. Oh, and her supporter, Kelly, is himself balancing on a very thin line and there goes another sane - at least as sane a voice as one can be in this administration. He shouts and screams and postures, ranting and raving that all recounts need to be shut down, spouting falsehoods, threatening, tearing even more at the very fabric of the soul of our country. Standard practices of allowing for the late arrival of military and overseas ballots are called into question as the man tries to enforce the already egregious violations of voter rights here in the USA. Fake accusations, madness is what it all is and the man and his supporters must go, must be disempowered as quickly as possible, neuter their nefarious plans for us over the next two years until we can finish throwing them out, clean house and reconstruct our country the way it should be. Or do you wish the country to be as the male seniors of a high school right here in America all gave the Nazi salute and proudly too!!
If we do not do this. If we do not get rid of the spineless and ever more evil and uncaring Republicans, then we will be lost for we will have lost our humanity, our very core of being an American. Look at Lindsey Graham, he of the demented face at the Kavanaugh hearings, he who threatened to break open hell if Sessions were fired and now see how meekly and even actively he supports it. Not that Sessions is a great loss, but he is certainly better than Whitaker as we move ever more down this degenerate road engendered by the Demented One and his amoral and immoral followers.
So we watch in horror as we burn the country around ourselves. We have symbolically and actively begun to destroy the Constitution and its principles, the Declaration of Independence with its world changing statements of the rights of people, and have allowed the physical self of our country to burn as well. Environmental disasters growing ever more frequent and ever more powerful and our history burns along with it.
Here is something I read just yesterday which I believe will shed some light on which signpost to heed, which path to choose and to recognize that WE have the power and the might and the right to choose the destiny of our country, a country that we can take pride in as it works to better the conditions of humanity and to save the planet. Read it and then choose the sign post for you and yours.
"Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
C.S. Lewis
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