Remember Mikie, the little guinea pig and scapegoat of his older brothers? He had to try everything new first and had to take the blame for all disasters. Convenient to have one of those around, but the truth is that we must take the blame for things gone wrong and take the first steps into new endeavors or back onto a proper path. There is no one but ourselves and we understand this from this verse. "If I am not for myself, then who will be, but if I am for myself only then what am I?"
We need to interweave that verse, those sentiments and guidelines into our lives. We have lost the interconnections between us, between the citizens and residents of America and confined ourselves to tribal areas with Do Not Enter signs prominently posted.
We have lost honesty. Our own presumed President is a liar, a denier of truths, a denier of all that is obvious and he sends us cheerfully to perdition as the environment collapses in front of our eyes as he calls it a lie. He denies all that he wants to, all the inconvenient truths and is desperately paddling now in all directions as he seeks to deny the truths about himself and his actions from being revealed out in the open.
Manafort's lawyers have been trying to sit at two tables at the same time. Trump's lawyers are desperate to stop any face to face questioning of Trump, the Demented One, for they know his insanity, his arrogance, his incompetence, his corruption will be easily revealed, uncovered in so many ways.
We have fallen deep into the chasm of inhumanity. We use force on children in diapers. We use force on incarcerated migrants asking for asylums, and today we find out that a transgender woman who died in captivity did not only not get medical treatment, but indeed, was beaten to death as an independent autopsy proved. Why independent? Because the apparatus of the government can no longer be trusted due to its corruption, to its growing immorality. And, like it or not, we attacked Mexico by shooting gas grenades into their country, right over the border. Hmm, so what would be now if they reciprocate? What the hell are we doing?
We have power plays in the White House as Kushner tries to increase his power and influence and for what purpose? To help get more of his loans forgiven or laid off? To increase his real estate holdings? To sell Ivanka's dying fashion lines? Certainly we do not need a crazed man and his son in law wreaking dual and combined havoc upon us. This is not a dynasty nor a line of royalty. This is a line of power hungry individuals who have sold their souls and will sell all of our souls in their search for permanent power.
We are electing and appointing backwards thinking individuals to positions of power, be it the Senate or the courts. We are setting up a dangerous future and remember, again, and always, that hatred meets no boundaries for it crosses over them and will engulf all in its path. All of us included, and that means me and you and yours. No escape. No trust and no humanity.
No, Mikie did not do it. We did. And trying to blame others, trying to turn a blind eye so often that our heads and brains are now twisted, is not the answer either. Let us look in the mirror, folks, and look deeply into it, and perhaps we can find the grains of honesty, the grains of humanity, the grains of being a true American and citizen of the world, all the grains that are washing out in the floods of hate and bigotry and nastiness. Do not depend on Mikie. He has had it! He wants no more part in this.
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