RISE UP

     What is this? Am I encouraging rebellion in these here United States? Am I encouraging civil disobedience? Or am I talking of another rising, one which scares the dickens out of me.
     But full disclosure first. Yes, I believe that Civil Disobedience is a marvelous tool to making sure that the words get heard in the right quarters. It calls attention to the issues under discussion and forces the deadheads out there in DC to actually pay some attention to the people.
     However, this is not the rise up I am talking about. It is the rise up sung by the raspy and powerful tones of Audra Day. It is the rise up one feels when listening to Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit. It is the rise up one feels when reading an article re the murdered Pittsburgh Jews in their synagogue and the chants of the hateful. It is the rise up when one reads that 20% of Europeans say Jews have "too much influence in the world" and any day now I expect to hear the claims of blood libel again! It is the rise up one feels when reading of an absolute bigot, one with murderous and bloody tastes who thinks being in the first row of a lynching is that absolute!! And will probably be the Senator from Mississippi after an election. For shame!! Or of yet another racist being appointed a federal judge by the chief racist himself, Trump and the Senators of the Republican Party not rising up but rather selling their souls once again, if another bill is past, then they will vote these incompetent, corrupted, racist know nothing judges into office. For a lifetime!! Rise up, folks. Rise up!
     So what is to rise up from the broken down America today? Will it be the country who rises to shut its borders, who deny asylum without hearings, that gasses children in diapers and desperate people seeking refuge - our ethos from day one!! Will it be the country that allows the Old South to rise up, standing on the corpse of the true America or will it be the people who rise up and shut this down in its tracks.
     The lies that sink us ever further and deeper into the muck of yesterday's lies and errors, the blatant denial of his own government's finding on the environment and the disaster that is well upon us, the defiance in the face of all logic and truth about the murderous Prince of Saudi Arabia, the everyday lies, the corrupt and wishful despotic family, the fawners, the corruption - will this rise up or will we rise up and meet the challenge.
     So for the symbolism of red - RED? trees as Christmas decorations in the White House, for the so called anti cyber bullying by the wife of the biggest cyber bully ever, by the hypocritical BeBest program and for the whole damned shebang - rise up, folks. Demand justice, the right, knowledgeable and non partisan judges, hope for the future, a return to the founding ethos of our country, a return to the traditions of America. In other words, BE AMERICANS. Be the best, the true best, not the made up best, the forked tongue best. BE AMERICAN.














 matzoh!