ON THE EDGE

      We are on the edge, hanging by our fingertips from the ledge. The term 'hang in there' does not really serve here, for just hanging leads to more danger. So does willful blindness to a situation fraught with danger.
     The megalomaniacal behavior of Trump gets worse every day - no, let me correct that - hour by hour. Totally incapable of controlling himself, of thinking a rational thought, we are being led by this mentally disabled man right into a deep abyss, cornered in a canyon of all our making. Where do we go from here? Not a clue, certainly none that will give us hope of finding a way out.
     Yesterday he boasts that we would be in the "middle of a big fat war' with North Korea if not for him. This at the very moment when that very same country is warning us about their plans. China is being warned by their leader to prepare for war. Russia, the land of Trump's BFF is boasting about new missiles and taking American hostages to exchange for Russian criminals that are held here.
    The government is split, majorly so and now this dangerous man is threatening to really turn into the dictator he so wishes to be. The fake businessman, the one who hid his bankruptcies, who thinks his TV role is his presidential role - G-d help us - this very same demented person in the throes of deepening dementia now crows that he will get his damned wall via declaring a 'national emergency' and go it alone, finding sources elsewhere, most likely the military slush fund.
     So now what? A military coup, for I cannot see the services sitting still for this. A domestic revolt as the man talks crocodile tears that he feels with and for the employees now going without paychecks, left to swing in the wind as they hang off that ledge? A civil war with the fighting between groups of formerly united Americans and now split right down the middle as the greatest experiment in government in humankind's history goes down the toilet?
     The man is demented. Republicans who privately admit this are too cowardly to do so in public and why? Because they are AFRAID of him! This is not the way it is supposed to work. Do they think he will send out ninjas against them? What? Will it be physical punishment for disloyalty? What is going on? Since when has it been anathema for Americans, for our representatives, to differ in opinions. Why has bipartisanship grown into the self eating phenomenon it now is?
     Hanging off the ledge folks, hanging with now only nine fingers holding . The time has come for people to stand up and be brave and demand our country back again from those who would hijack it and rape our rights. Strong words, yes, but the time has come for strong people, never mind the name calling or the foul mouths, Now is the time for words that demand action, that cause action, that puts hair back on the chest and steel back in the moral spines, never mind a "steel" wall  or any wall that this man is obsessed with beyond all points of sanity. We all must demand that our representatives stand up for the right, the honorable, the necessary. Never mind impeachment. Just Article 25 the man and let us get started on bringing back the country, not in his filthy plans for it, but in the manner that we are supposed to be, a country of different people with different opinions who will work together to better the country and the world.
     Folks. seven fingers now. Time is running out. Read the columns. Check the situations. Think and think hard and bite the bullet as you accept the reality of it all. Before we get to six fingers and beyond. Time's a fleetin' and history's awaitin'. And fingers have only so much strength, especially as the concrete of the ledge crumbles.