Well, we all welcomed in the New Year in various ways, but I daresay that most of us wished for a better year, a year with peace, with freedom, with humanity, and if not love, then with respect for one another. And by the way, I wish all my reader's a Happy New Year, and the same for Novy God, a new year celebration that stems from Russia - so a shoutout to my Russian readers.
But what are we truly expecting from the upcoming year. I, for one, am desperately hoping for advancements for the treatment of Parkinson's. Selfish? Perhaps, but it is what it is. I hope for a restored balance to America, to a return to our ideals and heal the wounds that have scarred us so badly, hopefully, not beyond the point of no return, though I do have doubts on that when the Demented One continues to rant and rave and sees out the old and the new with his psychotic litany of tweets, replete with lies and contradictions, along with his typical sprinkling of blowhard nonsense. G-d help us all!
So that is the old, but what could be the new in this area? Well, perhaps it is the increasing number of Republican figures who are being open about the disaster that masquerades as an administration. On the other hand, we have those like Graham who have fallen under the spell or fear or whatever of the Demented One and who have literally, it appears, sold their souls to the devil! A hefty G-d help us again.
What I would love to see new this year of 2019 is a return to sanity, a return to the recognition of facts as they are and not as we wish them to be. No, Pelosi does not live in that house and no, Obama does not have a ten foot wall around his house. Simple facts, yet the Demented One and his supporters dare to brazenly lie, and why not, as the falsehoods rebounded through the Net with deluded fools believing what was so easily disproven by FACT. But facts do not matter in the bizarre world of Trump and minions. So new, we need a return to facts, to truth, to sanity.
I pray for a return to sanity and for leaving the schoolyard behind. Go head to head with any candidate, but do it in an adult manner, not spitting out infantile statements and lies. Be aware of the damage we have done to our relations with the world at large and how our "new" friends such as North Korea, Russia, Turkey, etc. have turned on us, taking hostages or thundering threats of doom and new capability of missiles. Let us recognize who should be our BFFs and whom we need to consign to the corner.
A pleasurable year would start out with a steady government, not one of revolving doors and not one staffed with incompetent and greedy corrupt individuals, reeking of the swamp. it would mean that Trump finally recognized that he needs to stand up as a man, take responsibility for his errors, pay the piper for his misdeeds, and allow the country to move on. The abyss in the country right now is just about down to the core at its heart and we need to work swiftly to close the wound promptly. The Supreme Court needs to recognize that it is impartial and must remain so, not cave to the pressures of Trump, to his threats, to his ridiculous answer of executive privilege every time a question and proof presents itself. And the Senate must remember that before being Republicans of today's Party, they once were Americans first and foremost and stood up as Americans and did what must be done and this Demented One must be gone, convicted, out.
Government employees are undergoing a new version of slavery, working without pay, being threatened by Trump, and who knows what awaits us down this road? We need to make a u turn and get the hell off of it.
Last night there was a wonderful version of Imagine, Lennon's song, and Madonna sang at Stonewall, Falling in Love from Presley and Like a Prayer and she was dynamite. So were her words.
“If we truly took the time to get to know one another we would find that we all bleed the same color and we all need to love and be loved,” she concluded. “Let’s remember who and what we are fighting for — ourselves, for each other, but truly and most importantly, what are we fighting for?” she asked rhetorically. “Let’s take a minute to reflect on how we can bring more love and peace into 2019, let’s look at how we can bring random acts of kindness. Maybe we can find an opening to bring the light in. Are you ready to do that?”
We are so ready, are we not? As we must be.
Take your first steps of the year and every step that follows very carefully, and tread upon the roads and byways that bring us back to a future for us and for all of humankind.
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