SAME OLD, SAME OLD

      Are you like me, wondering when this same old garbage is going to go out with the tide and a freshly washed strip of sand be revealed underneath? I am so tired of the lies and poppycock that comes out of that man's mouth and the twists and turns he has caused in our civic conscious.
     He has never lost the opportunity to mess up. Every time he speaks, he inserts two feet and then bites down, with his sentences full of bombast, exaggerations, pure lies, and poison darts. What we got from this SOTU was only more of the same alongside his piggish like behavior in his snubbing of Pelosi and in taking credit when there was a celebration on the floor because of the larger numbers of women there. Idiot!!! No thanks to him, and yet he thinks that all is about him, stems from him, and belongs to him.
     It seems as if we are now in a mode of crude behavior, cannot talk, will not listen, and how many times have we heard, even said, that we cannot talk politics with friends or family. The role of discourse in society seems to have been lost, abandoned along the way and that is not a positive move at all.
     In a discussion about extending and toughening background checks when one wishes to buy a gun, there was deep rancor between a Republican Congressman, Matt Goetz and the father of a son killed in Parkland. All this Congressman seemed to feel he had to say was that nothing will help unless we build a wall on the southern border. Excuse me!! This was not an illegal immigrant who did the killing, nor was it cowardly immigrants who failed to do their duty as first responders, and even if there had been an illegal immigrant involved, do we tar all with the same brush. I thought we had long ago learned that one bad apple or two does not a whole ruined crop make! Nor did it give this politician the right to speak so nastily to the grieving father.
     Same old, same old, will mean we make no forward progress, and in fact, will probably regress. How many more extended invitations will be spurned, how many more times will Trump bluster and threaten and then refuse to sign a bill. And for what? So he can continue in office, continue to make sure that we, the taxpayers , pay more of our taxes into his hotels!?
     How many more times are we going to pick up a paper and read of more safety regulations undone, of more holes cut into the social safety net, of the horrendously overpriced drugs and medication, and of the corruption, the nasty stench of the current administration? For how much longer do we accept this same old garbage? When do we start thinking out of the box for better ideas, proposals and solutions? When do we regain our enthusiasm for our country and its values? When do we stop appointing people, electing people, who  look upon office as a way in which to enrich themselves?
     If we correct the wrongs of the past wo years we will have gone a long way in regaining the respect of the nations of the world. We will have a healthier constituency. The same old will be swept out to sea and a new current will bring in the freshness, that tang of salty air and water, the joy and immensity of the oceans. Then we can live again. Then we can hope again. We so desperately need that hope. We need the new, not the retreads all worn out, useless and even dangerous. 
     None of this will happen unless we stick to the points necessary, stand up to the Demented One, encourage his Party members to remember their own souls, the ones which maybe held ideals n their younger days. Let us rejoice in a new and breathtaking combination of the best of the old and the best of the new, and leave hatred out the door. It does not belong here.