THERE ARE NO WORDS....

          …..and yet there must be, for how else are we to fix the situation - if indeed it can be fixed. We are in a dangerous situation, one more fraught with existential threat to our country than has ever been before. Yes, we have been eye to eye or missile to missile with Russia over Cuba, at odds with North Korea, at war with Vietnam and almost tore the country apart there, but at no time before this have we ever had a man sitting in the Oval Office, purportedly the leader of the nation, charged with its defense, and who categorically does exactly the opposite and puts our very existence in peril.
     Just trying to get the words out that would define the great danger for us brings frustration to my most inner being. How to transfer that feeling to others? How to get them to understand the situation? How to break the dangerous hold that Trump still holds over his "base", the very people for whom he is most dangerous? Instead of me filling the blank areas of the screen, here are a few bits from other people.
     "No other President in decades publicly threatened retribution against a television network..."
     "constitute a threat to the safety of my family" (Alec Baldwin asking upon being threatened with retribution by Trump)
     "...if the President cannot defend this country then he cannot fulfill his constitutional oath of office"   Exactly, for if he cannot, and indeed is threatening its safety, then what is the corollary conclusion?
     "And the idea is, if the president committed obstruction of justice, fired the director of the of the FBI to negatively impact or to shut down our investigation of Russia's malign activity and possibly in support of his campaign, as a counterintelligence investigator you have to ask yourself, "Why would a president of the United States do that?" McCabe said.
     "In the great state of Texas, we care about a little thing called private property, and there's going to be over 1,000 ranchers and farmers potentially impacted if the government comes in and takes their land," Hurd said on "Face the Nation" Sunday.
        A forced nomination by Japan for Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace prize. My vomit runneth over.
     Massive collusion of various parts and departments of the government, our government, to set up traps for kids looking for a university education so they can build their lives, be a part of the American dream. What they should have been doing instead is going after the developer and cheat and criminal who orchestrated his own false university. Never a university, just a money drain on desperate and trusting people and guess who benefitted?
     The same horrific multiple shootings but gun control? Never, it seems. Building of better health care, especially for mental illness? Never. Humane treatment for those seeking asylum in our country, just as all our ancestors did? Never, it seems, not anymore.
 Truth? An endangered idea and value in this administration.
     A voice of a bereaved mother -

"Eleven years have gone by and it keeps happening, and it's so disheartening and so sad,"

     And the hope and prayer, the expression of a deep need for this country and its people? 

     "To see what is happening to our great nation is disturbing to all of us as Americans. We cry out to you, Lord and we beseech your grace and mercy upon us all. Wipe away the fear that grips our hearts. Heal the tension and division that has emerged among us, Lord, and bring us together in love."

     Or at least some form of sanity. And we all know where that must begin.