DRIP DRIP DRIP

     I wonder how many of us get that slimy feeling, feel the drip of filthy oil, and how many just either ignore or actually crave it. Every time I read that Trump has said or done something 'for his base', the feeling of nausea and repulsion rises again. Why do we pander to a group of people who refuse to recognize the truth of the nastiness and lies that abound within the Trump world or worse, who recognize it and think the man is putting one over on the enemy, all the while not recognizing that his sliminess is dripping away on them, eroding their rights, squeezing their benefits, and putting them and their families at risk.They cheer on his denial of the truth, be it the environment and climate to political and civil wrongdoings.  Drip. Drip.
     $1.3 million to his businesses from the campaign funds and this same thing has continued thru today as the government keeps paying the Trump golf clubs every damn time that man goes to one or the other. His hotel in Washingotn reaps the benefit of toads, staying there hoping to pander enough to get his agreements on whatever catastrophic wish they have.
     In the meanwhile, even as his base pushes for more wasting of time on Clinton's emails, they need to realize that goose and gander works here. At least hers was a private server! This idiot Jared and his most annoying wife, Ivanka, used their private email to send correspondence through on official governmental business, and Jared, why he even used his WhatsApp to correspond with foreign officials! So hey, lock them up? And the 'patriarch' of the clan as well? Such a sweet thought! Ahh, the power of dreams.
     In the meanwhile we have horrendous flooding in Nebraska and now flooding is expected in 25 states during the spring season. 25 states!! But nope, no climate issues here! All this and we add the cherry on top by locking up DACA kids who have lived here for all but a few days or months or years, brought here by their parents hoping for a future for them, went to college, worked jobs, paid taxes, became Americans! Married Amerians not from DACA, and are even on the way towards citizenship, but hey, hey, there goes ICE, 'protecting' us from that dangerous young flight attendant. What a damn tragedy here, locking someone up in one of those terrible privatized detention centers, otherwise known as prisons! Separating her from her husband, killing the dream for no reason at all. And shame at Mesa Airline for putting her in this situation. They know the political climate these days They know the viciousness of Border patrol and ICE. They know of the privatized lock up business. And shame on us that this country is still doingthis! And stop saving up migrants in detention until they can be released in a torrential people flood, overwhelming the aid centers, all so it can be 'pointed out' how many there are and how dangerous it is. Shame on you!!
     But not to worry, for hope is on the horizon. Texas legalized lemonade stands for children! Can you believe this? What have we done to childhood what with all the grinches around! Lemonade stands, selling one's little toys on the steps or lawn. Selling water on hot days. Kids' enterprises and part and parcel of childhood and there has to be a law about this?!
     But what else can we expect other than the drip, drip of this ugliness. The president keeps trolling on a dead hero, whining that he has not received proper 'thanks' (which by the way he did) and big deal. It was not about him! Not everything is about him! And the rest of the government goes down this crazy path to what? Aha! Here we go! Doing training for an active shooter situation, teachers were actually shot in the back with forcefully expelled plastic pellets,up close and personal! What? Do they think the teachers need to be shot, to receive pain in order for them to understand what they and their students face in  such a situation?! What the hell is the matter with us that we allow people who sanction this to rise to the top, to positions which enable them to do such creepy things? And G-d forbid we actually ban assault weapons!
     Drip and drip and drip. Wearing away at our society. Wearing away, eroding our humanistic behavior. Drip, drip on our rights and on honesty in government. Drip and drip and drip until we are inured to this sound and consequences. Or are we?
     I have hope tht there are still enough of us to regain the truth, to regain our country, to take pride again in our country, to serve as an example to the world, to welcome those seeking havens of safety and dreams, just as we have mostly done. Shame on us for returning to the eras of anti immigration. Who the hell were our parents or grandparents or further down the line? Now we are here so now we shutthe dor?
    Drip. Drip. Drp. We need to stop that drip. We need to fix that leaky faucet of society. We need to see clean water, decency, truth, justice once more and hey, if some superhero wants to show up and save the day, well, welcome!! But even some clean old rags will do, that and elbow grease, anything to stop this drip. This slimy drip. This nauseating drip. This so unAmerican drip.