"Time is a wheel, vast and indifferent, and when time rolls on and men forget, we face the risk of circling back. We slouch yawning to a new horizon and find ourselves gazing at old hatreds seeded and watered by forgetfulness and flowering into new wars. New massacres. New monsters.... Let this wheel stop. Let us not forget this time. Let us remember."
So writes a columnist in The Huntress, a book I highly recommend. It was written about an earlier era, but how relevant it is to today's times and the message we need to hear. And how often do we ignore this message and find ourselves, oh so much to our surprise, caught in an eddy, a deathly eddy, all of our own making, a result of our willful blindness and a willingness to always find a target for our problems rather than a cure for them.
The year 2008 was a hard one, as the Great Recession hit hard. Jobs and confidence lost, people searched for answers, quick fixes - of which There were none. They ignored the fact that steps were taken to ease the situation and they began to work, but the harm was done, for the hatemongers found their opportunity and went to work with a deep and pervading fervor. And so our society lost its way, until it found a path through the maze that ended with Trump.
This is a man with no qualifications to be anything other than a man sticking a pointy end of a stick into trash on the highway as a consequence of his misdeeds. This is a man with no humanity, a man with a poisonously malignant view of life and humanity. The only ones who matter are himself and anyone who serves him, and if not, go to hell or stick yourself under the bus to save time.
So why is he in the Oval Office? Beats me. Beats a whole lot of people and the only answer is for people who voted for him to stop making excuses for him, stop allowing him room for his nasty, paranoid, and dangerous deeds, all in the name of "Oh, he can fix it."
No he can't. What he can do, and what he has done is bring the country to a boiling point that is almost past the point of no return. What he has done is encourage the haters on either end of the spectrum, to the point of actual crimes of hatred, murder and who knows what else is waiting for us around the corner. More hatred for sure. More tragedy, for sure. A certainty of a death spiral for our country and what it is supposed to be - for sure. No doubt about it.
This is a man who says, "No one else can fix it, and I can. " No, he can't. This is a man who says, "...let us get rid of the judges" and in the meanwhile, he is pushing through all of the most backward and unqualified judges he can find and being helped by the cowardly McConnell and the moral wimps of the Republican party. They are destroying their own roles, ruling themselves into uselessness, even as the fools of the country, the haters of the country, the deniers of the country, and the enemies of the country all combine to destroy us, the country, the world, and all the progress civilization has made, all the steps that man has taken to improve situations.
We have allowed that wheel to turn back, to drag us back to a time of hatred, of dangerous nation vs nation times, of dreadful prejudice, of awful deeds, and of encouragement of such rather than condemnation of such.
There is no humanity within this man and his fellow troglodytes. The Justice Department is worse than useless, and Border Patrol and ICE have lost their humanity, and now we find that the government is requesting TWO more years to reunite families, children and parents, since it seems they have lost track of where the kids are! This is unconscionable! And look at their clues - using ages to figure out which kids they tore away from parents, using the age of FIVE as a clue, for the younger the better it seems to rip away from parents. This man cannot fix anything but can only cause more depraved acts by people who fall under his thrall.
Tim Ryan, the latest announced candidate, states that he running on a platform to unify the country, to drag us back from the either or divisions we now have. Can he? Who the hell knows. There are so many candidates that I am having difficulty seeing a unified stance forming by the Democratic Party in time for 2020. Trump cannot fix anything. What he can do is sow dissension and disorder such that it leads to this terrible and perilous situation for the country and in fact, the world.
So, no, windmills do not cause cancer. No, they do not make his weird sounds. No, he cannot talk of a conversation he has with the President of the Virgin Islands because that is himself! The ass!!! Yes, there is climate change. Yes, science can help us. No, there are no fine people among those who march with hands raised in a Nazi salute. No, he cannot fix our problems, only exacerbate them.
"There's a whining at the threshold -
There's a scratching at the floor -
To work! To work! In Heaven's name!
The wolf is at the door!"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "The Wolf At The Door
This is what he can do! Bring the wolf to our doors. In fact, if you do not hear that scratching it could be too late - for you, for your loved ones, for all of us.
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