.....shape the rest of your life. So goes the song from A Bronx Tale, a modern day version of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. It was fun, enjoyable, heartwrenching and choices were clear, even simplistic, so that anyone could understand. but that was not the point nor crux of the matter. That was the fact that we need to realize that the choices we do make , in fact, do shape the rest of our lives, one way or another. There are consequences to our deeds, to our decisions.
In the upside-down world of today we tend to forget that simple maxim. We think that anything we say or do can be unsaid, erased as a crazy tweet can be erased and it 'never' existed. However, it is actually the opposite and today what one does, what one says, is there. Period. One bad side to this is that kids today can do the same stupid and thoughtless things kids have been doing since the adolescence of the first teen, but once, they could be lost in the fog of time while today, forget that, as the world of the clouds contain and remember it all. Sad news for the kids and sad news for others as well.
We have a terrible twos toddler in the White House today and all the parents and babysitters for this toddler seem to be unable to control him, to tame him. They allow this spoiled infant the room and the words to do as he wishes and as he reminds them constantly, he "runs the country". They bow before him and forget that the decisions they make, the choices they take will haunt them forever.
In the face of the most egregiously evil and dangerous behavior, these Senators, these Representatives, these National Committee members, refuse to speak out and up in public. Condemning one in private counts for naught. The only one who has the courage to fully out and outright condemn that toddler is Justin Amash and for his troubles, he has become the target of a "smash Amash" campaign, cheered on by guess who!! The very same moron who calls Prince William the Prince of Whales!!!! Sorry, Prince William is not Aquaman and only belongs to Wales and not the sea!
Seriously though, the toddler is an inveterate liar and trashes and crashes and crushes all in his way. His interview with Stephanopolous was telling in the extreme, as he outright okayed treason as he said he would allow and accept aid and info from foreign sources, a major no-no very clearly stated as such. Did the Republicans rise up and condemn this traitor? Nope. Still seeking what to fill their pants with and still unsuccessful. Their bank accounts of courage, honesty, and morality were emptied and never refilled.
We have the choices of the toddler who makes a ridiculous claim that the market would be 10,000 points higher if he were allowed free reign. He tries to hide the results of polls that are so unfavorable to him, but the choice to have the polls in the first place, make that impossible. The corruption rife within the administration with all there either enriching themselves or their friends, including Ivanka, you know, that dedicated daughter who made $4 million dollars from the Trump Washington Hotel but oh no, no violation of ethics here! No violation of ethics when the Hatch Act is violated. Nope.
No violation when the man openly claims that he has a right, a RIGHT!!! to extend his term for two more years and then serve another term and by then he would indulge his favorite wish, to become the dictator of the USA, the Ruler for Life, as his favorite tyrants of the world have become in their own countries.
His constant lies have brought us to the point where no one of consequence believes or trust him, including foreign leaders and his wolf howling over Iran is just that or is it? But who the hell knows and who knows what to believe. The man lies through his teeth, the same teeth that are chewing down his fast food as fast as he can shove it in, and his bloat of body and soul continue. Unfortunately, these bloats are affecting the country negatively and we, too, must make a choice, many choices, some very difficult choices.
There are so many problems that need choices. The cost of medicine and I know that first hand, even under Medicare. I half seriously always joke with my spouse that we cannot afford me! No joke, though. The state of our infrastructure. The dismal state of our educational system and DeVos is a huge part of the problem at this point. The tariff and trade war this man has instigated and the feelings he has dangerously ruffled all over the world. The immigration issues and now I see that we have a new group moving over here, from Central Africa, chased by violence and political chaos and danger in their homelands. What about helping to stabilize their world - and ours - no go with the Toddler. The lack of trust between us and our allies, or who used to be our allies. The lack of any American values and traditions in the White House any longer.
All these issues and more, need choices, difficult choices and we are nowhere close to making them as the Liar and the Outlaw of the White House chews through the defenses of the Constitution, of American values and ethics, of our striving to move always to a better place.
Like it or not, people, Trump and his minions are existential threats to our country, to the world, our very physical existence as the environment runs quickly to the point of no return. The choices? Impeach? Bring him up on charges? Article 25 him? Let him run out his term and vote him and his out, a temporary aberration of the America people and their creaky Electoral College system? Prepare to use force to get him to leave the White House for any of the above reasons?
Where are we going and what are we doing? These choices are frightening, the consequences frightening but we must gin up the courage to do them, to take the steps we must. What are we not doing? What choices are we avoiding? Tough questions and even tougher answers. Tough environment but we need to fix it and reshape the rest of our lives in a positive and American manner.
Here is a quote from Georgia O'Keefe that might help.
"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." Read again and again and again and take heart. We can do this. We must do this.
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