THE PYTHON UNDER THE HOUSE

     Every once in  a while we read a story about the removal of a misplaced python captured in Florida's Everglades. These pythons are immense disturbers and destroyers of the normal chain or shall we say, circle of life, out of place, destructive, and there only because of sloppy and selfish thinking on the part of some.
     We, too, have a python under the house, nesting and laying and hatching eggs that will only cause trouble later on as they continue the destructive trail they leave wherever they go. Our pythons are not only the real things, but  also the pythons in human skin, the pythons who dig in under our foundations and weaken them, even unto the point of total collapse with no return trip available.
     These pythons believe in Darwinism of a vicious kind. They harp back to the original interpretations of Darwinism, stating and  believing that those who survive in this world are the fittest, the strongest, the best hopes for humankind - or for themselves - and those who do not make it, or survive in a bad way and place, well, tough! That is life.
     It is this attitude, this selfish, arrogant, immoral, and yes, evil, thinking that has taken over the country at this point and worse, has managed to fool those on the bottom of the strata of society to believe that they are best served by these selfish Darwinists of the economic society. They are blind to their losses - healthcare, safety nets for the welfare of those who need a helping hand, the hate and the prejudice that is encouraged, even as the truth is ignored, even as their wages grow stale and stagnant, and their children's futures are diminished. Willful blindness, or poison injected into society by the human pythons, who swallow and choke the morality of society today? Take your choice, for it truly does not matter at this point, the end of the road clear, no matter which road or choice taken.
     Yet there is still hope out there. There are judges not of Trump's ignorant and biased appointees who understand the importance of their role today, who understand that their figurative fingers are containing the leaks in the protective dikes of society. There are governmental people who fight to return to the right path, who dare to stand up and protest the cruelty of some of their jobs, uneasy being in ICE or uncomfortable with the corruption they see growing in the departments of the government. So we have creeps like Epstein and Acosta caught out and perhaps both will get their just dues now. We have the judge who basically okayed rape if it is committed by a person from a "good family", someone with hopes for a good future, and as for the victim, well, suck it up is the order of the day!!
     The other day I read a description of a 'Trump Situation'. It was explained thusly: the lights are on, but there is nobody home. Love it, though how sad it is that we have to think of our President as this Demented and Brainless Toddler. A spoiled child, insisting that he have his toys or he will throw even more and violent tantrums, and we are now told that this man who hid behind a bulletproof sheet of glass, afraid of his own base that he ginned up with partisanship, well, he is insisting on another Fourth such as he made mockery of. A waste of funds, illegal use of funds, and meanwhile the kids grow even hungrier, more Border cops are corrupted, growing shells of hardness, indifference, and worse, liking, for their positions of guardianship over the helpless.
     There is still immense goodwill out there for Americans and America, but a growing concern that the line has been crossed and are not sure if that line can ever be recrossed the other way. Not with such a scurrilous head, not with hopelssly tainted Congressmen, not with the dangerous paths we are rushing headlong down into disasters, into love fests with dictators, with murderers of their own people, with people of the lowest level of humankind. That goodwill is leaking at a growing rate and we, America, Americans, had better wake up. Soon. Now! ASAP!!
     The mouth of that python is gaping wide, its muscles flexing, and the call is going out for its brethren to come join in, gather at the feast, drink in the spoils. The python under the house is emerging, in record numbers and size, and the point of no return is approaching quickly. Our choice, folks, our choice and no one else's.
     To end on a good note, salute the women of sports, the women of the soccer team, the team that defied all challlenges and threats and insults and accusations. If in NY on Wednesday, go to the ticker tape parade and join in the cheers. Then check twitter for the tweets of a sour old man and laugh at him as he sits there like a hulk in his bathrobe, staring at the TV, spewing garbage, for that is all he deserves, and let us be even stronger in  our determination to oust that man and his minions from our lives and our government. Go team!!!