CONCRETE

     The concrete one uses to build must be of proper mix and concentration if it is to fulfill its role properly. If incorrect, the building, road or bridge roadway can collapse, causing great tragedies. Today we need to ask ourselves if the concrete mixes now being used in this country are the proper ones, the ones made to last, the ones that build a sound and firm foundation for the rest of the structure.
     Ah yes, you might be thinking now. She does not mean 'concrete' concrete, but rather the figurative concrete that is meant to build our country, our government, that is meant to build upon a sound base from the past and continue to improve that base and resulting structures way into the future. Well, we sure as hell are not doing that job properly right now. If the inspectors from Palm Beach County came around I can just see them saying, "Rip it down, all down."
     Concrete is what I sometimes think many of our brains have turned into. They have ossified, turned hard and dense, unable to truly absorb the faulty concrete that is now serving as our rather new base foundation for this country. It is a concrete that is prone to dangerous cracks and collapse.
     When and how do we correct this? Beats me, especially if we continue to keep allowing this mix to be poured over the original foundation and then build faulty towers above. As we stand around and watch, one can see the early cracks and can but only wonder about timing and the future. How long do we keep playing blind to these obscene presentations of contempt for the public, allow them to continue, allow our foundation, our country, to sink beneath the weight of it all, sink under the rising waters of uncontrolled environmental disaster?
     Some people believe they can move to another foundation and avoid this one. Well, no, you cannot. Playing the coward and refusing to face up to the head of the company, the one who designed the mix, who keeps pouring it down over us, well, that is only a delaying tactic, for eventually this concrete will cover us all.
     So, plain language, how long do we tolerate this man, this treasonous and petty man who believes he is a great leader, and a definite fit for a dictator's role, with a definite dynasty waiting in the wings. So the cowardly Republicans who never found the courage to stand up and say, "Hell, no!" are leaving the ship, swimming away, leaving the citizens of their districts and states, the people of this country, alone, to drown, to choke, as the concrete pours down. 
     These GOP people quit, leaving the dregs of humanity to remain the kernel of the once proud party of Lincoln, and now the party of any tinpot would be dictator who has only his needs, his desires, his bottom lines as the driving raison d'etre. Why and wherefore could these Republicans not gather the courage to stand up to him and his? What were they afraid of? Do they believe that there would be reeducation camps in their future? Prison camps? Nope, for that is meant only for refugees right now, not Americans!! 
     For how long? You tell me. And make sure you drop by McConnell's office and ask him what the hell happened to him? What does he believe he is getting out of the debacle that is now our country, the country that is now the laughing stock of the world even as it stands ever more likely to drive the final nails in the coffin of the world as we know it. I dread to hear what Trump has in store for all of us as he speaks at the UN Climate meeting, what dangerous heresy he will bring up, what science he will continue to ignore, what horrors he plans to unleash upon the world as he denies what is there and refuses to do a damn thing about it, or rather, make it worse than it already is. Who knows, maybe he will boast of the "new" nuclear weapns he has and unleash it upon the Atlantic and Caribbean as they swarm right now with great brewing hurricanes? I put nothing past that dangerous idiot.
     The cherry on the top? His treasonous and definitely impeachable offense of using blackmail on the Ukraine to help his campaign, to propose a quid pro quo with Ukraine: they would investigate Biden and son and the USA gives them weapons to defend themselves from the invading and threatening Russians.The effect of an impending investigation alone, even if none took place, could have changed the entire situation and this man thinks nothing of it even as we still reel over his acceptance of Russian interference in 2016. So he is crazed - and we are what? Cowards? Afraid of our own shadows? Enjoying standing around or sitting and rotating?
     Will this turn out to be yet another wrongdoing that slides off his slimy hide yet again? Or will we finally do something? Hey, perhaps all those resigning Republicans can actually understand that he cannot take away their seats as they already gave them up, so as lame ducks - ACT!!!!! Impeach the dude. Remove him from office as incapable of fulfilling his responsibilities and while at it, take along Pence who is showing more and more of the wear and tear on his own soul and morality or give him fair warning as to how to behave his last year in office. 
     And then let us get down to business and fix this country, remove the faulty and dangerous concrete, realign with our allies,put our enemies back in their places, and talk with sanity and meaning rather than bluster and lies. And ban Twitter from theWhite House!!!!
      New concrete, new leaders, a return of morality and caring for others, a new USA based on a sound concrete foundation of an ever improving past and into a better future than what we now have. It is time, well past time for us to act.