UNHINGED

     I was going to write about the Jewish New year, its meanings, its surrounding family and friends, activities, all the goings on that accompany it, but it has to wait. Watching the meltdown of a President, or hearing or reading of a raving unhinged person who went so far as to threaten and/or imply death to a whistleblower, well, it is frightening beond words.
     Trump wants to return to the days of yesteryear when apparently we did right by spies and well, you know what we did, he says. Well, what did we do? I cannot remeber any spy being put to death other than the Rosenbergs and that was a disaster as well, as we executed people who should not have been. Other than that, we imprisoned and usually exchanged our spies for theirs. The days of Nathan Hale were long over, a more ciilized rules of engagement were in play.
     And therein hangs the issue. This man knows no civilized way to play his game of making deals. It makes no never mind as to who gets crushed, for if they are in the way, tough bugs on them!!!
The win, that eternal golden WIN is always on in mind and he reaches for it as we used to do when riding the carousel - get that brass ring! But we did not take apart a country while doing it, did we?
     So what has happened over the last few days? Well, first of all, this has been happening for the past few years and that is why Trump et al are bewilderd, bothered and all hot under the collar. They shout, they tantrum quite nicely, don't you think, wondering what the hey!! We have done worse, they offer as an excuse, at least in their unhinged minds and actually thought the letter cleared him of wrongdoing. So much for the power of their thinking. And so much, hopefully, for the plans to reelect him and carry along his corrupted advisers and abettors with him.
     When a bank is robbed, or a person is killed, we do not ask the perpetrator if we should hold him for trial or suppress the evidence. Yet, here, lawyers who should know better - and I am sure they do - decided to do just that and asked the perpetrator what to do about the letter and the whistleblower. So twisted were they by the misdeeds and even alleged crimes they had committed since running for office, they believed they were invincible, their twisted leader invincible too, a teflon ideal. Well, time to prove them wrong.
     By now the entire country has become unhinged. People do not talk with each other anymore. Politics is verboten! And thus the divide grows ever deeper. There is no communication and the sides have dug in deep in their bunkers to shout across the ever growing divide, a la the usless and brutal WWI, the war which did not end all wars, but instead was a contributing factor towards WWII and the rest of history as we know it. This divide is the conjoined unhinging - of the president and of the country.
     Nietszche wrtoe of looking into that abyss, and there is an old Jewish tale which has a wise Jewish elder reminding a fellow Jew, justbefore the New Year, that when we look at someone and see bad things, we are actually seeing into our own souls, and we need to mprove. Certainly every time Trumpis acused of doing yet another foul deed, or saying some mean thing,by mouth r finger, he defleccts and acuses hi enemy of he moment of soing what HE himself has done. Do tell!
     What is even worse is that we are all so tired of this and that is dangerous. It could lead to apath, andin that case, we could have that Donald I