DEVIL WINDS

     Between yesterday and this morning I was not quite sure whether I was reading stories about Nature or about Human nature. The words and the statements, the conditions being discussed are so intertwined that at times one can simply substitute one for the other.
     The winds of Santa Ana were described as "devil winds". They blow with a strength that is literally helping to burn down California, and while Trump might rejoice about that, most of the rest of us do not. This crisis is a manifestation of problems in the actual world of people that leads and led to this humongous set of fires.
    We have ignored climate and environmental changes. We have ignored the fact that both wealthy and poor have moved into forested areas, interacting with Nature, with the animal life within as well. The wealthy because they can, and the poor because they must as housing within the cities and close suburbs of LA and other Californian cities  are prohibitively expensive. Thus - homeless on the streets or a trailer in the exurbs? Not good for  anyone here.
     We have lost control both in that area and in the area of humanity. The fires are out of control, and full disclosure - I must email my poor grandson ten times a day asking if he is safe and to be ready to run if he must - but there is a human factor that we forget when we look at awful pictures of monstrous fires, the fires of hell reconstructed on earth.
     We, the people of America, are burning too. We have lost the fire controls in our lives and go at each other as if we were two dogs or roosters or whatever set at each other in a fight. Funny, but telling things arise from this situation. Trump, who calls people dogs and worse, is now to greet Conan, a combat dog from the recent raid. Is it because Conan cannot talk and can be ordered to appear with his soldier handler, even as other heroes, human ones, refuse to come see the "stable genius" who blabs all the secrets of the raids and who almost cost it its demise as he pulled out on the Kurds who were absolutely necessary to the raid and for its success.
     Where are we in fighting the fires that rage through our body politic? We have forty nonsensical conservative groups calling out Pelosi for ethics violations? The same violations that actually can be laid at their doors and particularly at the door to 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. and the resident within?! Gaetz, one of the worst representatives in Congress, from Florida, is suing Schiff for ethics violations!!!! What have we come to? Where and when do we meet the bottom of this pit we are digging even as we stand in it?
     The best is when yet another incompetent and biased unqualified nominee for an Appeals Court is named and the ABA describes him  as such:"Mr. VanDyke’s accomplishments are offset by the assessments of interviewees that Mr. VanDyke is arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-to-day practice including procedural rules," it said, explaining why despite his professional and academic experience, they gave him a "Not Qualified" rating. "There was a theme that the nominee lacks humility, has an 'entitlement' temperament, does not have an open mind, and does not always have a commitment to being candid and truthful."  And in addition, he is quite openly prejudiced against the LGBTQ community and please, enough with these crocodile tears. We saw them in Kavanaugh too and there he is, joined in tandem with the other sexual pervert on the Court, Clarence Thomas. Enough with the packing of the benches of justice with ignoramuses who will destroy our America for the next four decades and more.
     The vote today in the House is a vote on our future. No, Congress has not appropriated Executive power, but rather the opposite, wherein Trump et al are trying to and have succeeded in many areas to pluck legislative powers and stick them in his pocket. All the better to improve his journey on the path to becoming the first American "Great Leader" - demented as he is, for he has pulled the morally deficient crowds with him.
     We need to stop all these devil winds and their causes and consequences if we are to survive as a nation, as a democracy, as a light to the nations of the world, as a haven of safety and refuge for immigrants and benefit from their labor and thoughts, their physical and mental powers.
     It is up to us. NO, stating that your brain cells have other jobs to do rather than using them to read about the latest Trump outrage, is not the way to go. Sorry if it makes people uncomfortable, particularly if they voted for Trump, so manifesetly unqualified in so many ways and a clear and present danger to the country, but we need to fess up, to man and woman up and fix it!!!
     Nature has shown its anger at us. Humans have shown their animalistic sides in this increasingly non bi partisan nation. What more do we need to push us into action, to full confession and true repentance. The devil himself? Well, just look over there at 1600, at the crowds of sniveling, non law abiding group of liars, and to their cohorts in the Congress. Shame on us all.