GROWN UPS. WHERE ARE THEY?

          Children are protesting all over the world with a young girl from Sweden leading the pack. Youngsters are leading the ever growing and ever more volatile protests in Hong Kong. Young adults here in the USA are turning more and more to the burning socialism of yesteryear, the drive and belief which forced the USA down the right roads and into a social safety net for our citizenry.
      Oh, did I forget the adults? Tsk, tsk. But the question is where are they? When even young leaders such as Trudeau of Canada get into trouble, when young leaders speak dangerous idiocy because they do not know better and the examples of their elders lead them to do that, well, where are the true adults, the altruistic ones that we used to pride oursleves on? Where are they? Beats me!!
     Such is our situation and because we have no true leaders, we are growing and going into a bad situation, one of danger. While the children rage in Congress, while the Republicans insist on backing an immoral crook, deep in the throes of dementia, the Democrats are pushing spending bills that die in the Senate because the children there are refusing to cooperate. The Leader of those infants, those morally deprived toddlers, is using his power to veto as a blackmail threat, hoping to stop the snow avalanche that is coming down on him. So by Thanksgiving we will be out of money for the government. What happens then? Will anything ever happen, become productive efforts in that madhouse? Only G-d knows and quite frankly, perhaps He is scratching His head in bewilderment as well.
     33,000 emails under investigation in a stupid money wasting campaign of our turncoat Attorney General, Barr, and all that were found were 98 that should have been more careful and no systemic problem or plan. In the meanwhile, where oh where is dear Ivanka, and dear Jared as well, as their emails on their private servers that contained government info - well, tsk, tsk, and let us remember goose and gander. Let us remember that same maxim when the creeps Junior and Eric and wife Lara speak as if they are morally white as angels even as they continue to run around the world trading on Daddy's name, working Daddy's business. Get thee gone, Hunter, and make room for the truly black hearted and nasty dudes and dudettes.
     What does the country worry about? Well, I am upset that the Yankees blew it. I am fascinated with the whole stupidity of the college entrance scams. Since when is it a surprise that the uber wealthy have traded donations for privileges? How many buildings and fields are endowed with names of families who had a bit of a troublesome child, so the schools were convinced to keep the child with just a bit of a tasty hors d'oeuvres to sweeten the deal? For how long has there been a legacy policy in schools all over the country. As for the less monetarily blessed, well, they work for the school, donating time, effort, raising funds through activities. Trust me, when that PTA President walks in, principal listens to them and their complaints. Or ideas.
      This is life and if the crooked people would not have taken the money to help this along, it never would have happened. So who is guilty here, the prostitute and sex worker or the criminals who traffic them, the pimps who take advantage of them, or society which forces them into this career due to a lack of any other opportunity? Think, people, think. And why should anyone be honest, really, if the President gets away with it, over and over again, and his desperate antics and behaviors now are looked at with ennui as we turn to more important things, you know, like where to eat tonight, or how to get our kids into schools, or how to flatter the boss, or why the heck did those Yankees blow it again??!!
    Society is deeply troubled and fractured. Labor is speaking up, wanting a share of the wealth of an economy that rests upon their backs even as the wild profits return to the treasuries of the companies and the pockets of the top echelon personnel. Children, more and more, are going hungry, with food pantries running out of food earlier and lunch debt in schools causing schools to actually deny food to a hungrychild.
     We do not talk to each other. We have declared political discussion verboten as we chit chat the day away. We think that if we turn off the TV, close the computer, concentrate on Candy Crush, all the bad will go away and life will be good. Think again, folks, and quickly. And while we are at it, while I think Clinton should have brought this up in a better way, the Russian media is plumping for Gabbard, and have we not been there before? She is just another isolationist, another populist, in another color suit and disguised party affiliation. But, a rose is a rose, is it not, and we have so many other issues and she is so unlikely to gain a nomination that we should just take a watchful waiting to see what happens. Time to stop this ugliness amongst ourselves. Time to play adults once again. The kids need us and we need ourselves.