It is astounding to me that at my age I have become a political follower, not of a particular person but what is happening within it and because of it. It is like following a will o' the wisp, so changeable are the politics and politicians of the day. But worse than anything, it is the lack of stamina, of courage, of 'rightness' within so many involved in our political apparatus that grips and astounds me, much to my regret.
Not an idiot, I know there are no perfect ideals in this world. I even recognize the fact that my first political hero, JFK, was flawed, but the man was a genuine hero, a good person, and while savvy in the ways of the world, did not take off after enemies in the dementeed manner of politicians today, particularly Republicans. It seems as if we have lost the brakes in our behavior and over our mouths. Anything goes it seems.
So we have governmental officials, high up muckety mucks, being censored or fined by courts, a la DeVos, who so humanely is insisting on collecting debts by students for payments to defunct and false colleges or schools. We have the Justice Department, now a tool of Trump, starting an investigation of an investigation, hoping against hope to deflect the impeachment inquiry.
As for the impeachment inquiry, the Republicans, having had their toddler temper tantrum to no avail other than to ridicule themselves, grown men and women standing there going 'wah wah, I want to play too, let me in the club', are now deciding on another tack. Yup, instead of admitting that their leader is a false god, a liar, cheat and scum of the earth, they are not fighting the accusations and the findings, the truths of it all, but are rather fighting the process. Such clever toddlers!
It boggles the mind, at least of any sane, thinking and moral person, how they and others of 'the base' can ignore and deny the facts uncovered, the filth that has risen to the surface. These facts are so clear and so egregious, that instead of the futile resistance to the facts, they argue the lies, argue the process that revealed them!! Great thinking! When the man's lawyers tell the judges that Trump is correct, that he can literally shoot and murder a man in public and get away with it because he is President, say "That is correct. That is correct." in answer to the astounded judge, well, we are beyond help unless we do the almost unthinkable and throw this guy out into the street along with his minions, and imprison and fine whomever, whyever, wherever deserves this. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW AND THAT INCLUDES TRUMP!!!!!!!!
The dizziness of the insane whirls us along with him. Out of Syria, gift to the Erdogan, desert our allies and let them be killed by the thousands, then allow 500 soldiers to stay and send over war equipment, all the better to lose it to the enemy. What the hell are we doing? What the hell are we allowing? It is no wonder that so many Americans are shutting the news, refusing to listen and hear anymore.
But that is not the way to go for though Washington cautioned us so long ago about foreign interference, and Lincoln warned us about a House divided and the short length of its life, we have chosen to ignore, thinking, all of us, like infants, that if we close our eyes to it, it is not there. Well, that magical thinking does not work in the real world, does it?
No more. No more deliberate ignoring of sins and crimes. No more acceptance of liars and moral bankruptees. No more ignoring the truth and no more apathy. Our very lives in every sense of the word are at stake. In the meanwhile, I vow not to give up, not to turn away, and hope against hope that somehow reality in a positive sense will filter in and we elect someone like Klobuchar, a moderate, with head on straight, to the highest office in our land. But again I state, anyone and anything gets my vote against that man if he remains in office till that time. A flea, a gnat, a monkey, - I do not care. Anyone but Trump. The world cannot take any more of him and his. We are already wobbling on the point of the needle.
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