I first came across the phrase "democracy grief" yesterday in an essay written by Michelle Goldberg. Wow, but did that term smack straight between the eyes. It described, encapsulated, all that I, and so many others, have been feeling. It is a despair that seemingly has no definitive end for at best, the foreseeable future. And that, my friends, leads us to grief and despair.
Why? Simple. Those emotions arise from the worry that democracy in its distinctive American style will be gone and will never return. The moral cowardice, the collusion of the Senate Republicans with their Master from Below, and the possiblity, horrifying as it is, that Trump could actually be reelected in 2020, well, here comes the despotic, oligarchic and corrupt government such as we have never had, not even during the time of Harding or Nixon.
We will have foreign intervention and participation within our government and national policies and who knows what else? Will there be mass disenfranchisement? Will there be mass roundups of opposition? Will there be a wholesale change in life for Americans and not in a good way either. As the world turns to s#&t, as the climate and the earth itself turns its revenge upon the desecraters of its integrity, who will live and who will simply survive - or not?
Think I am over the top, jumped the shark? Well, think again. When I predicted the possibility of a civil war, .....soon there were many commentators who said the same. When I wrote of other accusations and possibilities others said never, and yet, here we are with a Party serving the head of it, turning its back on all that is right, and deserting the nation and loyalty to it. At this point I do not believe there is a single Republican in the Senate who has the moral uprightness and integrity to vote for impeachment. Not a one!!! And to add to that disgrace, there are some Democrats who also stand with them for the sake of their seats. Of what use will these seats be when they become as useless, as powerless, as meaningless as the Diet of Russia?!
Right along that same crack in the tundra of the country, we have Nunes who is now exposed as up to his miserable neck in corruption and yet, he is one of the Senate jurors. Pots and kettles here, folks, and the outcome - democracy grief. Democracy despair. The man is running, I believe, at last count, six lawsuits and here is a simple question with no obvious answer. From whence and how does this man finance these lawsuits, who is he paying and how? There are no visible funds for this so.....You answer that question and I bet you will find some arch conservatives and some foreign infiltrators working side by side to increase the havoc and anomie that this nation is falling into deeper and deeper. The well of havoc seems to be based on a bottomless abyss and we are falling, my friends, falling deeply downwards with no rope or climbing possibilites visible. And yet there he remains, in the Senate, adding his two cents to the mess.
He, McConnell, are all "taking their cue" from the White House, from that man with that smirk that I would love to smack off his snarky face. Whoa, but I can remember my parents telling me at times of disagreement, shall we say, to "get that smirk off my face or it will be removed for me". And I believe I followed right along when driven to the edge by defiant teens. Removed it I did and so did my kids, but this toddler, he is so full of hubris, of his own self importance, of his own greatness in his remnant of a working brain, that he hears nothing that makes sense, only the nastiness roiling within him and the desperate need to spew it forth on anyone and anything that opposes his tantrums and demands.
So yes, there is the title and its explanation. But I believe we can add one more word - desperation. That is what so many are feeling now as the election and its aftermath remains unknown. Will he go down in the defeat he so deserves? Will he vacate the White House willingly, obeythe laws and rules of a nation he has just about destroyed? What will happen if he does not?
Oh, you point out the possibility of conviction on the impeachment charges? Ha!! Not with these Senators. There is no more justice, no more courage, no more moral values thee at at all. So we will listen to the truth, but will the truth be enough? "Why waste time discovering the truth when you can so easily create it?"
So speaks a character in a novel and so speak the many liars and turncoats of the Trump administration. We are in deep trouble as a nation, deeply ensconced in grief, despair, danger and loss of meaningful hope for the future. Now read the title again and understand.
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