BREEDING GROUNDS

     Breeding grounds are places which lead to ideas, plans. At times that is a good idea and at others, well, someone should have known better! Think tanks are places specifically meant to generate or breed ideas, while that hunched over group of seventh grade boys is probably hatching a no-no idea and how to put it into action. Obviously, there are levels and measurements but we certainly have come up with a doozy of a breeding ground today.
     Where is it, you ask? About midway along the east coast of the country, ostensibly the capital of our country. Many good ideas have come from that breeding ground. Women's rights. Civil rights. Equality. The end to slavery. SNAP - or as we commonly know it, food stamps. Regulatory safeguards for the country. Treaties and pacts. Declarations of war - and of peace.
     We hope that most will be beneficial to and for the country, but today that is a major area of doubt, for the country is ignored and the ideas that are thought of and approved are ones that cut aid to people, that encourage actual hunger today, in 2020, in America. They encourage greed amongst manufacturers, and death to people caught up in fetid areas polluted by industrial waste. Today's breeding grounds offer ideas and support that have led to increased and violent prejudiced acts against minorities, including the shocking growth of violent and murderous anti Semitism.
    Today's breeding grounds in DC are concentrated in two places - the White House and the Senate with branches throughout DC. Our supposed government for the people has fostered hate, lies, a miasma of evil and greed that threaten to take down this country. Truth no longer matters, for denial is the name of the game and the game of every hour. Open faced lies that deny pictures, distinguished officials, that turn the accusations and the sins of the dangerous breeders into deflected accusations which are then blamed on those seeking the truth. In order to best know the crimes, study the accusations of the side which breeds the wrongs. 
     It is a sad world when the leaders of a country lead us into a dangerous situation which imperils our very being, our 'Americaness' shall we say. Every day more and more filth about our present administration, the breeding ground for so much that has afflcited us these past three years, comes spewing forth from the never ending fountain of muck and the swamp of ill, of lies, of corruption, continues to grow, overwhelming all in its path.
     The adjunct areas - Senate offices. House offices. Anywhere a Republican lives as they discuss thetruth of the impeachment accusations, the new evidence that keeps rising to the surface, like the scum that it is, even as they determine to lie, to violate sacred oaths, one of which they swore to yesterday, to ignore and defy, veto, the decisions of the Chief Justice who is presiding over the trial. What a sham of a trial that will be. We do not even know if the Chief Justice will prove to be nonpartisan or be false to the country and true to the fear and cowardice, the lack of morality which has drowned the GOP in its depths.
     If one needs extra encouragement, more room for concocting nefarious deeds, then simply walk over to the Washington Trump hotel where therein one will find enough planners, conspirators, breeders of wrong to last a lifetime or two. Unfortunately, that lifetime will also prove to be our lifetime as well. And the lifetime of our children. And the lifetime of our grandchildren and so on and so on.
     What we need to do is set up our own breeding ground, one meant to develop ideas that will restore America to its Americaness, that will welcome the immigrants, that will feed its hungry, that will see to the safety of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we walk upon. It will arrive at plans as to how to fix the harm of the past and avoid crimes in the future. In other words, it will do what a true and good government is meant to do. Be a government of the people, by the people and FOR the people - not the Senators or the industrialists or the military or the fatcats.
     We need to fumigate these breeding grounds of wrong that are overwhelming the country. We need to educate our children and our population as a whole how to distinguish the truth from convincing lies, to separate bombast from truth, and to push aside those that would wrong all that 'do not matter' in their eyes.
     It will not be easy, but then again, nothing good ever comes easy, does it?