When is enough enough? When is it time to stop, look around, and make an assessment of the situation, how to fix it?When do we take a final mind picture of exactly where we are in terms of political space? Apparently now would be a great time for us as we have definitely fulfilled the scenario of an iconic TV ad: "I've fallen and I can't get up".
Yes, we, the once mighty USA, have fallen. We have face planted so hard, so almost irreversibly that there is indeed a question whether we can pick ourselves up again and step back to proper space and time, or is it too late, too much damage done to us and by us to be able to reverse the whole thing?
We can call upon Pete and his sake of yesterday's posting. For Pete's sake, are the Republicans nit picking on the amount of pens Pelosi used to sign that historical document, the Articles of Impeachent? Seriously? Is that all they can think of now? It is a Washingtonian tradition to give away pens used to sign Executive Orders - ahem - bills, pronouncements, whatever is official. So never mind the new filth coming out. Never mind the fact that all the rats are leaving the sinking ship of state - I hope - as the smell grows ranker with each pasing hour. Just count pens.
Now they are denying knowing Hyde, a big dude in politics and big donors, caught up in the knowledge, time appropriate, of the Ukrainian plan of Trump's. They are denying the visual and oral testimony and truth of Ukraine, what with Giuliani sitting in a liquor soaked bar, with Lev Parnas who has stated openly and unequivocally that "Trump knew exactly what was going on". Feh!!! For Pete's sake, is this what we want in our government in leadership position?
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, as they say, the Republicans are running a defense system and a jury trial with the same personnel. McConnell says "I'm not an impartial juror". Hmmm....pen usage versus open corruption at an impeachment trial of one of the most corrupt humans ever in a sullied Senate with Republicans of no moral value or courage holding the fate of the accused, the fate of our country, and the fate of the world in their hot, red handed, guilty hands. Hmmm.
But we are not yet finished with Pete and his sake! As Washington crumbles under the weight of corruption and lies, as the body politic seems to be imitating a ship going under, the contagion spreads. In Missouri they are planning a new level of censorship in public libraries that will remove many classics from the shelves and neuter much of future writing for public consumption. Another step down the road to dictatorship right here in no, not River City, but here, in the former bastion of freedom, the United States of America. Ever closer to the point of not being able to get up any more. And we just keep chugging along, dragging Pete and his sake along with us, coughing in the dust raised by all this proposed loss of liberty.
What is next? The burning of books? The permanent removal and destruction and the punishment of imprisonment if found with these "bad" books? Do we then follow in the steps that adhere to the maxim that "he who burns books will end up burning people"? Been there, done that, have we not! Do we really want to go there again and yet chillingly, with anti Semitism on a steep rise, with essays being written trying to explain why Jews need be afraid, have we not come a long way on that disasterous road?
Religious conservative organizations are paying tribute at Trump's Washington hotel, the faithful coming to pray at the feet of the apparent new messenger of a god definitely not rendered in proper terms. Carnival Cruise Line has now taken on new rules of censorhip of clothing, and everyone is now a boss apparently and not for the good either. R.E.M. is incensed at the use of their music to support those poisonous mob rallies of Trump, want everyone to know they are fighting this in the courts as Trump refuses to stop and that they "do not condone the use of our music by this fraud and con man." Such a 'lovely' man sitting there in the White House!!
The question, and more importantly the answer, is in our hands. Have we indeed fallen past the point of no return, cannot possibly get up once more? Have we driven such deep cracks within the country's very soul that they can never be repaired? Are we too far down that road with all its censorhsip, hatred, rules that are anathema to the United Staes as conceived by our Founders?
I do not know about you, but it seems that more and more people are thinking as I do. We are all afraid that the angle of descent is too steep to fight our way back to a standing and honorable position, sure and safe, secure on a proper footing. I would love to be proven wrong here, to know that we can get back up, that we will get up, that we will oust those who are not the Americans we need them to be and sadly enough, contrary to the hateful words of so many of that ilk, these hateful and destructive people live in Washington, in enclaves of their own around the nation, huddled against the world; they do not live at the borders, where there are people looking tofulfill the American dream, just as we all did and do. I hope. I pray. I struggle to remain in an upright position and keep others there as well. Together we can fix it. Together, in silence, we cannot.
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