"HE IS WHO HE IS."

     So stated one presidential scholar at one university. But the question remains to be answered: just who is he? What manner of man, of human being, is this very confused and confounding man, and who or what is running the show? In fact, can anybody, any person, any scholar, define exactly just what is the show?
     In a standard life, there are standards. Period. There is a system. This system helps clue people in as to where they belong, when it is time  to do a tad of breakout thinking, and when it is time to hold back, to let the system do its job.
      Furthermore, as with most working systems, there is a head, a director, a founder of the current system. Whether the system is good or bad almost does not matter, just that there is one, at least, hence people know how to conduct themselves, what to expect, how to live life. But the fact of the matter here is that there is NO system at all. Certainly, there is not one with any logic. Certainly, there is not one with no logic. There is none. It is deuces wild every day, every hour, and for fun, suddenly the game is changed, the rules, such as they are, disappear, and the whole shootin' shebang goes topsy-turvy once more.
     So, once again. Who is this man? What is he when people say he is his own man, unique, just what the country needs. A breath of fresh air. New patterns of thinking and approaches. G-d help us! This is the man who consistently refers to himself as a hero of one sort or another. Referring to the wearing of masks, which he does not do, he states, "I sort of liked the way I looked ... like the Lone Ranger.”"  Certainly not the Lone Ranger of my day, of the show I watched almost religiously, as a child. He believes, most emphatically, that he is one of a kind (and thank the Lord or that!). His reading ability, innate intelligence, critical thinking skills, attention span, have been left back on the burner of pre-K, never to have further developed, never to have grown as a human, as a man.
     So what do we do when this man, this presumptive president, for I still believe he is not a legitimate winner of 2016, barrels wildly down the insane road map he has drawn up for himself. If he were to involve himself in a single car mishap, that is one thing. However, he tends to drag the rest of us into a multiple car accident. The results are clear and plain to see. 
     There is great fear, great doubt and mistrust as to the route he is taking. There is a fright that  something is majorly awry and wrong with this man's thinking cap. There is a huge crack in the economic infrastructure of the nation as we ride a market roller coaster, as nearly half the workforce is unemployed, many with no cushioning and with no hope of returning to a job any time soon.
     Worse than that, for where there is life, there is hope, is the fact that now we have so much death. So much. So many. In so horribly a manner, in pain, unable to breathe, in frightening deliriums, and alone, in a room, with no one there to hold a hand, reassure one of love, no one to tell them one last word of love and give them permission to leave, to opt out of the pain, that it is okay, for they fought the good fight.
     No, this man has led us, reeling, into a world of death, with near as130,000 dead, closing in on 3 million case of infection, the same virus that was supposedly disappearing in two weeks, and what does he say about this? Well, there are the asinine statements that it is nothing, that possibly we can cure it by injecting ourselves with Lysol or some comparable substance, or better yet, use medicines meant for something else, that are dangerous even when used properly, and boasts of it. Oh, and it is mostly harmless, all these cases. Try telling that to the loved ones of those who have succumbed to the virus, this harmless, supposed to disappear, virus. Perhaps that is the reason, or one of them, so as to explain, if possible, his actually insane statements and deeds or rather, misdeeds. 
     Bounties on our soldiers - no reaction other than to award Russia and Putin with an invitation to G7 - nullified by the other nations The actions of a traitor, a Benedict Arnold. Treason. And yet he goes on. Welcomes dictators into the WH while insulting our allies. And he goes on. 
     He talks of "bad and evil people." Guess he looked in the mirror but thought he was seeing someone else. He praises deeds of people- the ones who have picked up his racist football and run with it, plowing through the cities and countryside of this nation, speaking words of divisiveness and hate. He and his sow anger and defiance , exactly the opposite of what a true leader is supposed to do. Where is the unity that the President is supposed to insure? Where is the empathy? Where is the plan and in fact, what is the plan?! Is there one or are we to forever careen wildly down the streets, never mind the damage, the deaths, the growing destruction and deterioration of this country.
      "Some people don't love me. Maybe." Well, never a truer sentence has he stated, except that there is no maybe about it. With no system of his own, he is busily engaged in burning ours down, taking down the house and all within. For 74 years - okay, maybe only 73 - this man has been a bully, a useless being other than to sow pain, fear, fraud, corruption, incompetence and troubles. Is he finally reaping what he has sown? I certainly hope so, but wish it would not be as he takes this country with him. I wish it would not be as we are getting closer and closer to having our own homegrown Hitler and remember, this is the man who threw children into cold cells and cages, and thinks nothing of separating families - and losing the children!!
      To answer the opening question as to who he is, well, he is not a good person. He is not good for us, for his family, some of them already beyond redemption, and has succeeded in tearing apart the proud heritage of this blessed nation. The entire nation spoke yesterday with sad statements, rather than ones of joy and excitement. Songs and pleas to be as one, to work together, to be fair, to seek justice, and all are drowned out by the hatred sweeping the nation, and the extremists on both ends who threaten and posture holding their guns and talking of what they know not. 
     The potential for a full implosion is there and will remain there until and unless we oust this man and his Party come November. We must fight the frantic efforts of the GOP to deny voting rights to those who will oppose them. We must poll watch, get out the vote, drive the elderly to the polls, provide chairs for people to sit on the imposed long lines at slow and limited voting sites.
     Who is he? He is a man who will destroy us. He is a man who has convinced others to think that we are not a good people, that Americans are bad. Well, we are not. We are imperfect, as are all humans, and yes, we have a long ways to go towards perfection, but at least we are on the right road. Where is he, other than hurting people, insulting them, telling lies, ruining lives, ruining this country- where is he? No place good for us. That is for sure.
    So join all of us wishing to be safe, to be well, while living in a safe country that is a shining example for the world, that remembers the contributions of immigrants, that remembers its values, its credo of providing hope and haven to those who need it. To be America. To be America.