How the mighty have fallen. Once the mightiest country in the world, with the societal chops to go along with it, we are now the laughing stock of the world. WE are now the ones barred from entry. WE are now the country ignored at international conferences and discussions. WE are now the country that has lost its way, failed to protect its citizens, have cities, counties and states that rival entire countries as epicenters of the virus.
Worse than all that is the fact that we have an openly and acknowledged racist with heavy duty fascist leanings at the head of government, and the secondary level is afraid, shivers in their boots, at the mere thought of repudiating even his most egregious statements and actions. Thus, he and the Republican dominated Senate, replete with morally vacuum replications of public servants who are so not that - have been allowed to both run amok or sit back on their rear ends and commit more sins against the nation via acts of omission as well as commission.
One Republican spokesman phrased it exactly on the nose. No longer are we all Americans just differing on some political choices. No longer are we united as Americans at all. As he stated, "it is now us against them". Folks, if that does not send ripples of fearsome shivers down your spines then I have no clue as to what will awaken you to the existential crisis at hand. We apparently are now the enemies of each other.
Is that enmity so great, to such a degree that we invite in outside sources to place thumbs on the scales of elections and voting? Apparently so. Does the 'opposition' play very shady games, cross over the legal line and then deny it, as indicted, convicted, sentenced criminals are pardoned by the very one who suborned their crimes in the first place? Does that not sound awfully twisted to you? Does it not bring back to mind stories of the wild West wherein justice was defined on a daily changing definition, depending upon the person in charge? Do we really wish to return to that?
And yet, that is where we seem to be heading. How does one deal with a group of people who can spout these thoughts? "The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust,". Who follow the demented man who sits in a bathrobe till late morning, tweeting away, retweeting hateful statements and words, who masquerades as the country's leader?
Our country has become a place where all is upside down, where truth has become an endangered species, where in some political camps it is simply not recognized as a topic or reality. Even worse, when one is caught with figurative pants around ankles, called to task for horrifically hateful and racist tweets on a hate site, what is the reaction? The chief writer for another bigot, Carlson, is supposedly abashed that these statements - wait for it - have been exposed!! Not that he wrote them in the first place. Nothing explicitly condemned by Carlson who absolutely rallied behind, in front and beside this hate spewing chief writer of his. Do not believe the lies from his mouth that there was no connection to his show or his views. The chief writer!!! Try yet another lie, Tucker Carlson. This one goes SPLAT! Right in front of you. Where it belongs.
Surely we are better than this. Surely we can do better than this as people, as Americans, as members of the human race. We have gone terribly astray, allowing people to convince us that exposing ourselves to danger and spreading death and disease is patriotic. What the hell is the matter with us?? Instead of fighting the true enemies - the virus, the traitors who support a traitor, the deterioration and even absence of morality in government, and the list marches on - we suborn more violations, more moral breakdown, more perverted justice, more justice denied, more division, more vitriol and it is just most disconcerting and disturbing.
Can we wake up before it is too late? In fact, is it too late already? Can we turn this tormented divisiveness around? Can we fill in the chasms now dividing us, the fracturing of our very being?
Can we, will we, ever be allowed, able, to feel a sense of wellness, of oneness. Can we ever imagine our government as the protector of its citizens rather than the ones threatening their
safety?
I think to myself. I question myself. I question others. I read. I listen and I hear. And I cannot answer any of those questions above with any degree of assurance that we can turn back the tides of evil that are now rushing our shores. We are that enmeshed in the muck, the mire, of the ever growing Trumpian swamp. Am I despairing? Yes, to an ever growing degree, but I do see glimmers of hope, some changes in the depths of the edges of the swamp. But we must continue on, tread carefully, but firmly and rescue our country, the world and ourselves. Only we can do that. Us.
To Be Well, To Stay Safe - VOTE!!!!!
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