Do you ever feel caught in the midst of a never ending nightmare, a dream gone wrong, a dream that has you enmeshed forever? Well, news blast - we are in the midst of that right now and it ain't looking pretty for the future either.
Yesterday was a day during which I had time to think, cut off from the media, other than newspapers in print. It gave me a time during which I could try to assimilate the rapid onrush of all these once unthinkable things that are happening and then, I find that it is totally non compliable with my wishes, with my attempts to understand, make sense of this mess. It is just that crazy, just that shocking, just that unheard of.
We are now told by brilliant minds, far more adept than I re political situations, that we are in a bad place. A very bad place. And it is not the movies. It is real. It is frightening. It is horrifying. And it is unimaginable, yet here it is and here we are. Once, the world was told that we had "nothing to fear but fear itself", but today, we have much more than that upon us. Today, there is no unity. Today, there is only confusion as to what and who and why about this whole mess, so chock full of contradictions, that one's head just spins away.
“I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling more and more as if we’re all trapped on the Titanic — except that this time around the captain is a madman who insists on steering straight for the iceberg. And his crew is too cowardly to contradict him, let alone mutiny to save the passengers,” Last week alone, Paul Krugman, David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, Dave Eggers, Gail Collins, and so many others, not radicals, but plain, often more conservative or restrained in their writing and viewpoints, bright people have been writing previously unthinkable thoughts and evaluations. From "mad King Donald" to dictator, to demented narcissist. to poison for the nation, to a traitor, a treasonous President, one is not shocked any more for the situation has gone to the extreme.
What are we supposed to do? How do we combat a threat to the nation, defeat a person who is supposed to personify the country and all that made and makes it a great nation? How do we defeat a tyrant who constantly threatens to cut off funds from those who disobey or oppose him and his policies. Schools with 'leftist orientations" - and read that - opposition to opening school in September as usual- are threatened. We have a Sec. of Education that does not know an A from a B and has a thinking process prominent only in its absence. Media of all categories are threatened with extinction, with shutdowns, denigrated, with reporters actually feeling under threat, and now Pompeo, the huge disappointment, blusters and protects his master, and promotes a shutdown of TikTok because teens on there are campaigning against that very master. Not for any other reason.
"I will not comply." So speak idiots, but see them rush to the hospital and expect others to care for them despite the fact that we should leave them to be hoist by their own petard, by their dangerous behavior! But nope, there they will be.
"Historic corruption" So says Romney and ONE other GOP Senator or political figure. ONE!!! They should all be kicked the hell out of office by whatever means we can. They have turned their backs on us, on the people, stand there shivering, afraid of a madman, do his bidding like the lapdogs they have become. If we need special elections or hearings or whatever - they must go - to the very last one.
We are warned that we are in a bad way, in "one of the most unstable times in the history of our country." I so concur, and so have stated in so many words, over and over again. The Madman states that we are in a good place, even as we now have nearly 3,250,000 cases and growing, and over 135,000 deaths right through Saturday. States are erupting in ugly bursts of disease, short again on supplies, working with little but the knowledge painfully gained via experience, and through their exhaustion. They do not believe we are in a "good" place. Not at all!
And here we are, the rest of us, pawns of an insane self believed and proclaimed Master of the Universe. He even has begun a Space Force!! Is that what we need now? We cannot even manage on this small orb in space, so what now? We need to get out there and mess up more of G-d's universe? I do not think so! Not at all.
And again, now what? Should we try to wake up, fight off the tremors of a dystopian world? Do we try to turn on the lights ? Or do we say as a character in a novel I read yesterday states? When asked, after a truly terrifying experience, if his friends should leave him there, where he is, "alone and in the dark", he answers, "Sometimes being alone in the dark is the only way to find the light."
Simple, yet profound and quite true.
Yet another literary character in a perilous situation, thinks of what she was once told. "...the stars were merely sewing pins, holding the black sky up so that it did not come down on the world and suffocate it." I think that one hits it right on the nose. That is what we are feeling. We are suffocating in a world that once could never be. Not here. Not now. Not ever. Not in the USA. Not in America. Well, now borders are closed to us! Now the Lady of the Harbor dims her light, stands alone in the dark, waiting, waiting, waiting for the time when she can relight that torch, resume life as America, and end the stream of salty tears that eat away at her purpose, at her significance, at the very fabric of her being. She is us. She is America. And we are in trouble.
Do we stay in the dark, never reaching out to the light or do we fight for the right to be us, to be American, to once again, take up our duties and responsibilities to the world. Only then do we have a chance to be well and to stay safe. It will take much hard work but that is the truth of it all. VOTE!!!!
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