IN POINT OF FACT

  There are times when I wonder if we actually could be living in that long nightmare we all had as children, perhaps this was all a dream, or perhaps we were even in a parallel universe where history was turned on its head. America became Amerika, and we lived in a grey, shrouded world, where truth was a four letter word and lies the currency of the day.
     Lies are apparently the way to go these days. Trump is a "great' leader with awe inspiring leadership, particularly in handling (or mishandling) the pandemic. This, as we near 180,000 dead. That figure of 200,000 no longer appears to be an impossibility and is, in fact, a definite probability. Such leadership we could all, literally, live without!!
     The lies flew through the air last nite with the greatest of ease. More name calling, calling on poor Nessie from Loch Ness; leave the poor sea serpent alone, you troglodytes! Find some reality to hinge speeches on rather than the hysterical speeches of Junior, a Hitler, literally, in the making or his way, way, off nutjob of a girlfriend. The open insertion of the family into the proposed long term goal of Trump is blatant. 
     The longer I think about it, the more I examine his words and deeds, and the moral collapse of the RNC and the GOP, the more I see his monarchy building program growing and growing. The man and his family know no bounds, seek only the good and welfare of themselves and Americans can go along with their own destruction and debasement or go to hell - which is where he has us now.
     Sounds off the wall and I cannot believe that I am actually believing this, but in point of fact, I see no alternative. The man is and always has been a clear and present danger to us. His appointees are all slimed with corruption, greed, incompetence, and have worn out several pairs of knee pads as they kowtow to their master. 
     Too much talk of overstaying terms of office, ignoring of election results if displeased with them, tampering with the underpinnings of democracy - postal service, free elections, service for the people, and shredding the Constitution and all its provisions. No more checks and balances. No more separation of Church and State - and brother! That one frightens me, even as Junior spoke last nite of the importance of his triad of principles, including CHURCH - just like the triad of Hitler and the Nazis.
     The threats and even the acts of calling in the military, armed forces, to fight their own neighbors, shades of China, of the USSR, of Russia today, Belarus, Hong Kong and the list keeps on going - well, are we to be that or are we to be Americans? 
     Even as the numbers grow of Republicans who are finally bailing, openly admitting  that they served a madman as a leader, a greedy, racist, misogynistic man of no culture, only darkness, and a core of icy hardness, we are still facing horrifying memes that he and his urged on and fertilized with their own statements. 
      Kushner apparently has become an important part of this administration. That is a given. But, a big and loud but, the new meme posted by oppositional Republicans, that EVIL resides in Kushner, "Evil is real. And it lives in Jared Kushner," - well, folks, here go the antennae as we find the Jew in the administration and begin the laying off of all blame on that Jew. Apparently, the nastiness of Trump carries right on through even to those who oppose him - but now we must ask - how do they oppose and where are their goals and aims?
     In point of fact, we, America and Americans, are at a crucial point and must choose. We must choose carefully. We must be strong. We must be aware of the underlying plans and boiling ugliness beneath the surface of those who appear so civilized. A tie and a jacket mean nothing. Nor does a bullet in the back of a man going into a car where his three children are sitting. That is not law enforcement. 
     We are lost at present, way off in our meanderings down all the wrong paths of life. We have made so many wrong choices. The swamp of Trump has grown enormously. The "monsters be there' memes of the maps of the Middle Ages have implanted themselves in our time and we needs be aware of them.
        But these monsters are us. Us. By action and lack of action. By words and lack of words or the use of the wrong words. Let us return to humanity and the belief in being humane. Let us return to working to progress rather than to retrogress and slam the doors and windows on all progress and hope, on all dreams of and for the future, on all that America is supposed to be.
      Your vote is that important. It is not just one vote. It is many votes. Yours is the most important. So is his. As is hers. So is mine. As are all of ours. VOTE. Please.