We are told that there is no fairy tale ending to the virus situation, no happily ever after. That would be okay if, a great big if, there were no ogre hanging around, refusing to admit wrongdoings and pushing the world into an ever more seemingly permanent one of ugliness and anger.
Grown ups do not expect fairy tale endings, certainly not in any realistic approach to life or an understanding of it. However, what we have now is a world of frustration, of anger, of a lack of understanding - not of people, not of oneself, not of the necessities of life and the realization that political leadership of this country, indeed of the world, is not a laughing matter, but an existential matter. And we are losing the battles and the wars in this arena.
Ironically, we do not even recognize - or at least deny recognition - of the truth of our words, even as we say and hear them. Many of us sit there and gape at the screen, at the interview, or stare at the words we just read, unbelieving, struck dumb, and angry, so angry. Angry at how we are losing not just a race or two, but losing the world, losing our country, losing our future.
.... by saying, “If you’re a dictator and you put people around you who tell you how great you are and what you want to hear, and I think they’re telling him, ‘Hey, you’re on top, you’re doing great.’”
Those were the words of H. R. McMaster as he chatted with Colbert. His foot was consistently being stuffed into his mouth by his own words. I cannot but believe that he knew exactly what he was saying, what was being maintained sotto voce, but did not have the moral equipment to stand up and shout to the skies about the dangerous creep, the buffoonish not such a buffoon, sitting there in the WH or traveling in luxury, draining the funds of the taxpayers, and all the while, stabbing American democracy and the American people in the back as they stupidly, dangerously, and unthinkingly back a person and his henchmen who will take away the liberty they so shout to the skies, even as he is more than on the beginning of a path most dangerous to us.
The CDC has lost all credibility as two factions duke it out - one the scientists and the other the pathetic shills of Trump. In the meantime, we are left trying to figure out the new rules of survival. As for the vaccine, the supposed panacea, the happy ever aftering solution, well, forget it. Who can trust it now? Who knows what safety rules have been skipped, deliberately so, all in the rush to get it there before Nov. 3, all in the rush to avoid all scientific rules and regulations. Who will suffer? We, the people, even as we become a spectacle to the world, a twisted and bizarre remnant of a once great country, now a banana republic, subject to the whims and words of China, of Russia, of Xi, and Putin, and Orban and anyone who feels like chiming in with their own two cents, dangerous or inane or both at the same time!!
We eschew tradition and the rules and foundations of our own country. We tout 'historical precedent', even as we slam down the truthsayers who remind us of the hypocrisy going on. Trump dares to impugn the last words of an icon, even in death breaking a glass ceiling, the first woman to lie in state in the Capitol. "Maybe she did and maybe she didn't." And then claims the Democratic leadership put that statement out. Never mind her granddaughter, never mind the woman herself, just lie and lie and lie! And there will always be dangerous morons who believe and parrot.
Was he there? That he dare say that and that there are believers of that rampantly evil statement - he is running yet another cavalcade of murderous cars right through the fabric of our nation. This, as he calls some of the largest cities of the country “anarchist jurisdictions” and threatens all sorts of punishments, as he destroys voting rights, claims 'naked ballots' - no privacy sleeve - need to be invalidated, thus insuring his winning of states such as Pennsylvania! He will stop at nothing, even as those responsible for the Mueller investigation now admit there was a whole lot more there and they should have done better - but there was fear in the air!
All the while, this man, this dangerous man, shouts that he is angry - at his own Republicans, claiming they need to do more to support him, even if it means buying into his egregious lies. The nerve! The danger! Even as their hypocrisy overflows the Potomac Basin, flooding the country with toxins that are homicidal to our future as a democracy. Even as they line up like good little boys and girls to vote for another backwards and benighted Justice, dooming us for the next two generations at the very least, and most probably dooming it forever. So vast and deep is the harm that a packed Conservative bench will be.
Be afraid, folks, very much afraid. We are not in the midst of a good fairy tale. No woodsman to the rescue, no prince turned frog turned prince again, riding to the rescue. No time for baby steps or looking to others to solve the problem, make it go away even as you play around and refuse to pay attention. As a kid, I stood and shouted, "The whole world is watching" and I do the same now, only with more despair and understanding of the dangers we are facing. And with less hope that there is time and momentum to fix the problems.
Please, people. Heed the cry of so many and get out there and vote, even as it is getting ever more difficult to do so, as they try to rip that right away from all of us. VOTE. VOTE. Take your neighbor to the polls, help those who need help, do whatever is necessary so that we might have a better future, and if not us, at least the kids will. At least the world will have a better shot at surviving.
Just get out there and vote, especially now if your state has mailed the ballots out and/or early voting has begun. VOTE. VOTE.
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