Every day it gets worse. Every day I tell myself it cannot get worse and yet it does. So the question is, how much do we tolerate? Actually, how much CAN we tolerate, before the baby goes out with the bath water? Why does not every American see the truth, clear and stark, right in front of their eyes? How can they delude themselves so much that they do not see that baby go screaming and kicking down the drain.
Are you looking around wildly now, seeking that baby, news of a terrible tragedy? Well, do not look for that, please. What you must look for is the figurative baby, American democracy, go down those very tubes, swirling around those drains, drains meant to absorb and cancel our democratic rights, our amazing history and our obligations for the future, TO the future.
How can it be that every single American does not see the truth of the matter staring them in the face. The man is demented. While in some cases that situation would be worthy of pity and sadness, in this situation it is existentially dangerous, not to him, but to us, every single one of us. To be enmeshed in his idea of Amerika, to be caught up in the soulless world that he proposes to bring about, is to lose hope - every single one of us. No one among us, from the most rabid opponent to the most devout and deluded supporter will be exempt and immune from the consequences of throwing that baby away.
The lies trip over themselves. He went for a beginning of a physical exam. Nope, it was for the end of it. He was slipping and sliding down an icy ramp on a brutally hot day. He ran the last few steps - no, he lost control and ran with the force of gravity dragging him down. I know, for I know what happens when one fights to retain control over one's body due to a neuro degenerative disorder. Evidently, along with all his physical and visible symptoms, the man has developed dementia, a severe and growing in intensity case of it. Sympathy deserving? Maybe, but not when he takes this nation along with him on his uncontrolled and uncontrollable journey to hell.
Worse for the people of this nation, this dementia seems to drip downwards to local government as well. Governors denying the need for masks and precautions because they are Republican. Crazed rednecks bringing their guns to town to strut around, being he-men of their childhood. Law enforcement personnel who had insufficient training so as to handle themselves properly in crisis, and whose biases surface during such times, demeaning themselves, their victims and other personnel who do the right thing.
And here in the Village, we have a President who mutters to himself, laughs at unknown jokes, perhaps heard only inside his own head, and who denies reality. Our road and walkways are disintegrating because under HIS presidency, his aegis, the most recent paving job was wrong from the getgo, almost criminally so, as we were just about bankrupt, rescued by a brilliant woman who is no longer with us, and this man says he wants to "do it right this time" to "not have a debacle like last time." Well, Mr. Israel, who the hell do you think it was that messed it up in the first place, trying to lie and cover it up, signing ridiculous contracts, no safety features in place, something simple like having a project manager on site.
Nor have things improved, as we are on the brink of needing a new contract with WPRF, yet nothing has been done - at least not openly, always under cover of moral darkness and apparently, financial incompetence. We signed, under your aegis, the most ridiculous ten year!!! contract with Atlantic Broadband who has violated every promise made in the contract we so stupidly signed under your urging and are suffering because of it, with terrible service all around.
Just deny appears to be the mantra of the apparently demented leaders we are dealing with at just about all levels. And worse, the dementia appears to be contagious as others become lost under the spells of these people, just as do and did those under Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Orban and Putin and the screaming religious demagogues of twisted religions.
Why must we wait till the rumors of dementia break into the open. After how many more meetings of UCO will it be till the statements and observations are too weighty to avoid and ignore any longer. How much more will it take for Americans, of every stripe, to understand that Trump has fallen into a long, deep and endless night from which there is no exit. Calling soldiers killed in severe battles in WWI losers!!! and suckers!!!! Telling people to vote twice!! Telling people to lose confidence in the bedrock of our democracy - the right to vote, the right to have untainted voting, something which he violates every damn day! And the right to know that there will be a peaceful transfer of power, not a continuation of the budding we now have of a civil war redux right here in America once more.
So, people, we must strain that bathwater we are dumping, make sure there are no babies contained within. Make sure it contains all the dirt of recent years. Insure that the next bath drawn for this country will be as pure as we can make it, not too hot, not too cold, and maybe not even just right, but the efforts and the caring will be there. That is America. Can we not get it back once more? Can we not try to be what we are supposed to be, learn from our mistakes and improve upon them. We must, folks, else we are lost, we are that poor baby thrown away, those kids dumped over the border or warehoused in rooms and cages. We are the children caught in a judicial system which just ain't working, a system gone mad and run by the inmates. A system corrupted and tainted by its officials, its morals and mores missing, zeroed out, as the snuffling and gorging at the public trough continues apace.
You, me, every single one of us, must work together to save that poor threatened baby. We are the only ones who can, who must. We must rescue our country and our governmental entities from the corrupt and/or demented, power hungry characters who are existentially threatening our very lives in so many ways. So vote - as soon as you are allowed. Go early, go mail in, go bring it in, go on Election Day - but vote. Make sure it counts. Your vote will be the one needed to rescue the country. Make sure it is there.
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