A PLETHORA INDEED!

     There are times when one can be embarrassed by a plethora of choices and wealth. Well, this is one of those times, when we here in the USA are indeed embarrassed by a plethora of..... What? Stupidity? Cupidity?  Insanity? Sheer madness? International conspiracies emanating from a dead Venezuelan aided by Communists and weird Germany stuff? Or is it even worse than that and we just refuse to recognize the strength and depth of the threat, laying it all off on lesser, though indeed major, thoughts?

From hair dye raining down a man's face as he insanely ranted and raved nonsense in a parking lot next to a sex shop (how appropriate is that!), to attempts to overthrow a country - yes, folks, right here in the real equivalent of River City -  our own government. Our country. Our Constitution.

People finally have come to agree with what I have long stated, that this man is an existential danger to this country. This man who shirks his duty, plays golf rather than attend a G20 meeting on the pandemic as it rages through the world, showing how little he cares for any, ought himself, is bound by no rules, no reality, only that reality which he creates within his own twisted and damaged mind. 

More and more I have seen the sobriquet of traitor attached to his name and about time. But the worst? The most self denying illusion that people have? This one: There is no legal path, despite all how he and his deluded followers twist and tweet themselves into knots to accomplish, to overthrow the election results. Saying over and over in a sulky tone, in his toddler tantrums, that "I won", accompanied by a sourpuss face, either smirking or bulldoggish, means and changes nothing. So we are safe, right? Wrong! 

Here is the clincher to the whole issue. Trump could care less about legal paths. He simply uses these so called paths as frivolous, timewasting and aggravating suits to disguise what is truly obvious. Legality be damned. With fanatic loyalists in crucial positions, what are the odds that legality is thrown by the wayside just prior to or at the same time, as the Inauguration, and the troops come marching down Pennsylvania Avenue or wherever they choose. No ticker tape parade down Broadway, but rather a parade of force. Yes, legal means mean nothing to a man who habitually crosses the legal lines, all the time, through all the years.

Think the armed forces will refuse that order? Possibly, but what about the crazed mobs chanting robotically - "Four more years!"? What about them? Riots, mob rules, blood in the streets. Dear G-d, but I hope I am wrong, that I have been continuing these sleepless nights for nothing,  but I already have heard these mobs referred to by respected analysts as Trump's army, waiting to wage their own war upon reality and legality, to support the very loss of what they claim to defend - a free country, a country where rights are respected and upheld. Well, that will slide nicely down the tube to hell, will it not?

 When and how can we break this dangerous derangement of masses of people? Is there even time to do this, and even should some sense prevail, is there any chance for unity to return to the United States? Doubt rains down upon that idea as plentifully as the melted hair dye ran down the face of an insane and tormented Giuliani, a shadow  of the hero he once was. 

Doubt grows as we see the cowardice of the GOP, as we are deafened by the thunderous silence from them over these dangerous antics, and now the few, finally emerging voices, still dull, and hypocritical as they can be, as they remove themselves from the past four years of silence re Trump and his twisted behaviors, demented and dangerous decisions. The past is with us, always, and the past will rebound upon these cowards, hopefully, not too late.

Perhaps there is hope. Biden is quietly  determined to keep on going, to ignore as much as he can and fight for the right way, the legal way. Trust must be revived in this country. Medical personnel, probably first in line for vaccines, are hesitant, for when so much distrust has been raised, how can we trust the results of tests? How much political garbage went into all this? So who will be shoved to the front of the line? Your guess is as good as mine! But we must all pull together, for the alternative is not really a good choice. Suddenly our plethora of roads become limited, with danger lurking at the wrongly chosen paths.

It will take hard work and dedication to turn this country around. Our enemies will play their advantages during this time. Our security is weaker than ever. Our lack of unity allows dangerous waters through the dikes of history as the Constitution is mocked by the appointments of unqualified, biased judges to ALL levels of the federal judiciary. Yes, it will take time, a long time, much heavy lifting, if we are to change the presently anticipated future. In fact, our very lives will depend upon all of us lifting together, winnowing the correct choices from the false plethora we seemingly have.

And just as a brief postscript for today, the same kind and level of hard work is necessary right here in the Village. Who knows how long David Israel and buddies will continue to deny proper UCO functioning, proper participation of and by the residents. Who knows what will happen this year at our election what with no publicity, no meetings, no presentations, no nominations from the floor -nothing, only the same old incompetence and danger of David Israel and his poor imitation of what we need to have here in the Village. A thought. Will we even be without UCO functioning as it should right through March, 2022, so as to enable David to remain in position, or ram through a shill for himself? Hmmmm.....

Time to try to get some sleep. Hope you all sleep better than I have been able to. Sometimes, I think, it is better to remain in ignorance and not think too much, but that ship has already sailed. Ah, to sleep, perchance to dream..."- of chocolate and ice cream, of books and theater, of justice and equality, of America.