HELL BENT!

  According to many people, asked about the various crises of the world, well, the direction it appears to have chosen is down, hell bent. Hell bent on what? Apparently on destruction, of self and of others. We are so immersed in our violence, in our own grievances, that we cannot see past them, see the connections between them, never mind trying to find a path through this thicket of thorn bushes that we have created for ourselves. The same thicket we are feeding with the blood of too many, literally and figuratively.

Liz Cheney was pretty much executed in public. Even as her head remained attached to her neck, it was seen rolling down off the Republican platform, bloodied and abused. The Republicans are, according to one observer, "eating themselves, devouring themselves" in their rabid and rapid deterioration. They have become a cult, worshipping one man, bending the knee numerous times to his rages and path of destruction. They have engaged in lies to obfuscate the truth. People were hugging and kissing the officers! Ask the poor guy beaten nigh onto death as the video clearly shows. But nope, all denied so it never happened. Soon enough, given enough rope, this insurrection of Jan. 6 will be written out of history totally unless turned into a love fest! I can hear Deborah Kerr singing "Toads, toads, all of you people are toads!" If the shoe fits....

This absurd questioning of the legitimacy of the election is corrosive. It is eating away at the very underpinnings of our nation, refuting the principles of the Declaration, of the Constitution, of the Bill of Rights and all Amendments. Rights will revert to privileges for the privileged, not for all, no more government of and by and for the people. Lincoln? Not his GOP any more even as McCarthy states with a solemn face that no one is questioning the legitimacy of that election! Really? Truly? But then again, truth is alien to this emerging GOP.

Meanwhile, across the sea, the blood is flowing once more on already blood soaked land. Close to 2,000 rockets thrown at Israel with 400 of them landing in the territory of Gaza, harming themselves but blaming it on Israeli attacks. Yes, some civilians were hit, but that is on Hamas themselves as they surround their arms and rocket setups with their own families, knowing the hypocritical voice of the world will be raised against Israel for this, with, as usual, the deaths of Israelis, of Jews, discounted once again, always of little value to the world at large.

The destruction to be found in the cities and fields of Israel are terrible, even as the amount of rockets held by the enemy is seemingly endless, supplied to them, paid for them, by Arab and Moslem nations. Money meant to ease situations, to build an economy are instead reverting to leaders of terrorist organizations, buying arms rather than food, building arsenals rather than schools or hospitals, encouraging children to grow up to kill Jews, rather than grow up to contribute to the world in a positive manner. So on they go, shooting rockets deliberately into the cities, to harm more, as many as they can, and on the Israelis go, 'knocking' on roofs, making phone calls to warn of a rocket on its way towards them. Who the hell does that, warning the enemy, other than Israel and yet the world accuses it of imaginary war crimes, of actions beyond their control. And the world spins on.

Hell bent, I agree. Ransomware attacks, panic in the streets. At least we have a President willing to speak to the public, to answer questions, to have a calm demeanor, to speak words rather than shout threats in an illiterate and crude manner. Still, is that enough to stop our slide downwards? I truly doubt it as everyday seems to bring yet another crisis even as the ones that came before are still among us, quite active, too.

I dream of the times when we can have an innocent girl singing of the "owls, hooty - hooting above" singing that she is in love. The only owls we have are the ones hooty- hooting the warnings of the wise. Sit up! Stand up! Thinking caps on! Brains functioning! Mouths shut as ears open. Simple directions and instructions, yet evidently too difficult for most of us. So hell bent it is. Maybe, maybe, we can stop it. Maybe.