WAZE AND GPS

  Ever look around and wonder whether you are in the midst of a nightmare, the supposed dream actually being reality? Ever feel that discerning the true line that separates reality from non reality has become and grows even more difficult? Then one turns to find advice, for aid in solving the dilemma, and finds none, or such 'help' that is being offered is of little or no value, or is actually even more misleading than the original problem.

See, there is no Waze or GPS for real life. The errors of those two systems can be remediated- make a u-turn, disregard, or read a real map. Yup, that can be done. However, the maps for real life, the role models, advice as to proper and righteous behavior, directions for finding the right path, the correct route - nope, all gone, disappeared into the ether and all we have in return are flawed, imitative personalities wherein adults engage in fantasy play, returning to the days of yore when they were children in the schoolyard.

Now, you wonder, if this is reality, do I want to wake up or stay asleep? If it is a dream, well, the same question, I guess, depending on where you stand on truth vs. the Big Lie, on decency vs. hatred, on progress vs. regression. How do we find the truth when we hear a judge accusing Barr of obfuscation, of knowingly hiding the truth, defending Trump from his just desserts? Indeed, how do we know which road to take. Cheney for being independent, refusing to back down on the truth re Trump, about Jan. 6 and the insurrection. McCarthy and McConnell have long ago lost sight of their directional signals of right and wrong, of truth and lies, of decency vs crippling and cruel societal downturns. Josh Hawley is way down the road already, deeply immersed in fascistic behavior, always at the ready to deny truth and support the Big Lie.

People, we have a job to do. We need to wake people up, reminding them, advising them, warning them, that the dream is a living nightmare, is only going to get worse unless we all stand up in opposition. Truth is not falsehood. Democracy is not denying people the access and right to vote. Society is not improved by consigning segments to hunger, uncertainty, despair and death. The USA is not supposed to emulate the worst countries of the world, but rather to be a role model for them, a proper role model of democracy and progress, of justice, of caring, with a vibrant economy powered by a smoothly running government.

How have we come to this low level when supposed leaders are of the miserable caliber of a Ted Cruz, a Donald Trump along with his progeny, a DeSantis, who cares naught for safety of citizens, only on the importance of defying rationality, appealing to the basest of bases, encouraging more to lower themselves into that category. A Taylor Green who is an open supporter of QAnon, a denier of truth, of the rebellion. A Matt Goetz who is simply disgusting!

Nope, our social and political Waze and GPS systems are majorly on the fritz. The big question here is whether there remains hope of remediation, or repair, or is the breakdown too intense, too deeply enmeshed within the system and cannot be denied any longer. It is an evaluation we must make and must be honest while doing that. Then we must make a choice - ceding control or resisting, fighting back against this vicious tide of cruelty, of regression, of hate, of anti democracy, of suppression of rights, of DANGER AHEAD!! warnings in screaming red letters being ignored or even cheered.

Time is running out. We must make a turn in our directions. We must remember our roots, our paths till today. We must ignore the new mechanics if they are so wrong as to destroy us, who we are, what we are supposed to be. Nightmare or dream, reality or not - your choice, but that time for choice and reversal of wrongly stated directions is growing ever slimmer. Tick tock. Tick tock.

Who is the "enemy within" - the accused - the Democratic party -  or the accuser - the GOP?

 

“We believe the right to vote is sacred. When more people participate in our democratic process, we will all prosper,”

The right to vote is key to it all, to the directions we are getting  or rather the misdirections we are getting. Tick tock again, folks. Tick, tick ,tick.