Perhaps the title of this posting should be called, following the style of many distinguished writers, "On Being Old", a paean to the disappearance of sanity, of righteous causes, and to the growth of nastiness, of the lies of a champion liar and the deluded souls who maintain his fiction, to the approaching, ever growing encroachment of enemies of the state on its very fabric of life. All to the confusion and sad amazement of a least one lady getting up there in age.
I do not know. It used to be, should still be, that one ran in an election and one either won or lost or even tied; if a recount was performed, that was it. Now, now, I do not understand. How many recounts does it take to get a GOP member to concede a loss? How many outrageous demands of recounts, growing in density,, spreading the poison of lies, of ruination of democracy within our borders, precisely how many will it take for the enemies of democracy to win - and we lose! Why is this happening and why are we allowing it?
We have a conference of dangerously off kilter people, many well known on a national level, not necessarily for good things! Goetz, a sleaze if ever I saw one, accused of sex trafficking - of underage girls, is cheered as he revs up the constant injection of poison into the life breath of this country. Hawley is writing a book - about what, I ask? About how he supported the insurrection, the attempt to overthrow this nation's government? Even as he gets cheers when he rants, on nonsense, dangerous nonsense at that.
20 GOP Senators are too "busy" to meet with the family of an officer brutally attacked while defending his country, died as a result, and they are too busy? Too busy to show support, sympathy, for a hero? Too busy to condemn these rebels, these traitors? Too busy to acknowledge that the GOP has turned not to the right, but way past, solidly into the midst of anti democracy crowds, into the midst of those who, no matter how long, how often or loudly they proclaim their 'patriotism', are the direct opposite of it and a danger to the continued existence of this country.
So what do we do? Do we shut them down? No, apparently we dismiss cases against them, absolve them of their guilt and complicity in that rebellion, downplay the coup attempt to a "riot"?! Even as at the same time a former aide of Trump states - "the bottom of the bottom of the crazies in the barrel." is where he took his cues. Oh dear, the GOP moral wimps, valueless characters, almost to the last one, continue to rally round, whether the people out there are doing the same or not. Evidently, this same feared man, this boogeyman of the GOP, has had to shut down his blog because - wait for it - no one is listening, no one is out there. Yes, despite his statement on that blog - get this - “In a time of silence and lies, a beacon of freedom arises,” a video introducing the platform last month advertised. “A place to speak freely and safely. Straight from the desk of Donald J. Trump.” I vomit! It is such a lie, that people see right thru it. That is, all but the GOP legislators on all levels of government in this country.
As for the Department of Justice, why they are too busy trying to sandtrap the investigations of Trump, the very same ones they torpedoed during his reign - yes, reign, for that was, and remains, his ultimate goal. We laughed, but that man does not kid about himself. Never. He means all of his out there statements. He says it and we refuse to understand that - or worse, believe in those very same goals. Maybe I am nuts, but so far every out there prediction and statement of mine, have taken place, uncovered,, or are becoming, the truth. Damn that!!
Rand Paul continues to rant re Fauci: the very same man who powered through the insults and threats thrown at him, the same man who pulled this country out of the depths of a pandemic. Despite all the attempts to shut him down by those very selfsame GOP nonthinkers.
I don't know. Maybe it is me. But there are so many others who agree, who think the same way, who recognized a rebellion the same way I did. We shudder at the people who cheer on a convicted criminal, Michael Flynn, who cheered and spoke about the imitation, American style, the goodness of, a Myanmar coup! Right there. Right here. IN this country. In print. At a conference. To cheers. And then I am told it is me? Uh uh! No way.
We, the country of America, its citizens, are facing an existential threat. Are we going to wake up, tie our shoelaces, hitch up our pants and ignite our brains, or are we going to continue to fight the sand shortage as we try to find enough to hide our heads within? We are running out of time. Tick tock. Whoosh! Goes the sand in the hourglass. Gurgles are heard as the country, its world revolutionary Declaration of Independence, its venerable Constitution, this imperfect country, still the best chance for the survival of the globe, and.... gurgle.
End story. Print. Oh, what we have done.
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