Oh, for men such as Diogenes, who had the determination to find a person of truth and honesty in a time when they were in short supply. Surely he would have felt at home these days, even as so many of us are on one side of sanity or the other. Worse, the situation does not appear to be dying a death; rather it appears to be gathering steam as it keeps on truckin' through the country.
How can it be called sane when eight months after a man lost, in a greatly deserved loss, that we are still hearing great gobs of dangerous crap as people continue to rant about "stolen" elections, miscounts, and reinstatement to office in August. Can't wait for August! Can you? This after a failed armed and planned conspiracy and attack in a futile attempt to overthrow our government. Truly, whence sanity.
Boggling the mind is the truth about this dangerous demented man these deluded people are worshipping in a return to days of idol worship. What is next? Sacrifice of first born? We have already sacrificed too many in this bizarre and insane campaign to keep the awful years of the Trump regime going and going, an evil energy bunny at work.
They support a man who is reported to have opined that "Well, Hitler did a lot of good things." A rabid fan of his, Greene, consistently uses Nazi references and Jews as she pushes her warped views and opinions. When one trivializes horror, then one brings the horror back. That is a lesson we have not learned nor retained, and why the hell not?
Why? Because somewhere along the line our education system failed, our religious institutions failed, and adults failed in their obligations to this country, to history, to the memory of the losses we incurred in a battle to become America, to follow the true dictats of her being. Apparently we failed in any effort to transmit, to internalize the ethos of this country, of the segment of it that values justice, care for people, who believe in the words of Emma Lazarus etched on the Statue of Liberty, who support the Declaration and recognize that we have a living Constitution, one that enables us to keep progressing in the right direction.
We have pastors who speak of the devil in positive terms as he wears the face of Trump and speaks his fallacies as truth. We have religious leaders who fail in their duties towards their congregations, even unto personal wrongs. They support violence, free gun society, the blaming of others for the consequences of their actions, the belittling of truth, even as some call the rebels of Jan. 6 anti-fa and Democratic party members!!! Or follow their god, Trump, in calling it an 'unfortunate incident".
Whence Sanity? Wherefore Truth? Certainly not in the everyday lexicon of too many Americans at this tragic point in our history. Not even during the split of the colonists as they opted for King or for the new country, or during the Civil War, not civil at all, where American killed American, not ever, have we been at such a crossroads.
How can we expect to come out whole, to choose the proper fork in the road, if the younger generation has not been taught to love this country even as they accept the reality of its history, the errors made, the errors corrected or still needful. They have been taught to demean this country either because it has done so much wrong, or has gone astray from the values of the off roaders, shall we say. Those who actually do not believe in this country, who would rather live as individuals and clans rather than do the right thing, accept the connection of America to and for the world's nations. Even as they spout and shout re their 'patriotism'.
Swalwell talks of the right time to litigate the rebellion. When is that time as the GOP fights against revealing the truth behind it, as they promise 18 months of carefully planned obstructionism,"18 months of chaos". Mo Brooks blames Trump for his speaking to the mob on Jan 6, but had Trump held a gun to his head, forcing him to say "that "today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass."
And so we go on, killing our own selves in the process. Many are still dying of COVID and why? Because they believe that a good Trump follower will never take the vaccine. So they die. And will continue todo so as long as they remain mortally foolish. As will our nation, unless we wake up, understand our debt to the history of mankind, correct our failing approach with the younger generation and just do the right thing - with truth and sanity.
Will we? Can we? Hard work, but well worth it. But will we? Whence Sanity? Wherefore Truth?
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