Well, I guess the Chief Gnome read my blog yesterday and decided this was a perfect time to raise the stake, put gnomic feet to the pedal, to the floor, and make huge headway in tampering with our lives. Of course any sane person realizes these "gnomes" are but our own missteps, mistakes, and unfortunately for us, deliberate steps taken by those who would destroy our country.
It boggles the mind when one pays attention to the news. 70 million people remain unvaccinated, but will gargle iodine!!! to remain safe. Nuts to the nth degree, but here they are. Here they remain, a drag on our economy, a drag on our healthcare, and personally, I feel they should remain last on line for healthcare. They have put themselves exactly where they are. Willfully. Stupidly. Nonsensically. Yet there it is.
It boggles the mind to see the ridiculous steps taken in this bad news world of ours. People turn away from the news, thinking magically, like toddlers: if I do not see it, it does not exist. Well, wrong, oh so wrong. Not only will it be here, but the dangers it poses for this country, indeed for the world, for all, for individuals, will grow apace such as we have not seen before in this country. Woe upon us.
We will reap what we have sown through our own ignorance, through our own hatreds, through the manipulations of those who are driven to retain power, the reins in their dirty little hands. Yet again, woe upon us. It boggles the mind how so many people do not see what is happening - or perhaps is it that so many, too many, actually wish to sign over their rights in and of a democratic state?
Perhaps it is the fault of our genes. We willfully engage in dangerous activities all the while the existential dangers grow exponentially. We literally jump into "wild swimming" - into lakes, oceans, rivers, where the dangers are rife, be it the temperatures that will give us almost immediate hypothermia, or the rocks that await the head approaching it, of the bacteria within or the chemical runoff from upstream or sewer discharge, yet pay no attention to the vipers in our midst, the real dangers they pose.
It boggles the mind how people talk of the Big Lie, doing little to truly discredit it. It follows the warning of Martin Luther who said all those centuries ago that "A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes." How prescient. How applicable to the atmosphere of the very air in our lives today. The Big Lie of Trump and the Trumpian world continues to ravage and savage this country, putting our very survival at risk. Yet on it goes, rallies, Trumpian hot air, his dirty little sniffs that turn the stomach. It boggles the mind. It truly does.
"Our country will not survive this. Our country will not survive."
So spoke Trump. Rare words of truth even though he shrugged off his responsibility for this dire prediction. Even as he is indeed the Pied Piper in this truly twisted campaign of his.
There are "signs of a gathering storm", feel "the instability in the air" but "ignoring the threat". The words of others, even as they mesh with my own thoughts and concerns. Here is the actual possibility, being spoken about freely in the Big Lie world: "elements of the GOP are actively working to subvert future elections through laws, regulations and propaganda efforts. Snyder quite realistically described how a presidential loser could be cast as the winner in 2024. "That is what's happening right before our eyes right now," he said, "and we're just too cowardly to look at it." If we do not address this, do not take it down before it actually happens, then 2024 will be the last free presidential election - if even that - in the history of our once vibrant and vital democracy. "Requiesce un pace."
Rest in peace? Can we? Will we? Is it inevitable, this collapse of the best dream of humanity? Is there no hope? Will history report it as the colossal failure of the people of the United States of America, failing to insure that we stay united, that we eliminate the enemies within, deny them the ability to undermine this country and its democratic underpinnings, dishonor all the blood shed to insure its survival.
It boggles the mind. It truly, terribly, unfortunately boggles the mind.
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