The question is, with attitudes that we now have, exactly where are we going? We had better be aware and alert else we engender permanent change in the firmament of our skies. Then where do we go? Not any place good. For sure. We are already well on our way to that change, those changes actually, a land grab of our values, of the promises of this country. What do we do in turn? Nothing really, other than allow, give way, to the continued deterioration of this nation, a new trend of the times, along with retention of old hatreds, evil thoughts and deeds. Thinking? Nah. Ain't that the sorry truth of it all?
"At this point, we’re living under corporate and medical fascism. This is tyranny. When do we get to use the guns? No, and I’m not — that’s not a joke,” asked the audience member. “I’m not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where’s the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?”
How does one deal with a nation that now has someone asking such a question, in all serious righteousness? I could not think of an answer that would shock that person and his supporters back to sanity. Are we, as a nation, too far gone over the horizon to return? Are we? I shudder at the thought, equally as much as I shuddered at the question. My lower jaw had to be hauled back in place after the shock of reading about that.
Must 'it' go where it is going? Are there no voices of inspiration, particularly during times of great national, even world, stress? Not so. "What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who live in it after we are gone? (Winston Churchill)
There we have it, but actually we do not, no longer. Can we haul it back, haul the nation back onto a plain of reformation, of healing a broken state of unity, more like a now state of disunity? The answer I want, plead for, strongly desire, is that of a yes, even a tentative one. However, what is heard more and more, louder and louder, is a growing chorus of 'no'. Where are we going from here?
“trying to provoke you and everyone here,.. “They are trying to make you do something that will be violent that will justify a takeover of your freedoms and liberties, the likes of which we have never seen.”
We are sinking ever deeper into a moral morass with strong influence and provocation to the negative. Our supposed leaders incite violence, talk words of hate, and then beg relief when the hatred turns towards them. Relief from a government against which they actively incited insurrection! Sorry, folks. Remember the cake and the eating of it? See Marie Antoinette if you have forgotten.
To finish the job to complete the ruination of any hope into the future, refer to the multi page article in the NY Times about Israel. Once again - "What the hell!!!" Will there ever be a time when Jews will no longer be a recipient of hate, unbalanced, insane, putrid, malignantly unbalanced hate? Why is it that other nations are accepted as arbiters of their own country border lines? The attacking nation or the one invaded keep or lose the land in question, depending on the outcome of the fighting. And it is accepted, perhaps after some pathetic words from so called leaders. So why, why, is Israel different?
War after war, declared or simply there, wars of survival against a foe which has a mantra of "From the river to the sea Palestine will be free." Meaning that the Jews, the Yahud, will be forced, real and implied, into the sea. It is not Israel that is being fought, but rather the continued existence of the Jewish people despite all that has been done to them, against them, over the millennia. It is ever ongoing, seemingly never to be lost to the darker side of humanity.
The very same Bible that Christian nations quote and hug to bosoms, the very same Koran that Moslems treasure, is the same Torah, the history of our nation, that the Jews hold dear. So why is everything within accepted, written in stone, other than the Promise - a land of our own. A land which never ever was deserted, not mentally, not emotionally, not in reality. Always there were Jews living in the land. Always there were prayers to return, even inside a synagogue hidden in a concentration camp. Always, the land of the Jews.
Oh, I can argue all day long and well into the night re the fact that Israel is the land of the Jewish people. From time immemorial. Palestine and Palestinians are a made up figment of political expediency, a convenient distraction for Arab states where the people live in poverty under repressive governments. Hence, keep those camps. Annoy the world. These people, few of whom actually lived in the land over the centuries, actually came during the Ottoman times or earlier, urged by effendi, landowners from Greater Syria, who wished for their land there to be farmed. Refer to the writings of Mark Twain and Pastors galore who visited the lands; read their reports of the desolation.
No flowering land of orange orchards and bountiful olive and fig groves. Those rusty keys they hold up as proof of ownership - sorry, folks, the landowners owned it all. And those keys? How many do you want, for they are found in droves in antique stores there. You, too, can buy one and maintain that the key is proof of your 'ancient' ownership of land that the dastardly Jews are stealing from you! Why the hell not, as the world is always ready to think less of the Jewish people. Read later on of the contrast to the lands bought, legally, that the pioneers, the refugees, fleeing danger and death, looking for a future, returned to the past, and rebuilt, again, their ancient land, their ancient home, long promised them by G-d on high, where there would be no ghettos, no restrictive laws, free to be and do, and just as much for the Arabs living within the borders. Simply look at the Arab citizens and see the truth - their advancement, the numbers in university, integral parts of the economy, in and of the government, the very armed forces of Israel, at the very top level.
So it goes? To where? Only when we can read and live the words of Major General William J. Donovan - "It's okay to stumble, as long as you fall forward." Only then will there be a positive impetus, one which hopefully can overcome the burgeoning negatives of our nation. One can hope. But one must also act, be role models for a better present and a positive future.
Not all is perfect - not in America, Israel, or anywhere in the world. Read this brilliant mantra of a teen murdered by his peers. “Yesterday was history. Tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.” Would that we all could live those thoughts. Would that hatred be vanquished. If only.......
If only.
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