PENS AND SWORDS, INK AND BLOOD

  "So I hear tell that once it was believed that "the pen is mightier than the sword". Words ain't stronger. Agin' the sharp end of a sword ?  Pshaw!"

Unfortunately, those who espouse that belief are blind to the very clear connection of words to those very sharp ends of swords. Words of violence. The perversion of words. The blood they encourage to be spilled, the very real and overt thread connecting words to the resultant violence - all denied in the camp of the red. The same camp which Greene, that incompetent, dangerous bigot, wants to know who supports it. 

 Unfortunately, boding no good for our country, almost half agreed with that thought while another large percentage thought it a good idea. A dystopian state within our borders, the validation of Newspeak, of 1984, of Big Brother, of hypocrisy as a national belief. A sword backed tenet of a new Bible, a new pledge of loyalty to a flag carried at an insurrection. A belief and system of government that belies the fact of equality for all. Hence people are not created equal, are not entitled to the same rights,  a new  statement in a new religion. A religion of false idols and the sacrifice of many for the benefit of the few.

"weird and wrong" to "pledge allegiance to a flag connected to January 6." " people got to get out there and vote."

“Republicans will not be voting in ‘22 or ‘24” if his election fraud hoax is not “solved” first."

Two opposing viewpoints. Which are we to believe? Which are people following, caught up in mob rule, canceling their own individuality as they cede control to the power of words leading to those swords awaiting anointment with the blood of the enemy - their fellow Americans. This Trump madman, this deranged, toxic person has now given us the best present ever - the absence of Republican voters. The absence of deluded individuals. The absence of hate filled madmen - and women. The absence of the coppery reek of blood round our voting polling stations.

The GOP at this point is manifestly anti democracy. Read that in the words of GOP supporters themselves. 

"My personal message to you is think about putting your ego in check for the first time in your life. Not because you’re not right about a lot of this stuff, but because for the health of the country and for a true healing… that’s the way we can do it."

 " apropos of nothing, Trump recalled the unproven rumor against him stating that he likes being peed on for sexual pleasure." “I’m not into golden showers,” he told the crowd. “You know the great thing, our great First Lady — ‘That one,’ she said, ‘I don’t believe that one.’”

See the crooked logic, the evil plans, the twisted minds, the filthy, fetid swamp of their minds, the shame they bring to our very nation. They have callously agreed to support lies, to install lies as facts and Truth, to support rebellion, to support hypocrisy, to render this nation moot!

"I was born at night, but not last night,"  

That is the excuse of Grassley for accepting the endorsement of Trump, the same man about which he stated a few months ago: 

"President Trump continued to argue that the election had been stolen even though the courts didn’t back up his claims," Grassley said in a Feb. 13 statement, following the Senate’s acquittal of Trump. 

"He belittled and harassed elected officials across the country to get his way. He encouraged his own, loyal vice president, Mike Pence, to take extraordinary and unconstitutional actions during the Electoral College count," Grassley said. "There’s no doubt in my mind that President Trump’s language was extreme, aggressive, and irresponsible."  

The pen or the sword? The ink vs. the blood? Unfortunately, I fear that blood will be shed for I see no rapprochement possible with people who refuse to think for themselves, who have no power of discernment, of distinguishing fact from lie with apparently no desire to do so. I see no possibility, or the rapid shrinking of the possibility, of healing our wounds and believing once again in unity, not two nations, one of Red and the other of Blue.

Sad. Discouraging. Ugly possibilities.

So others are now saying, worried, exactly where I have been living and saying for years. 

I hate " I told ya' so" - but there it is.

Would it were not so. Would it will never be.

Hope is dimming, the flame of the candle  sputtering.

Wake up, America.  WAKE UP!