... not blowing in the wind, though winds are often used as metaphors for things 'acomin' down the tracks. Well, we certainly have something speeding down the tracks towards us and it is not a good one. It bodes worse for us than the mistrals of France, the chamsins of the Middle East or the Santa Ana winds of California. It is, in fact, just about the worst wind(s) we can get, growing stronger all the while. Whose fault? Well, for that, my friends, just look around for the closest mirror, no need for full length. The face will do. There, in that mirror, in the mirrors of America, you will see the enablers of these destructive winds, already over the coastlines of our country, already sowing harm, danger, and discontent. It is upon us - by us.
For years already I have been shouting, warning, pleading with readers to understand that America as it is, a democracy, a leader of the Free World, as a beacon of hope for so many, is living on borrowed time. We have never ever in our history been at such a point of peril, of dissolution. Not even the Civil War I rivals this as now, in Civil War II - and make no mistake about it for it has already begun (Jan. 6, anyone?) - will be, is, worse. It has those on the "Union" side also wanting secession.
I never jumped the shark. I was early on with the warning, with the understanding of what would ensue, what did ensue, what is growing, along with all the dystopian aspects of Trump and Trumpian supporters. In fact, it has gone way past what most people think. It has developed a life of its own, ugly, jagged edged, opposing all those who refuse to accept it as our future, and do not hesitate to use violence as as tool. With, or without, Trump himself. At times he is almost unnecessary, even been booed by his own people.
Despite that gladdening one's heart, it bodes ill for the rest of us, for this poisonous movement has developed a momentum of its own. It feeds on the ignorance of people. It feeds on their irrational hatreds. It feeds on Lies, a huge foundational column of its movement. These Lies have been diagnosed as "disconnected from reality... a kind of social pathology". It accepts, as written in stone, crude, dishonorable statements such as the speaker who told an absolutely quiet, accepting audience, that 9/11 was CGI at the Towers, never happened, and the Pentagon was hit by a missile of ours, to hide missing funds. You might say HUH!!!! but the audience believed this!!! Believed it!!!What else will they believe? What else can be fed to them all the better to serve us up as the dish of the day.
"The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War." says a neo conservative. Horrifying, warning, these statements continue with the prediction that there is a "reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves." I agree with this statement, this prediction but beg to amend it. Not a chance any longer; it is upon us already. Federal authority is being challenged with the violence against school boards for imposing a mask mandate. Crazed Trumpian creatures threaten bodily harm and in fact, inflict it already upon those whom they oppose.
The question is what can be done or is it too late? I am approaching the point of belief that it is well past any possibility of returning to a pre Trump America. The poison has seeped too deep within the misguided, all now willing to accept as written in stone all the harmful aspects of a Trumpian world, all its crude, even murderous, authoritarian rules, its distemper, its mockery of all the hopes and dreams of humanity. Yes, all, for think not that if one is a white, male, WASP that you will benefit. Wrong. Only those who are within the cabal; the rest of all - go to hell. Your reward for suborning treason and hate, for supporting ignorance and lies.
The fact that Trump now walks free, despite all his crimes, despite his continuing criminal behavior, despite all the growing evidence - how shameful it is. All the creepy things that went on in the White House are exposed by its very actors who now think their tell it all books excuse them from the guilt in enabling this, in contributing to the down fall of America. As one pundit said, "Someone needs to answer the question for us what happens when our Department of Justice, when our law enforcement authorities, decide they will not enforce the criminal laws of the United States?" We hear no answer. Only that deafening silence, and stifling inactivity.
The NY Times, much as I hate its bias against Israel, has told the truth re Trump and related felons, conspiracies, even as Trump rages on, slamming their Pulitzer Prize re Russian interference in the 2016 election. They title an editorial "Jan. 6 Was Worse That it Looked", detailing all that led up to it. So it was and so it is and so it will be unless we wake up and do what must be done. Else we are lost as a country. We are lost as a people. Simply lost and bereft.
Folks, this is a terrible time. People say they do not listen to the news as it's too unpleasant. A dictatorship in America, a loss of the USA, is even more unpleasant. Reality is as reality does and being willfully blind, ignoring things, hoping they will go away, is unproductive at best and at worst, well, we had better not go there. And yet, we are right there, speeding down that destructive road, the winds howling all around us, and all my fellow Cassandras , male and female, are falling by the wayside, run over by the angry ill winds of a Trumpian future. Woe upon us.
These winds are no good. They are vile, plain and simple. They are here because we have allowed them to be here, to exist, to feed upon us, to grow ever stronger, ever more destructive, ever uglier. We have done this. It is said that a people have the leader they deserve. Is Trump or Hawley or Cruz or Abbott or Greene or McConnell the leader we deserve? If so, we are lost. Man the boats! But where will the boats go? Where will there be safety in the world if the United States of America goes under? Think on that.
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