DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!

  Apparently, we are now living in a world where what was is no longer; what was understood is foreign to us in comprehension. What made sense is now nonsense, and what was right, well, where the hell did 'right' go? I know if I am confused there must be many more in the same leaky boat, and what the heck do we tell the kids? How do we teach them right from wrong, to have the courage to speak up when wrongs must be addressed and righted when it is so blaringly obvious that we do not do that anymore? Certainly, we are now walking, lost, in a new forest grown up around us while we slept or were somehow blind, even willingly so, to the drastically changing mores and conditions. No map available - not paper, not GPS, not Waze. Nothing.

First up. A topic that has gone somewhat missing from my blog as its place was usurped by the Ukraine crisis. Will get back to that a bit later in the blogs. But here we are in the unthinkable position wherein a sitting president (at the time) actually conspired with others to overturn an election and follow through with an almost unthinkable coup d'état. Here. In America. How could that be?

What happened to the country I began to study, love, with all its booboos, vices and virtues? Fifth grade began my love affair, through thick and thin, and sixth grade truly began a more comprehensive approach to our country, thanks to a wonderful teacher. While I knew we had made mistakes, would in fact make more, we did try. That was the most important detail of all, for if one recognizes what needs repair, one has already taken a step on the right path. 

But somehow, somewhere we went off track, lost our way in that new overgrown forest. It swallowed up loyalty. It ate the ties that bound us together. It made room for outright open fascists to find a place within a mainstream party, infected the government in every branch. Worst of all, it began to spread through the people of our nation, battered by the winds and storms of global events, led by a monstrous man, deranged in the same scale as Hitler, who touched upon their deepest, blackest, depths, giving them outlet for complaints and justification for their violence. 

Blind cult and personality loyalty displaced national loyalty even as patriotism was falsely invoked. The separation of the three branches of government, the best ever created, went missing as well, tainted by rabid polarization and partisanship. No longer was there one country seen through similar, somewhat different spectacles. No, for now there were two or even more countries struggling within the pillowcase, each trying its best to get out, never working together - and they all died. 

Criminal Conspiracy to defraud the United States

Common law Fraud

Dereliction of Duty

Financial crimes

What are those, you ask? Those are the categories within which our former president conspired to destroy our country, openly, brazenly, treasonous to the nth degree. Yet there he sits in his Mar a Lago and its duplicates round the world. He continues to spew forth poison from his forked tongue, bangs the iron cleaver ever deeper into the wedges of separation, now grown to huge, possibly overwhelming cracks which can never be repaired. Yet, again, there he sits, engaging in egregiously disloyal behavior, praising our enemy, engaging in a stream of politics which has no place within our political body. None at all! Yet there he is. There he sits as over 700 have been fined, incarcerated, penalized for their role in Jan. 6 violence and conspiracy. Yet there he sits. Even as his name, his complicity, his very open invitation to come down and join in; it would be great.

Much to our shame, much to our extrema danger, we are guided by men of cowardice, many of them actually complicit in the same treason, asking the fox to guard the hens. Even the supposed good guys are paralyzed, insisting they will not be pressured, supposedly worried over the consequences of pushing indictment and conviction of that most vile and violent traitor, Trump. Have we not learned that governing by fright does not work? Throwing sops out there does not work. Ask Marie Antoinette about that approach. Ask the ancient Roman Senators about that, about bread and circuses. It does not work long term and that is what we are in this 'game' for - the long term.

Appeasement of domestic or global enemies does not work. It does not work. Read that over again and again. Cowardice in defying the rabid hungers of fascists, of evil men out for power, more power, and even more, does not work. So why the hell are we redoing that same old meme again? Why? Why are we standing aside, allowing the enormously courageous people of Ukraine to fight alone, even not giving them the weapons they need to defeat that monstrous Putin, never mind adding the weight of active troops from NATO entering Ukraine. 

Personally, I believe that the opponents within the Putin government would break his world wide open if that were to happen, for they oppose his criminal behavior, his awful hunger, his violations of national integrity, would finally take action, not anxious at all for open warfare. They fear it as much as we do, as much as any sane person does. But no, we stand aside, giving weak, impotent 'oles', no substance beneath those words of the bystanders.

Where have all the soldiers gone, the song asks. Gone for graveyards every one - when will they - no, WE, learn? When will we learn that hesitation and weakness, prevarication, does not work, and those soldiers we did not wish to put in harm's way will pay the price for our inaction, wrong and  mistaken action, or lack thereof.

It just does not make sense. Have we all lost our collective and individual minds? Have we all lost sight of the difference between right and wrong, the necessity to defend the right, to stand firm, strong, against wrong? It just does not make sense!