TRUTH, JUSTICE, THE AMERICAN WAY?

  It's a fact. Truth. One can never find a superhero when one is needed, oh so needed. Remember those days of yore when our heroes were so easily identified, found reassuringly in every comic book? Every comic strip in the newspapers? Aways able to somehow pull it all together, no matter the difficulties, and truth, justice, the American way, were more than words. It was a mantra of a generation or two. Or the illusion of it was the mantra, but it was there. 

There remained a sense of altruism. Peace Corps. Teach for America. So many causes which readily found eager participants. Kennedy inspired an entire generation to participate in the running and improvement of this country, to aspire to public service to give, rather than just take. When he and then his brother, RFK, were shot and killed so violently and publicly, the rot began. And here we are. Seeking, searching, desperately needing, a true hero, one seeking, representing, truth, justice and the American Way. Or at the very least, allowing us to maintain a convincing facade of it.

Unfortunately, today, the running of this country has been allowed to fall into a conglomerate of the greedy and selfish, ignorant, deluded, misled, and simply just 'wrong' people. There is a growing miasma of stink around this group, yet here they are, still shouting filth, still maintaining that lies light the road before us, all the while ignoring the sulphury odor of Hell spreading throughout the globe. The forecast? Grows grimmer and grimmer.

How have we allowed, how has it come to be, that those running this country are the ones who escaped from the asylum? Greene, with her ignorance - "Marshall law" indeed. Try martial, moron! Cawthorne and his disreputable reputation, to put it mildly, flouting laws all the while, and again, tries to carry a loaded gun through security at an airport. Mcarthy, joined with the likes of Greene and others who openly defy the courts, refuse subpoenas, or when pushed to the wall, they all claim they "do not recall" or it was the fault of their aides who posted those terrible things", or the videos, the recordings, were all spliced, faked, and their noses rival Pinocchio's at his very worst!

We grow closer and closer to an apocalyptic world, a variation of a Mad Max movie. Only this world will be real. Terribly, awfully, horribly real. One of the most frightening things for me is when I see my words, my fears, my predictions, begin to appear via the words of others, those who know, who are or have been in positions to indeed know the awful truth of our present reality and what the future reality will be unless we do something! Why do we prognosticate? Why do we maintain this quicksand, nourishing it, even as it swallows us along with all the hopes and dreams we had. Where indeed, is that superhero? We so desperately are in need of one, any which one, but the skies remain empty of salvation.

Nope, the rescue falls upon our own shoulders. We must realize that, accept the blame and begin to root it out, smother the sources of nourishment of the oh so wrong reality, and dig deep down within our deepest depths and find the courage, the energy the acceptance of truth, as truth, and act. Forcefully. Powerfully. Deny these criminals, these traitors, these cowards, their moment in the sun. Let them feel the true weight and power and justice of the law. Quickly. Time is growing short for rescue.

Heed the words of Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

"If this is left to stand, if there is no answer to this aggression, if Russia gets away with this cost-free, then so goes the so-called international order,"

"And if that happens, then we're entering into an era of seriously increased instability." ... that there is "much greater than Ukraine" at stake in Russia's invasion —which has already left thousands dead and forced millions to flee.

"What's at stake is the security of Europe," adding that Russia's invasion "is the greatest challenge to the security of Europe since the end of World War II."

Read them again and understand the import of those words. Truly absorb, internalize that meaning. Know, feel, the threat not only to Europe, bad enough, but to us, America. There are no longer any true boundaries. We are all interconnected to a degree such that it is just about impossible to ever remain aloof from the rest of the world. Where is that hero? Must we import Zelensky?

Need more convincing? Read these words of Gerard Baker, an editor at large at the Wall Street Journal.

"... many prominent Republicans and major donors don’t actually believe Trump’s election lies and would love for him to “go quietly away.”

“It is a desire expressed as fervently in private as it is assiduously and dexterously avoided in public,” said Baker, 

"Republicans worry Trump leading the presidential ticket in 2024 will be a “lose-lose” situation and the GOP is “is too important a political institution to continue to be a vehicle for this grand deception,” 

“Will someone speak that truth at least?” Baker concluded.

"nuff said? Will someone actually be honest, bold enough in that mess called the GOP and speak the truth? Finally? At last? Be a man, a woman, and do the right thing? Then all we require is action and correction. And courage. And a return to the perhaps naive mantra of - 

Truth.  Justice. The American Way.