MAYBE, MAYBE, MAYBE

  And then again maybe not. The Chantels' iconic hit, Maybe, is the showboat of "if" reasoning, taking the situation as is, backwards analyze what might have gone wrong and maybe, maybe, maybe, change the state of being. Maybe, if she does this, or maybe, if she does that, maybe, maybe, maybe. However, in much of our 'maybe' thinking, we forget the other side of the coin. Maybe not. Maybe there is no changing things. Maybe we are totally lost in whatever situation we are in. Maybe there is not always a road back or a path to right wrongs, change things around so as to make a positive change in the status quo. Making a negative turn - that seems never to have any opposition out there, always someone who has that state of mind. Or lack of mind. Maybe.

So, maybe the spot-on assassination of Zawahiri was important. Evidently, the world had to hear that the USA will get ya' no matter how long it takes. Maybe. Definitely, the man needed to face his just dues, but maybe, in the longer run it is truly not as important as we think. The present of yesterday is now the past and what has been changed by that event? Maybe, it will cause some future terrorist to halt and ask if he truly wants to live with backwards looks for the rest of his life, and maybe not. No one thinks the bad will ever happen to them, or they will never be called to account for their crimes. 

You know the scene in a western where the horse of the hero gives a great big shudder, shakes his head forcefully, and off rides the hero, inspired by the encouragement of his best friend, his horse. Not quite sure if we can safely compare this country to a horse, though it is unfortunately true many of us have been acting as if we were the horse's rear end! In fact, many, too many, have been getting daily, myriad concussions every time they sat for certainly, they were not thinking with their heads!

Certainly, when the news reports on yet another moronic, trouble making statement of an obviously unbalanced man, giving more airtime to his outrageous lies, we are maybe taking another step toward doom. Maybe, but how else can we think when logic and truth have almost disappeared within the realm of politics, worse than ever. A former President, while in office, actually coming close, ever closer, to being charged with sedition, with treason against the very nation he was to safeguard. He and his enablers, just as guilty, smeared by the same tar brush, were and continue to be a "clear and present danger to this country" and its survival as a democracy.

Charges have been brought against smaller fish, gradually climbing the fish ladder, the stink growing as we near the top, with that damned Cheshire cat grin on the face of that crude and danger enhancing man. Even out of office he continues to spin his ugly web of lies, even as he injects more venom into his captives. That poor woman, whose face, whose eyes, can make you cry, is maligned as "loaded up" with drugs. No, she was most certainly not. Nor is Russia a country which "hates' drugs - not when it supplies them with much needed cash capital, and the 'crooks', when caught and sentenced, run the damned sites of incarceration. So maybe, you can tell me how to get this man to shut his mouth. No one needs to hear his acidic commentary nor smell, hear, and see the third degree burns he is causing to the integrity of our nation's fabric. No maybe here. None. At all.

And the debate continues. Should he be called to answer for his crimes? Maybe. Should he be let go on the basis of possible violent reaction by his MAGA supporters? Maybe. Maybe not. The eternal question and state of mind of every fence sitter, afraid to commit, afraid of what might, maybe, will be, but then again, maybe not. Maybe it is better that we kind of try to ignore him and maybe, he will go away. But thinking of the class cutup making even more noise and disruption to gain that fading attention, sticks in my mind. This man will not go away unless he is made to go away - like by incarceration, in a federal prison and not a country club. Where there will be no more press interviews. No more outrageous statements. No more trouble making and should his backers insist on violence, well, no maybe there either. Return their wishes to them and for once and for all, give them what they desire. Trouble on crack! Finish this for once and for all.

There is no maybe not here. No one NO ONE is above the law. We cannot send a message to all future and present-day criminals that position in society offers one a blanket pardon, immunity, from all consequences of wrongdoing, of lawbreaking, of treason! This cannot be allowed, for then this country will certainly fracture, certainly collapse in upon itself. The immediate aftermath will not be pretty, but then again, neither will the other choice be any different and certainly we need the one which will allow for a future of hope, of achievement, of reality, of facing problems and doing something about them, something good and right, not negative and worse than nothing! Our current status quo.

Maybe we will come to our shared sense, hitch up our pants, tighten the belt, batten down the hatches and do what must be done. Take the cod liver oil like grownups. Realize that sometimes, no maybe here, good costs. Dearly, at times. But if we waver, if we count off, chant, an unending litany of maybe, maybe not, we will not only stagnate but will move backwards, faster and faster until we are out of control, out of hope. We must avoid that. No maybe, maybe not here either.

There are sparks of hope. While unfortunately many GOP candidates who support Trump, who buy into, at least publicly, his outrageous lies, who invoke religion as justification for their most egregious violations of religious ethics, have won places on the ballots, there are also the rejections of some by the electorate. Voters in Kansas have voted not to give the legislature the power to override a state constitutional amendment which states that the right to choose is a right - no maybe not there. Finally! Would that the rest of the nation follows suit. There is too much at stake here.

Maybe. Maybe not. At times one must make a choice, or one will be made for him/her. It is imperative that we make the right choice, no matter the difficulties it might bring, for the alternative is worse. Far, far worse. No maybe yes, maybe no there at all. No siting on that fence. Eventually that seat will hurt us, forcing us to make a hasty decision of the moment, not of thought. Not a good idea at all. Let the Chantels sing, a great song, but our time for singing and delay, for 'if' thinking is over. Time to take a stand. Time to stop looking at both sides, for one side is all we need to move forward. No maybe, maybe not. Only a firm decision to save this country from itself. Legally. Lawfully, fully cognizant of what we are asking of ourselves and for ourselves.