TRUTH

   A small word, five letters, nothing fancy, but oh, the power of it. Defined as "that which is true, in accordance with fact and reality". Interesting, as for too many years we have gone without the truth being accepted, with false truth generated, again and again, an oxymoron to be despised. For too many years corrupt despicable politicians, among others, unfortunately, have perverted truths. Twisted so hard that truth, the very idea of truth became unrecognizable, held to be important only by those too weak to do what must be done. Morality, traditional values, all thrown to the wind, along with truth, to sit moldering away on the garbage heap of life.

 

The death of truth was cemented into place when we elected, and followed blindly, a false leader, one whose truth was simple - all for Donald; nothing for anyone else. That continues to remain so, even when the truth is blaring and glaring, in colors of red, bright blue and orange. They are clearly marked by classification - Confidential, Secret, Top Secret. To not 'see' that, one has to be colorblind and illiterate. Perhaps the second term is more apt, as Trump barely read anything, getting most of his 'news' from FOX, perverted media, and falsehoods catering to his massive overblown ego.

John Kelly says, “His sense was that the people who are in the intel business are incompetent, and he knew better,” ... “He didn’t believe in the classification system.” 

John Boltoen weighed in as well with his analysis.

“almost nothing would surprise me about what’s in the documents at Mar-a-Lago.”

“People were nervous enough about his lack of concern for classification matters that the briefers typically said, ‘Well, we need to take it back,’”. “He’d usually give it back — but sometimes he wouldn’t give it back.”

I ask again, how did this happen? How did a proud nation allow such rotten material to float to the top, allowing a braggart of no substance into a seat of great power? How did we continue to support this man, even now exposed as being the epitome of the deluded, naked emperor. Despite all the revelations of truth, the ongoing saga and shame of his behavior, his obvious traitorous deeds, betraying the people, violating his oath, all the ugliness of it - there he was with his stupid, dangerous, red hat. A symbol of hate, of falsehood, as un-American as one can get. Incitement of rebellion, of violence, of homicide, sedition, conspiracy, financial fraud, and so many other crimes that one's head spins.

11 sets of confidential material of great aid to the enemy. The acknowledged sharing of the information with declared and recognized enemies. Massive fraud on tax returns, the massive state of non-cooperation with the government. The use of 450+ times "same answer' as he opens himself up to huge financial consequence, but hoping to avoid the HUGE category of sedition, incitement of rebellion, violations of laws, criminal actions, all punishable by long years in prison. How I hope that happens.

It has long been said that every child born in this country can become president. Certainly, we have many native born in political seats. We also have had many excellent and patriotic foreign born, all welcome as long as they serve the country, rather than themselves. Unfortunately, we look into Congress, state officers, local officials, we see much deterioration of quality. We see people knowingly pushing lies of such nonsense, yet people believe. 87,000 armed IRS agents to bust into your home and do what? Force you to pay taxes? Shoot you and your family? This is sheer nonsense. Harmful nonsense. Yet on the spouting of this goes. On and on and on and on. 

Why? Because they want to. They might now recognize their delusion but are too ashamed to admit it, so they continue to throw good after bad and parrot the lies, deny the truths, and insist on keeping to our most negative roads and path.

The legislators of this country have separated themselves from the people. Hence the great division wherein the legislature, GOP dominated, will cancel the right to choose, even as the people vote to keep it in place. The same with other rights, as the GOP works overtime to return to a past rife with unfairness, inequalities, and harsh lives of no hope.

We are now, thanks to Trump et al, a nation of 52 squabbling, weakened states, who refuse to recognize the necessity of a central power, the must of a sense of unity, of country, that is beneficial rather than negative. How can we sing "I'm proud to be an American" when we see it perverted by those singing it at dangerous rallies?

Once, I was a proud American, proud to claim that nationality. Today, I hang my head in shame and despair, hoping, against all reality, that we can still pull ourselves out of all this self-generated muck and become the UNITED States of America once again. That process will be started, jump started the sooner we throw open the doors of courtrooms of America and punish the wrongdoers, those who instigated the whole mess. Beginning with Trump and all his book writing, oh now so blameless acolytes who served so unselfishly as they tried to maintain order and sanity in the Oval Office. A better way was to invoke the 25th Amendment and tell the country the truth! How's that for an idea? 

We are now being told that if we see the spotted lanternfly, we are to squish it. Squish it, as it is terribly harmful to agriculture. Well, we have human spotted lantern flies, and they too need squishing - imprisonment, fines, shame, calumny for the ages.

We must do it properly, out of a sense of true patriotism, an acceptance of truth. 

When the great statesman Cicero was to be executed, he told the soldier assigned that he knew he was doing what he must, but at least do it properly. That is what we must do.

Julian of Norwich in Revelations of Divine Love, 1670, probably from the time of plague in 1373, wrote, "He said not "Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased; but he said, "Thou shalt not be  overcome."

Nor should we in our quest for justice and the American way. Even if we have to try to emulate Superman! Heed those words of long ago, the title of an iconic song of freedom and justice and hope. 

We shall not be overcome - by evil, by falsehoods, by negative thinking and actions.

 That is not MY America. Not any of ours. Let us change that, so that our beleaguered beloved country once again is OUR America.

OUR America.

G-d bless us in our hard road ahead.