Are we caught up in an eddy which threatens to overcome all defenses and bear us down to the depths? And what depths are awaiting us? Can we resurface from there? Will we emerge sane, whole, changed, but not in a negative manner? One hopes. One prays. However, like it or not, we here in the USA are finding out, much to a sane person's regret, that the good ole USA is not what it was, nor will it ever be again. Too much blood spilled, figurative and literal, too much animosity exposed, too much rot in the foundations and bearing walls. Rot reduction will be difficult, if nigh unto impossible to 100% and the cost will be immense in every aspect of the battle.
Yes, it is a battle. It is not the rather harmless silly dance of the loop-de-loo. No, it is a dance which carries just beneath the surface, the terrible costs, the breaks in sanity of a society gone mad, lost its moorings and is drifting, ever faster away from safety. The danger awaits nations and all people if they leave their guard down, if they fall victim to the mesmerizing tactics of the evil.
Unfortunately, we are at that stage and yes, Trump is evil. MAGA is evil. Those who continue to maintain their support for Trump and his ugly cohorts are either allowing true selves to emerge or are fooling themselves. Thinking that ok, he is a bad person, his traits are certainly overwhelmingly on the wrong side of the border, but, still. Still nothing!!
His supporters must admit the errors made, or still cannot see the truth of Trump. Biden finally spoke it out loud, though as far as I am concerned he did not go far enough. Semi-fascist? No- full blown fascism. Right here, in good old River city and every city in the nation. Time to cut the connections and fight, yes, fight, to regain at least a chance to reach something of what was and try to rebuild, to reform connections, to shake everyone out of the trees they have climbed, from the outer, weak limbs they are standing on, risking life and limb in stubbornness and misplaced pride and anger.
We must admit the truth. We must acknowledge that we have allowed the crooked politicians, the ones out for themselves, choosing extreme paths and tactics to gain adherents and publicity, to gain the upper hand and misshape our country into an unrecognizable, hostile shape. We must choose our companions carefully for the old adage of lying down with a dog and getting up with fleas is true enough.
Keeping company with extremists on both sides needs a scaling down or a pox on both your houses. The mostly crazed "Squad" of extreme and hate filled left is equally as bad and evil, as potentially harmful and dangerous as the extreme right wingers of the GOP, the vastly changed once respectable, honorable Republican party. WE, in the middle, of the middle, have ceded control to them and gained only trouble for all that.
Time to denounce extremists of both sides. Time to stop the repetitive nonproductive dance of loop-de-loo and get on with the practical so deeply needed right now corrections. The left must be reasonable in demands, understanding that change is needed, equity still needs fine tuning, though not over tuning. Most important, they must drop their hate filled diatribes and rants of antisemitism and anti-Israel content.
The right must realize that no, Boogaloo Bois is an evil movement, affiliated with a platform of antigovernment deeds, of violent overthrow of said government, a group of maddened, overgrown white men in long beards, cradling their collection of guns and shouting out with anger but nothing there. Only other misfits, affiliated rebels of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, ugly names for ugly people. No answers, only troubles.
We are with whom we associate. We must choose our social associates more carefully, more judiciously. Else, pay the consequences. Which we are. Most terribly so. We must bite the harsh tasting, acidic bullets we have been given and fight with all our might to stomp down these rebels, these anti-American Americans who cannot appreciate what we are, what we were and what we are supposed to be.
First things first? Stop these ridiculous dances and wasting time with Trump. Cut out those who would interfere. Throw out this Judge and her opinion, for what business and authority does she have to rule as she did? She is a spoiler, and we must root them out, unearth them from their hidey-holes, cleanse the government of traitors, and get us back on track.
Harsh? Yes. But I cannot see any other way. Rotten apples and such adages are there for a kernel of truth embedded in them. We have to weed out the rotten apples, apply the law with both letter and spirit and get the job done. All this infernal delay is hurting us very badly. Decisions that need to be made, sanity that must be restored, sociability that is a necessity of a working nation - all require restoration in proper format, laying out a return highway to America, the one we ask G-d to bless. Let us give Him something worthy of His blessing.
Soon.
Time is running out.
The dancers are tired.
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