One day, hopefully soon though I doubt it, I will sit here in the early morning hours and type in a posting re local issues, of good things happening, anything but the filth, the lies, the danger that has become part and parcel of our lives for lo these many years, worsening day by day. A sad commentary on life.
Before the bad, a simple story re a good thing; there are some good people out there. Yesterday, on my way to a doctor, I got lost. An indicative landmark was moved, bollixing me but good. An unfamiliar area, phone forgotten at home, and late for the doc. Oy vey! Pulling into a shopping plaza, I entered the UPS Store and asked to use a phone. Immediately, a gentleman standing there pulled out his phone and asked for the number. The UPS guy did the same. The gentleman even indicated he would drive me to my doctor, but I had my car and mission was completed, albeit a tad late. There are good people out there. Unfortunately, the good they do, the little deeds that make life that much better, more tolerable, are drowned in the maelstrom of what is life today in this troubled country.
In any case, back to ugly reality. At this point I do not know whether laughing or crying is more appropriate. That we are having sessions, live, re the treasonous rebellion of crazed citizens, the horrific guilty persons who betrayed their country, broke their solemn oaths, who willingly, purposely, maliciously - it simply boggles the mind. A toddler mentality was inflicted upon this nation in their very much insane desire to change the election results, to follow Hitler's prescription of the Big Lie, and turn this nation upside down, legislate, battle, whatever it took to destroy it as a bastion of democracy, a place of hope to the world.
So now do we dance or cry or both. Hopefully, a long time coming, the guilty will be indicted, tried, convicted and imprisoned. Hoorah!! About time, too long in coming, actually. Too much time which enabled the spread of the poisoning of this nation's bloodstream. I understand the nature of this matter. Every i and t crossed and dotted, yes, but too much attention and stress on details slowed the process. Details can be aired at the proper time. Too many crooked, biased judges are tainting the judicial system, placing insane Party loyalty above loyalty to Lady Justice, endangering a final, just resolution to the chasm, the sinkhole swallowing the nation.
The nation needs rescuing. It needs relief. It needs time to take a deep breath and looks round, evaluate, accept the terrible truths of our present situation, what we have allowed, even desired by too many nefarious people. Chief among them Trump. However, he could not have done this alone. The horrendous turmoil needed people to feed its fires, to take it as far as they could go. Into that fire went true patriotism. Joined by books which contained content inimical to their fascist beliefs. Into that fire went people who displeased these fascists. Accepted, even wooed and lionized, were those guilty of moral and legal turpitude, excused in their misdeeds and crimes, in the name of POWER. Power not to or for the people, but power to the new wretched, abhorrent GOP.
Today the last hearing of the Jan 6 Committee will convene with more proof, new witnesses, and please, please, a knitting together of the criminals to their crimes, their treason, and begin the end of this corrosive acid eating away at the underpinnings of this nation. The pursuit of truth has befogged our view, hindered our priorities, allowing the world to careen like a drunken globe, the marbles within pulling, rolling this way and that. World order, sanity, decency has been greatly diminished. Two-bit dictators, confuse and conflate their twisted needs and desires with that of their respective countries, with tragedy the inevitable result. Every single day. Every damned day!
"Well, we have a bunch of new documentary evidence and statements that establish the central role that Donald Trump played and his overwhelming culpability in these events," "I don't think any reasonable, open-minded observer could watch what we're going to do tomorrow and what we've done over the course of these hearings, put it all together, and not come away with one conclusion, which is that none of this would have happened except for the will of Donald Trump." But the political coup and all of the events surrounding the attempt to overthrow Joe Biden's majority in the Electoral College, the insurrectionary violence, the mobilization of the mob, all of it flowed out of the will and determination of one man to seize the presidency and that's Donald Trump "
Let us finally put this issue to bed, turn over not a new leaf, but a new library! Accept the guilt of Trump and his enablers. Bring the deluded back into the fold and get on with the pressing needs of the world, the answers to existential questions arrayed before us. The truth is not out there, thank you Rod Serling, but rather right here, in front of our noses, ears and eyes and working brains. Time to recognize, accept, and react properly and promptly.
William Shatner said that during his trip into space, as he looked out into the great black void, what he saw was not mystery and awe, but rather death in the midst of all that darkness.
"All I saw was death."
We are looking at the great void before us. Either we light it up with justice deserved and earned, or we simply allow the darkness of a spoiled, hopeless humanity to engulf us all. Period.
Oh, for the simple joys in life and the simple feel-good stories. I wait. I wish. I hope. I pray.
Join me.
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