"WE WERE SIMPLY SHOT"

  These are the words of a survivor of a battalion of Russian conscripts, sent into battle without equipment, and died, as the cannon fodder they are so blatantly thought of and used, by Putin and ruthless frightened Generals, and compliant field officers.

"When it all started the officers simply ran away."

Ironic, is it not, actually brutal in understanding, application and interpretation, for we here in America, have also been shot. Not literally, then perhaps even more painfully and long lasting, a dangerous foreboding for our nation. We have been shot, by our neighbors, the bullets shredding our nation, our supporting pillars established in our newborn years. As for our officers, well, they too have run away, disappeared, left us, the citizens, leaderless, along with disabled motors and incompetent broken steering system. 

So we drifted, aimlessly, the currents carrying us hither and thither. Into the void came other leaders or those purporting to being so and they have steered us into dangerous waters. Worse is that while many of us understand the danger, can express it succinctly yet powerfully in very simple words, perhaps in desperation, exhaustion, turn to those fakes. These are the very ones who will exacerbate the situation, make things worse for us as we are progressively stripped of our rights, our hopes, our dreams.

“She’s lying all the time, ... “so I just don’t trust her.” (re Boebert) and so many more.

“I don’t like anybody now. I think our freedoms are under attack, I don’t like either party,” he stated. "I think Boebert is kind of crazy. But I don’t think the other party has any better options. I’m just tired of them attacking each other. I just wish they would do something for our country.”

“I just think she’s sometimes off the deep end," he continued. "She sounds like she’s trying to push that we need to be ruled by religious belief.”

"and may sit out the election."

" more focused on attention than getting stuff done. And rather than take the time to actually come to the table with her constituents or anyone who opposes her,”  " if I feel stuck on if it’s just between a Democrat and Republican and I don’t agree … I’m not going to vote.”

These are the words of folks, just like me and you, caught in a terrible, monstrous, ever growing, unstoppable eddy. It is swallowing all we have gained, stood for, represented in historical context and in simple daily life.

America is no longer. Not in its current configuration. Not with these liars, cheaters, ruthless, treasonous fake leaders leading us into perdition. The leaders we once looked to are gone, retired, resigned, simply gone with but a few remaining. 

Instead, we cheer the false, the dangerous, as we shift our worries onto them. Uselessly, for they are the foxes, and we are the chickens, trapped in our coops, defenseless, apparently, against all attacks designed to demolish the structure. Once again, hatred has become acceptable, even commendable. Tattered, but quickly morphing into political mantras, are the veins of hate, of bias, racial, ethnic, religious. The same mantras which have torn this globe apart too often. We have learned nothing from history. Nothing positive at all, even as the ways of prior fascist dictators are studied and emulated by those who would attain their hateful, threatening goals. No holds barred.

"Vini. Vidi. Vici."

I came. I saw. I conquered.

We have been told these were the words of Ceasar as he contemplated the conquered territory of Gaul. As humanity accepted blood and entertainment, sops to their hunger, physical, emotional, moral, and so we are doing today. We are turning a blind eye to all that is wrong - that we so deeply KNOW is wrong, yet on we go. We deny its relevance to us, tune out, turn off, abdicate responsibility, begin to chant the mesmerizing chants of mobs, and allow this manufactured current to take us places we should not be. 

We have designated ourselves as cannon fodder.

We have been seen, been conquered, and the enemy came from within.

We have one of our possibly last opportunities to change this current. If we vote the correct way, the one that will keep us in safe waters, if we unite and keep the truths of history before our eyes, and in our hearts and heads, there is a hope, a chance, to rescue our nation.

We can do it. 

We can turn back the tide.

We can.

If we truly wish to.

Do we?

Cannon fodder no longer.