Oops! Wrong holiday. Still have almost half a year for that one. However, the question of why something is different from what is usual, typical, to be expected is quite relevant now. Why is this time in history so different from other periods, yet at the same time so similar, almost mirror images.
Why is this election different from all other elections in the history of this nation? There have been times of corruption, of vote buying, of voting right denials but the threats today to elections, a bastion of to this country's democracy, are basic, simple, and calls violence, the spilling of the blood of fellow Americans fill the airwaves and print media.
Trump, that demented, tortured soul, who has already incited violence and open rebellion, now says he is "very, very, very probably" going to run again, Lord help us. His murmured date of announcement is Nov. 14, the day he is supposed to testify live at a J6 hearing. His followers, enemies of democracy, are setting aside three days, Nov. 14 - 16, so as to be ready to fulfill his barely hidden threat and encouragement, plans even, to make his statement "we can do it again" and "better".
What again? Not the election, I fear, but rather the rebellion, this time with more preparation, more open allies, including traitorous governmental figures, and rampant violence throughout the nation. Aided by his dumb as a stump Junior, nevertheless dangerous to and for us all.Will there be a replay, and if so what will be the end? Will we have a nation, of our own 'oblasts, a state of perpetually waged war that leaves nothing and no one left standing?
Not since the Civil War I have we faced such a threat, decimation of a nation as it was conceived and fought for. The question that should be ringing. clanging, knelling, is what have we wrought? How have we allowed this to happen? How have we chosen leaders who never ever understood nor aspired to be true leaders?
This weekend we celebrate a family wedding with other happy occasions on the horizon. How disconcerting, disturbing, to find that there was extra security on all Jewish institutions this weekend as the FBI had firm knowledge of a possible attack. attack! Planned. Even as some corporations cut off celebrities for blatant, violent, malicious, antisemitic statements, the very air is blue with the venomous outpourings of haters, with a dramatic rise in antisemitic attacks, physical and verbal. When? Till when?!
Does this not say it all?
"the reaction to anti-Semitism is not as knee-jerk as it is with a lot of groups. And I think the danger here is this crosses the entire political spectrum … all walks of people. Anti-Semitism is racism and racism doesn’t matter, it comes in all shapes and forms. This is a problem but this group is unique for one reason. They are uniquely targeted for conspiracy theories. So you don’t see this with any other group where they are pitted against, they’re pretty much made to feel that this group is uniquely more [of a] problem for things you don’t have. And so it continues to do that and sometimes it gets a pass. "
These haters target all, other than themselves, not understanding that in doing so they are setting the same limits, the same denial of service, the same disaster of authoritarianism upon themselves. Tired of the protesters of Medicare and Social Security, Biden called it like it is.
"Social Security and Medicare as a "promise" made to generations of Americans. "Socialism. Give me a break, what idiots."
Frankly, without Social Security and Medicare, we would be living in far more straitened circumstances and as for me, unable to pay the medical expenses, including horribly high drug costs, already difficulty to pay, well, I would be dead! Simple as that.
So yes, idiots indeed.
If only people would think.
If only.
Should we check for pigs flying - or despair that never will we see such a sight?
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