WORDS WORDS WORD!

  "The pen is mightier than the sword." How often we have read or been told about that adage. As kids we wondered, how could words be mightier than a punch or a slap? Adults were nuts! Well, we were probably correct about adults, and unfortunately too many of today's adults continue the "nut" path, have chosen incorrectly, foolishly, dangerously, but be that as it may, words are indeed powerful. Words, when examined, particularly in historical context and analysis, tell the story of humanity.

There are words of love and words of hate. There are words of hope and words of despair. There are words of encouragement and words of discouragement. There are words of praise and words of debasement. There are words of retrogression on the path of humanity and words of progress. 

The words we choose to use, to believe, to feel, are the words that lay out our history. WE are living historical figures, as much as Washington or Reagan, for we, the little people, can join together and change the words and the atmosphere they engender, their import and direction. WE have the responsibility to use words carefully, positively, rather than in a negative and/or hurtful manner. That is not always achieved, and I include myself within that crowd. Words from small - minded people can lead to big, bad changes. Reference- Jan. 6, Donald Trump, Putin, Ginnie Thomas, AOC, Omar, etalia. Too many to list, too many period.

Hateful words appear to be the currency of today. Harmful words are the favorites of bad people, of deluded people not truly understanding history and its imperatives and the power of words to instigate the bloody use of swords and violence.  That is where the adage comes in, for without the words, good or bad, there would remain a status quo, a static paralyzed humanity, unable to move forward or back. 

Incumbent upon us is the responsibility to history to interpret words, to explain, to understand their potentiality, for good or bad and react, behave appropriately. There are words of today's currency which drive me, for good and bad, for hope and despair. I ache at the potential of harm and abasement awaiting us and indeed already too much in play. Using words to intimidate too many from voting, from feeling free to do and say what is right. I hope, with every breathe I take that at least there are many now who are expressing the dangers of the day, perhaps too late, but we can hope.

 Perhaps there are enough of us to successfully halt the downwards, dangerous slippery slope from crashing us all at the bottom. Perhaps, just perhaps, there is hope in our recognition of the danger of damaged personalities using dangerous, inciting words, hopping on the bandwagon of anti-humanity, antiprogress. Luddites of the moral world. These are the people who would drag            humanity back to the swamps and caves, and the words always of hate, of violence, of sword and lance over pen and peace. 

Read the following collection of words and perhaps they will strike a spark of increased determination within one's soul to safeguard ourselves, our families, our nation, our world, our beleaguered planet. Inspire us to address progress, righting wrongs, protecting our environment. Simply doing the best we can do. Read and wonder why, at this stage of the game are we facing these manifestly existential dangers which we should have long ago been vanquished.

" ... argued that in just six days, America could see the beginning of the end of it all.

“A historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of,” he said. “But if that is true, a historian will say, what was at stake tonight and this week was the fact whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.”

“We’re on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away,” ... six nights from now, we could all be discussing violence all over this country. There are signs that that may happen. May God forbid. That losers will be declared winners by fraudulent election officers or secretary of state candidates or governors or state legislatures.

We could be six days away from losing our rule of law and losing a situation where we have elections that we all can rely on. ... the foundation stones of a democracy."

 "Shortly after returning home from the Insurrection at the US Capitol, the defendant sent a message [saying] 'I can honestly say I had a great time," she said. "Referring to the insurrection, Mr. ... said 'This is what we need.'"

“Done,” Graham replied without hesitation. (as he donated to Bolduc, a clear danger to democracy, a bigot, antisemitic to the extreme and a fascist at heart, soul and mouth.)

Graham again asked viewers for money to” stop the crazy." (Think about that.)

"Another batch of emails obtained from John Eastman shows Donald Trump's lawyers were counting on U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas to help them disrupt Joe Biden's election win, and their certainty raises new questions about his wife's role in the scheme." (A judiciary corrupted at the highest level!)

The terrible need for this statement, from the UN that is yet being challenged as wrong, refusing to see the truth as prominent as the noses on faces.

 IHRA’s working definition, “Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

Till when dear Lord, till when?

Will humanity ever learn the correct path, the proper words, the truth? 

You answer the question - in all honesty.