MEAT GRINDERS

  Today, an old meat grinder is considered an antique, living behind glass doors or on display shelves. Once, it was a valued piece of kitchen equipment. It was also the source or instigation of competition amongst the four of us, as we competed for position of grinder assistant. It was actually hard work, but we loved it and knew we would be benefitting from the job in the very near future.

I wish we would all volunteer for a new meat grinder assistant position - the correct meat grinder, that is. In silly, even dangerous statements, many compete for a grinder position; however, their grinders are warped, turning out incomplete jobs, grinding the wrong way, ruining the product from the getgo. In fact, many of the grinder assistants turn out to be the actual blades, the "meat" they are grinding is ... us. You and me and American society. At times their grinders appear to be time machines which only work in one direction - backwards. The final product is ugly in appearance, in intent, and definitely harmful to the digestive process.

We are told we need, deserve a "fulsome explanation of the process so far," Perhaps, but that never ever appears. The mysteries of the government are kept behind a curtain, emulating the Wizard of Oz - and his selfishness and disregard for his believers - and flies off, leaving the Land of Oz abandoned to its fate. More and more promising to be a fate most decidedly to be unwished for. No matter who is at the helm of state.

Today, we abandon the wisdom of the people, the pithy, short statements that highlight the truth, the promise, rather than grind down anyone who does not fit the mold desired at that moment. She said, " Better to be short and shine that to be tall and cast a shadow". Today, all the leaders seem to be casting a shadow, not the shadow of a great hero, a rescuer of society, a grinder repairman of note, but rather the shadows of deniers of explanations, masters of carelessness and/or obfuscation, of promoting themselves to positions beyond all accountability, justification, explanation and viability.

The foxes, ravenous with negative desires and goals, of "revenge", admit all, openly. Ron Johnson and his role and purpose of J6 talks loud and clear in an interview. McCarthy is deep up to his neck in his perverted attempts to destroy the government and along with it, the surety and reliance of the American government, threatening to force this nation into financial default, following along, close behind, the moral default already devastating this nation. 

Even as nature gives in to the changing, confusing world, polar bears attacking people in a village, we are attacking our own. Cut the budget. Cut entitlement programs, take away medical, financial supports of elderly, already living in a very constrained financial world, and as for the social safety net for those in need, ha!!

Hypocrisy is rampant. Santos, the liar, quotes MLK,  “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

McCarthy lets it roll right off his forked tongue, " Who wants to put the nation through some type of threat at the last minute with the debt ceiling? Nobody wants to do that." Uh, mirror anyone? 

Gosar, Scott, Greene, Perry, Boebert, and other creepy traitors who denied election results, are appointed to important committees which set the parameters and perimeters of the government. People who follow, still, this maniac.  "... my 'Prosecutor' is a Radical Left Trump HATING Lunatic, whose wife & family get a perfect '10' for spewing Trump HATE, & whose 'friends' are the most evil, angry, & disgusting Marxists & Communists in & around Government?"'     All we can expect is trouble on the hoof.

And meanwhile, the war in Ukraine carries on, the country is a pile of blood-soaked rubble, and the proxy war is heating up as Putin reveals his secret weapon, a la Hitler and his V2 rockets.

 Is this our future? A giant, malevolent meat grinder with twisted grinders at the handle?

Vegan, anyone?

A ruler like this?

"I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and the quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood."

Elizabeth I on the eve if her coronation