THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

  No, not the one we all know from our dear friend Alice, but a looking glass of the future, as someone from several centuries down the road peers through it. Asked to explain what was seen, the response was, well, it is unexplainable. What took place during the first three decades of the 22nd century is totally unbelievable, yet there it is.  Simply put, the most powerful country on earth, special from birth, serving as an example to so many who desired freedom from tyranny and a working democracy, America, went down a bizarro path to authoritarianism, open fascism, and finally self-destruction, taking along the world, the earth itself. 

Forgetting the lessons of history, America turned inward, turning to an outmoded policy under the name of America First, or some such name. It forgot that one cannot isolate on the same globe, that one thing affects another, no remaining aside or immune from the wars and the storms and the winds of hate.

The signs of rot were there, for all to see. The tragedy was that no one was willing to look, to peer into the inevitable failure of the path they had chosen and its dead ending for humanity. Yes, the quality of aspirants of government employment was definitely below par, a distressing trend. However, our structure of government had enough room for checks and balances, surely, enough to ensure the safety of the country, the integrity of its public servants, and do the heavy lifting. For sure, it was widely, tragically, thought, the idiots, the far out there, would not, could not, prevail against good old American common sense.

Along came Donald Trump, the first American President to be impeached twice, escaped consequences, due to the intransigent nature of a tattered and shameful GOP. More of this ilk rose to the top of the garbage heap of government, and the tragic train of events came into play. Openly treasonous, greedy, out for themselves, members of Congress, were voted into office by a confused electorate, unable to sift the truth from the chaff of lies. People with single digit IQs, dirty mouths, no souls and stone hearts, came into office, and our fate was sealed. 

America had lost her way, strayed too far from her foundations to return, to salvage anything from the mess. Fascist legislators and the governor of the first openly fascist state in America, Florida, sealed the fate of the nation, forging the way through brambles and nettles which sapped our strength, our brains, and all dissolved in a miasma of hate, baseless, violent, primitive hate. 

Sealed and settled.

 What could be expected from a governor who waged war against a mouse, one named Mickey, no last name, with dreadful waste of time, money, resources and blood, of the slain soldiers of the governor's private militia, paid for by the mistreated weary electorate.

The rest of the world followed suit. Bastions crumbled, small nation states arose and failed. Lives were cheap, resources slim and disappearing, and hope was a fugitive never to be caught again. 

At last, tired, broken, destroyed by constant explosions of ever more powerful weapons, a broken destroyed beyond repair environment, the world imploded. 

 Earth was no more. It is now studied as a lesson to be learned and taken to heart.

Where was G-d?

Were there not enough good people to avert the dooming of Earth. No chance at all?

Well, put yourself in G-d's place as He looked down upon the mess His creatures had made of His magnificent gift. No, He was tired, very tired, and could not gainsay the inevitable.

 Indeed, a lesson to be learned - before the fable becomes truth.

In the meanwhile, while we wait, work, to see if we can indeed salvage our future, take back the country, return to true values, think of a little boy who celebrated an important Jewish holiday, one espousing freedom, and the responsibilities that come along with it, unable to join in festivities, unable to recite the Ma Nishtanah, an important part of the Seder, the festive meal, and a duty delegated to the youngest at the table. 

How many other kids and adults and teens and the elderly are lying in bed, awaiting aid, awaiting a cure, an alleviation of pain. How many could have been cured if we had money for research and affordable medicine. How many!! But instead we build armaments enough to kill the planet many times over. Or we decimate our stockpile of weapons as another nation fights our proxy war. For a good cause, but could we not have found a better way?

In the meanwhile -  for the sake of all those in need, including my Yitzy, all sick children, all adults needing help let us raise our voices in sincere prayer and let the power of those prayers 

HEAL THE WORLD.

HEAL YITZY!

Yitzchak Elimelech ben Chana Sarah

May he be granted refuah shelaymah bimheyrah beyameinu. 

May he be granted a timely and complete healing.

May Hashem hear all our voices raised in prayer. 

Amen. Amen.