There have been many times of late when I have desperately ripped my glasses, now necessary to read, off my face in a hope that what I think I read was not actually so. Cleaning them, in that hope, I am disappointed when I read the sentence or paragraph again. People actually have lost sense of right and wrong, of common sense. Now everything must be written down in words of one syllable or less, so that our massively undereducated population can understand that which should already have been understood. Implicit understanding, comprehension of the sensible, is nowhere to be found.
Why has the rate of gun discovery been rising exponentially at the airports? Since when has it become okay to take a gun, with ammunition loaded, on a plane? Since when has it become okay for a seven-inch tool - i.e. hammer, chisel, pliers, knife, been okay to take on a plane? Why are people still getting on the TSA or Clear line when they are neither members nor approved? The system is not exactly newborn! Why are people still taking off shoes on TSA lines wasting everybody's time? Why would someone wish to take fertilizer on the plane unless there is a dark wish behind that decision. Gardening work is not truly befitting the interior of a plane in flight! Duh!!
So, I ask, is it the water we drink, the air we breathe, the plastics in our lives and evidently in our bodies and brains as well? Is it that we are devolving as the eons go by rather than evolving? Have we met the peak and are now on the downside? Is our educational system and/or our attitude towards education and teachers at fault? Are we making the situation any better when we censor, censor and censor some more, destroy libraries and access to literature and thought provoking materials? Do we pay our teachers in so many areas so inadequate a salary that becoming a teacher with all the abuse attached is now to be avoided? Have we taken the creativity out of teaching, chasing the best and brightest out of the profession? What would explain the egregious misspellings, poor sentence structure, almost illiterate written expressions and spoonerisms invoked when speaking? Are kids dumber than we were or are we demanding less of them, making excuses for their errors, excusing them from some hard work and rules to follow?? Whatever!
It is indeed frustrating. It makes one worry when we read the oh so clearly falsehoods and the great numbers of people who insist on their truth, ignoring the proof right there! There were tourists in the Capitol on J6. There were no police officers killed that day. Sandy Hook dead children were actually actors. Trump is not demented nor crooked, nor absolutely the worst President ever. DeSantis is not a fascist.
DeSantis, actually, truthfully, is a power hungry man determined to use the democratic system to achieve his goal of maximum power, beginning with his own armed militia responsible to only him, right here in the first fascist state in Ameria - Florida. Democracy will then go the route of the horse and buggy - dismantled, discarded, echoes of Hitlerian fascism growing louder and louder. Clearer and clearer. So obvious. But apparently not to some who lockstep enact all his oppressive, persecutive, rights denying laws turning back the clock to bad times, outmoded thoughts and danger to those who do not hew the party line - his lines.
Certainly, the people in DC are the same, enacting laws which flout the accepted law, the Constitutionally valid laws, the laws which protect the rights of the individual and promote a better, more responsible and responsive social milieu. Apparently, the GOP only invites in the crazed, the illiterate, the demented, the vicious and the incompetent. Those who openly lie and brag about it. Those who violate the ethics, morals and laws they are supposed to uphold. Boebert. Greene. Jordan. Scott. Perry. McCarthy. Scalise. McConnell.
The same for the judges appointed and affirmed by the GOP. They are obviously majorly incompetent and unfit to sit on the bench, never mind ruling on life changing, life affirming laws. Yet these ethics and laws violating judges are allowed to remain on that same bench despite their flagrant violations of accepted rules, stated or implicit. To wit - Thomas. Kasmaryck. Kavanaugh. Barrett. And so many, many more.
Yes, there are some real doozies on the Democratic side but for sure, not as many, and less vocal as time passes. We hear little from AOC or Tlaib and when they do speak, their coverage is minimal. Nope, it seems the GOP is the fly in the soup that needs to be discarded. Better yet is the slogan that a good friend introduced me to. So apt.
"Grow some dope. Plant a Republican."
Oh yes, this world of ours need major fixing, far more than a handyman can undertake. We need some new statesmen and women. We need those who believe in public service. We need those who know what the world is, what must be proposed and achieved, what must be improved, brought on line or eliminated. They know that we must indeed strive to
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
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