...Who's the ugliest of them all? Well, the choice can be simple or difficult, depending on if one believes in one choice winning the somewhat dubious first place or if one believes in multiple, tied winners. Oh, the glory of the plethora of qualified candidates. A wealth of morons, idiots, dangerous in their idiotic selfish, hate motivated behavior and statements- or lack thereof.
Christie calls Donald - Duck- a fitting appellation for the man who squawks oh so loudly but adds merely more toxin to the challenged atmosphere. His acolyte, DeSantis, deprived of his heir apparent crown, now flounders too, lost in his war on the Mouse, tarred heavily by his heavy tilt towards fascism. Nothing special with the other candidates other than their uselessness, their cowardice, their inability to corral the rampaging mustangs of their own tattered GOP. What is a leader if there is no one led?
Christie remarked that he knew Donald Duck was watching, but does he, along with the rest of the crazed and fractured GOP know, understand that the rest of the world is watching. Not so much the useless debate, but rather are watching this country decay, rot at its core, its unity and integrity dropping off the body politic at increasing rate and size of pieces.
We are losing our very soul and the chant of the 60's can be heard once again, reverberating in the air, finding long lost friends and cousins, awakening old souls, reminding all that "The whole world is watching. The whole world is watching." We came through that particular time of existential threat, but this time around ... doubt hangs heavy in the air. All the negatives are growing, enlarging, fed by the disunity and fractures.
The lunatic inmates within the Heuse are now running the show, their caretakers, McConnell and McCarthy, absent at the out of control wheel. All a consequence of their own lackluster responses, using rotting ropes to contain the escaped inmates, as the ropes broke and the inmates gained the upper hand. Their influence and power grew, diseased, corrupted, yet successful Pied Pipers. The leadership of the GOP lost control; we are going to be in shutdown in two more days at a very critical time in history. The children are reveling in the success of their tantrums, the parents having proven unable to measure up.
The rest of us? We, for the most part, are watching from the sidelines, shaking our heads or not even doing that. We believe it has nothing to do with us and this aberration will pass. No. It. Will. Not. Not if we insist on continued occupation of those rotating thumbs upon which we are perched. We have wrapped ourselves in cloaks of willful blindness, deaf to the cries of our founders, of our champions of liberty, of the world, appalled at the devolvement of their country.
We have lost our understanding that no one person, no one country, can remain isolated from others. We are presently being run by those who wish to return to that outmoded, many times failure. A policy of island theory, which has led to wars of great violence, loses of lives, and loss of structure. We have had to rebuild in ever larger areas. Can we do this again in the face of the increased powerful weapons available and an abundance of madmen, madwomen, willing to use them? I think not.
So, are we ready to lose it all, to consign our fate to the likes of Greene and Gaetz, of Bishop and Jordan? Who think using archaic laws, canceling salaries of federal workers is the answer, the golden key to success at blackmail, the thinking and behavior of criminals. For that is what they are. No veneer, no disguise is impervious to the bursting of truth from where it has been buried. But will it be too late? Will we already have lost, gone beyond the point of any redemption, return to what we are supposed to be? A proud, strong, confident democracy, a model unto the world? I grow ever more doubtful, very, very worried.
I do not even know if there is remaining sufficient time to get together, raise our voices, insist on fair voting laws and access, stringent control over our legislators and judges, accounting for actions and appropriate consequences. Surely, I hope, I pray, there are enough honest and honorable people willing to assume positions of responsibility. However, no success unless accompanied with and empowered by a group of tight determined togetherness. Strong and determined in their goals. Motivated by thoughts of the future for the coming generations, unwilling to write it off.
Only together, in a deep and true understanding of where we are, how we got here, and how we get outta' here, can we effect so crucial change in a proper direction.
Together folks, together. In concerted, united, determined, knowledgeable effort.
Together.
Tomorrow. Today.
And together.
Only and always together.
Together, always together.
United for good.
Together.
Together.
We can heal the nation.
HEAL THE WORLD.
HEAL YITZY!
Yitzchak Elimelech ben Chana Sarah
May he be granted refuah shelaymah bimheyrah beyameinu.
AMEN. AMEN
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