SO .... AND NOW ....

 Well, well, where the hell are we? What's next?  Who initiates the next step? Or has that step already been taken? Perhaps noticed or perhaps not noticed enough but read backwards into recent days and see its evidence of existence, growing in numbers and strength. It is there. It is becoming ever more evident, its light shining through the clouds of obfuscation of the Triad of Traitors, slight, but there nevertheless, growing in power and duration, day by day, even hour by hour, depending on the number and content of those illegal royal edicts coming through the odious tunnels of their promulgators.  

More and more people are stepping forward, defying the blatant illegality of those edicts. Their demands are refused with growing numbers in compliance defiant. They refuse to quit on themselves and on the American people. Make no mistake about it. That federal employee down the block from you, in your building, the next town over, filling the corner coffee shop - they are us. No one is exempt from the bulldozer Tyrants use to clear the way for them as they reap their ill-gotten gains of wealth and power. No one. Remember: the bell tolls for thee as well, only the timing differs.    We are growing an aura of encouragement to all those who oppose the fascistic authoritarian decrees, actions, and speech of Trump, Musk, and MuskRats, that Triangle of Traitors and Terrorists. An unholy trio. However, their clouds of dark obfuscation are thinning, their goals and harm becoming clearer, even as the light of resistance strengthens every day.  

This battle has barely begun. In fact, some continue to wrap this darkness around themselves hoping it will stop the Crimson Tide approaching, dampen the roar of its waves ever louder, wider, as obstacles before it disappear. That Crimson Tide of former and regretful supporters and voters for Trump, ever so rueful of deed and consequences, is growing apace. Crazed children of the MuskRats have been set free to wreak their damage, even as some have already resigned, refusing to do damage to their nation. People are coming to the realization that what they voted for is what they got. Exactly so. And now the chickens have come home to roost, and it is not a pretty picture. 

The red states are bleeding. Healthcare is compromised and difficult to access. Crops rot in the fields unable to be sold. Stores remain empty for the usual patrons have no money.  Schools deteriorate as teachers leave, seeking a more hospitable environment. Gangs of white power. grow in number and influence and violence. Opposed by other gangs. Children go to bed hungry with hollow stomachs and befogged eyes. 

We. We Americans enabled all this. We refused to hear the words and understand the meaning. We empowered the Triangle, that evil Triad, but we have also begun empowering the Crimson Tide, the legal bloodletting of that Triangle, the willful destroyer of America and Americans. If we stand together, we can defeat them. If we refuse their illegal demands, stand beside our judges so as to free them from fear and threats. and insist legislators to do their jobs, to serve the people, then the Crimson Tide will be successful and triumphant. It will defeat those who wish to destroy America and Americans. Only if we stand firm.    

We are in a damned poor place. If we do not act promptly, it will be ever more difficult, perhaps impossible, to wrest ourselves from the quicksand employed by the terrible Triangle. We must demand the firing of all the incompetent, inefficient toadies, violators of legality and morality, even to criminal levels.  We must take back the nation. Take back the schools. Put sensible laws back on the table. Back in our books. Back in our hearts. Use the same tools used by the Triangle to oppress us.  Reinforce the strength of our Constitution, our Declaration, our own stamina. It belongs always and only to the people of America.  

We must pick up that torch now flickering   weakly. It is the torch mentioned by JFK in his inaugural speech. We must be as courageous as he was, as he insisted, we should be. Only we can fix the wrongs already imposed upon our nation. Only we, the people, can help the people.

If we do not do it today, we will not be able to do it 

 On the morrow.   

AMAZING GRACE?

Is that true? Do the words of the title accurately describe reality as we know it, as we live it?  Is it true? In fact, in deed, in word? Or is it really part and parcel of the terrible plan to turn this nation inside out and upside down. Reverse any progress made over the centuries. Disregard civil rights, human rights and trash the very concept of progress. The idea to constantly seek, to look beyond where we are at present, finding pathways to a better world, a fairer world is now outmoded and condemned. 

Worse, this nefarious plan is led by those who are the very ones responsible for maintenance and strengthening of all that is truly America, to discard the wrong, the hateful, and build upon strengths and positivity, of all that we have learned and internalized since, even before, the establishment of this nation. Inclusion rather than exclusion.  Generosity rather than greed and sticky hands. To live with and by active morals rather than allowing, even encouraging, them to wither and die. Instead, at this point our false leaders have convinced or frightened too many, so as to turn their backs to those they dislike, even hate. To demean and dismiss them as not worthy, certainly not to be accepted and valued as people such as we are.  

We have, led by those misfits, denied the dreams of America. We have reembraced discrimination and enjoin an arrogance which inevitably culminates in combat. Instigated, allowed and even approved of the tactics of fascism, of dictators who have only contempt for others, deem them unworthy. Deny that which all humans have - inalienable rights. All that we have achieved in our two and a half centuries of existence has been deemed wrong.   

No, this nation is not in a state of amazing grace. Unfortunately, shamefacedly, we are at present in a state of amazing disgrace. Going ever deeper. Ever boggier. Ever more discouraging of a possibility of a better world. The possibility of returning to sanity, of reembracing the ethos of America, of being American, grows ever dimmer. 

George Washington refused the crown offered to him. We were done with kings. We were to be a democracy. A concept never before attempted nor achieved, meant to be a permanent state of being. These days we have trashed that and empowered a self-declared king who wishes himself a long life as that King, who rules by royal edicts known as Executive Orders, who tramples all over the rules and regulations of this nation. 

Worse, he is led by a most evil man. Yes. Evil. An escaped denizen from Hell. His greatest wish   is to rob this government of as much as he can. The 38 billion he has already taken and all that he has placed on the assembly line of theft is not enough for him. In pursuit of that wealth, that power, he dismisses all other than those who follow him by conviction or by fear and by threat. He denies the truth. He knows the reality, the truth of his slashing of the federal government workforce. Americans such as you, me, all of us, losing our jobs. Unable to feed our families. Not only in DC as he pretends, but in every state of this nation, in every city of this nation. presenting the workers as lazy, already dead. 

Denying the reality that for decades federal employees have had to turn in worksheets, sometimes daily. I know, because I did so during my term of employment within the government. Even as he slashes away at the safety nets of the nation, condemning all but the privileged to poverty, lack of food, poor education, hopes and dreams denied, healthcare denied. 

WHAT THE HELL ARE WE DOING!!!

Truth makes no matter here. Not in this ugly new world. We have been warned by those who know and dare to speak out that “There are no separate sovereigns in this executive branch". In fact, many have been the warnings about the deterioration of America. We now embrace our enemies. Refuse to condemn their aggressive attacks upon other nations. Deny the fact that the nation at war is actually on the front lines for us. To give in to Russian aggression is to sign our own death warrant. Our crooked leaders deny that even as they embarrass the nation before the eyes of the world with their crass shouting and finger pointing at a leader of another nation. One fighting our battles despite our denial of that truth. 

Shocked and disgusted at the outburst of the President of this heretofore dignified proud nation, it is we who have enabled this man to further his plans to establish a dystopian nation and cramp our future. This is what we have become, how far we have fallen with the bottom not yet reached. We have turned on our allies and embraced enemies of mankind. Our legislators have ceded their own rights, their own powers, in cowardly, sniveling behavior for this madman and his puppet master henchman. Under their rule our judiciary has capitulated as well. For the most part, brave, honest and defiant judges are an endangered species.

Too many of the new government appointees are inimical to a continued existence and retention of an honest workforce. To a nation structured within the Constitution, buoyed and brought into existence by its Declaration of Independence.   We have lost the ability, the desire to discern and defy evil, accepting bad in place of good. Trust in each other, civility in discussion, unity as a nation - where have they gone?   

How have we allowed, even encouraged and accepted open criminals, sexual perverts. and incompetents, even enemies of the state, as government leaders. Opponents are dismissed and libeled. Threatened with prosecution for doing their jobs.

 We must accept the truth that the only way to remedy the situation is for us to stand tall and proud, determined to return this state, this nation, to what it once was, and aspire to be even better. If we join together, if we demand our rights, if we fight against that which is not America, if we remember our Declaration of Independence, the structure of the Constitution, we have a chance to fix that which is so egregiously wrong.   

Lack of attention, of courage and knowledge will only weaken our efforts and chances of success. We must fix our nation before it is too late. Before the legal forces, their possibilities within a peaceful structure are invalidated. The consequences are ugly indeed. We must find the courage to emulate those around the world who stand up against dictators, who have had their rights denied. They fall and stand up again, and again, until there is success. Difficult, frightening, but what alternative do we have? 

We must learn to deny the current state of amazing disgrace. We must endeavor to return ourselves ever closer. to the state of amazing grace. We must deny the current state of the today in which we live. and find a better day for 

On the morrow.