Unclear. So many issues beclouded the matters at hand. The ways forward, backwards or sideways were present, but where they led to remained uncertain. Choice became a challenging necessity, and too many brains shut down, afraid of the responsibility of choosing wisely and well. Left to others to do that choosing, many chose incorrectly, or unwisely, or simply followed instructions as mindless robots. At the exact time when America was in desperate need of keen incisive thinking and assessment, she was bereft of them. The ability to instinctively recognize what lay beneath each choice, each competing pathway, was in extremely short supply and too often stored way for a future time, even as those future times became less possible.
America stepped tentatively onto tricky befogged roads, and not heedful of the pitfalls ahead, too often became ensnared in traps awaiting. Careless or purposeful missteps brought them up against insurmountable blockades and hence were forced down byroads and side roads, even backroads barely navigable, certainly no good for the entity known as America. She, that bold body politic, that shining somewhat tarnished ethos grew tired.
The pace decreased, the fog intensified, and the footsteps were those of a people plodding, confused, heads down, open to the purposeful missteps of nefarious minded false leaders with ugly goals. Finally, we were fully immersed in a miasmic swamp, ugly, rife with the odors of evil, rank with the rotting of a glorious dream, a ceding of the progress of mankind in the recognition of the humanity of all. We fooled ourselves and bought into the false picture of a sunny day at the beach, refusing to see the truth, hear it, smell it, and our souls withered apace with the blackened souls of the perpetrators of this horror.
America destabilized, forfeited her ethos, and presented the answer to the question of brain possession. Most manifestly we did not, certainly not a functioning one capable of discernment of truth, able to distinguish connotation and denotation, able to parse the truth out of the words disguising it, to pull out the gems of truth from the streams of garbage constantly being spewed at us.
For sure, it took us a long time to realize that we were living the dystopian novels we had all read in the uncensored schools of our times, The language of our lives has become deficient, as any words which hinted at any kind of discourse, of a necessity to repair that which we have broken, that which we have shredded, are disappearing from our vocabulary, from the lexicon of words in our dictionaries. Have you even noticed it? We are now as close to the "war is peace and peace is war" of a Brave New World and 1984 as we have ever been. There are MuskRats chewing away at our words and thoughts, our very ability to think for ourselves and be able to voice these thoughts with words of comprehension and depth.
In fact, whatever brainpower remains with us, within us, in these dark and challenging times must be quickly harnessed. Our immediate future is unclear and frankly frightening. Will Americans, you and me, all of us, stand up for America? The America we were and the one we need to be once again. Will we be the America which recognizes the threat to survival and acts accordingly? The America which will have woken up and recognized the situation and become once again a fearsome enemy and a loyal ally to those with functioning, properly functioning, brains? To seek and be once again America, the beautiful, the one with goals of increasing brotherhood, of personal freedom and rights. The welcoming home of dreams and hopes and actualization of them. The America we were once proud to leave to our children.
And now, well, anybody avoiding the mirror these days? Anyone wondering how they did not see through, follow the threads all the way to the end, to the inevitabilities? Anyone wondering how they did not recognize lies and mistook them for the truth? Anyone now wondering how we are going to answer history when questions are raised? What did you do during this time? Did you recognize the danger, the peril that Trump and Musk posed to this nation and its survival? If so, what did you do? Did you buy into it, or fight against it? Did you stop the hemorrhaging of the nobility of the judiciary system and force out crooked judges and lawyers and replace them with individuals of integrity, with the courage to resist threats, able to keep justice foremost and untainted?
Did you rage against the legislators at all levels of government? Demand that they measure up, stand up, and fulfill their tasks? Properly. Honestly. Will they indeed remain true to the burden of serving this nation and its population? To be the best they can be and strive ever more for improvement and justice.
Did you include within the above the executive branch of this nation, now so corrupted, so twisted by the machinations of Trump, Musk, et alia. Did you join the movement to expel all the traitorous legislators, the corruptors of the executive branch. Did you recognize treason where it was and not manufacture excuses? Did you hold true the important tenet of America, that no one is above the law? Enforced the recognition that all are responsible for their own actions, and for their words as well which enabled and encouraged others to commit crimes, personal and national? Did we, you and me, discard the trash and clean the Houses of our nation and return to better times, one truer to our ideals than ever. Did we do what was right, what was necessary, or did we hide from the truth and its demands?
Did we learn? Did we repower our brains? Did we recognize where we went wrong, learned for the future. and understood that the answers must come from us, the strength from within. We must decide who we are, what it means to be American. We need to truly internalize the fact that this nation. rests upon the shoulders of its citizens. This nation reflects those citizens. If we are to be proud of this nation, we had better work to be proud of ourselves. For the right things. For the right morals, for the correct paths of life. Most of all, we had better not repeat the errors so rampant in our nation today, from top to bottom, ocean to ocean.
Who are we?
We are America.
Always.
Yesterday.
Today.
And for sure, always
On the morrow.
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