Actually, I cannot see clearly. I don't believe I can actually see 10 feet in front of me, so befogged is the whole situation. Worse, this situation is taking place in both my countries. They have both forsaken their ethos. They have forgotten the reasons and the purposes for their existence. They have cast aside their principles and have embraced twisted thinking and actions which can only lead to tragedy. My spirit born state, my native-born nation, both my homes, and both countries have lost their way. They have forgotten who they are, who we are, who we are supposed to be. The principles of our foundations are dissipating before our very eyes, all going, going, gone, or almost gone.
The last chance to grasp it, to take hold of its tail, as its caboose speeds away, disappearing into the distance, must take place. The possibilities are hard to contemplate and yet contemplate them we must if we are to stop this roaring runaway train with no brakes, no conductor, no outside guidance. The only thing that can stop it is a strong will from deep within all of us, directed at it by all those who cherish its content, who know its value, and understand what its disappearance will mean to us and to a future never realized.
Fortunately, it is an understanding grasped by more and more. Those who have brought it upon us are being heckled and jeered, questioned forcefully, with the citizenry demanding to know why, what, how is this now the status quo? Why have they thrust aside their responsibility, broken all their promises, thrust us headlong into an ever-worsening situation. Sniveling cowards all, they have all been cowed, given way before the dictator, all those who would rip and shred this country making it unrecognizable to all. Those charged with the duty to service the nation, keep it safe, ensure our rights, have instead, chosen to stomp and stamp upon us as they claw their way to the top, congratulate themselves on their achievements, and sneer down at the rest of us, those they have betrayed.
Israel, my nation of my heart, my spirit, my religion, so tormented and challenged, so unfairly condemned, so wrought with dissension, so betrayed by those who have promised to keep us safe. America, my home of birth. My native-born nation. The country providing homes for the dispossessed, the nation that role modeled for the world, served as a staunch champion of all that was right and the will to mend all that was awry.
Where have you gone, both of you. I look high and low, left to right, up and down, east to west and all I see before me are mere shadows of what once was. Within those shadows I see desperate people calling out for help, trying to wrench the steering wheel of their ships of state back into their control, calling out for leaders, true leaders who make no false promises and strive to keep those they make. Leaders who understand the needs of a nation and its people and strive to be the best they can be, the most honorable they can be, the best guardians of the nation and the people entrusted unto their care.
These leaders have gone AWOL, either by their own will, so tired of the crazed opposition or not of their own will, but under duress. Either cause notwithstanding, we have been abandoned, left their positions open, their responsibilities unfulfilled. Others have glommed onto the roles, become dictators, authoritarian figures who care not for the people of their nation They erase with evil intent all of the safeguards of their nations, their constitutional rights, debase and denounce their declarations of independence, their raisons d'etre, deny their principles of foundation, and refuse the responsibility for any and all things that go wrong, even unto the death of their citizens.
Does it truly make a difference whether one is called Netanyahu? Or another is called Trump? Or yet another is called Gvir and another is called Vance or Putin or Xi? Does it really make a difference? Sick extremists of both nations, the crazed extreme left and right who know not boundaries, who spew forth hate with every breath - same difference is it not?
I know there are other nations of this world who also are suffering beneath the iron fists of dictators, of selfish creatures whose only goal is to amass power and wealth. The more the better. There are no rights or wrongs for them, for the only right is to do all the wrong they can, to impose their wishes on others, to impoverish the people of their nation, to drain their hopes, to enhance their fears and cause them to look around and wonder how the hell did we get here and how the hell do we get out!
Yes, some of the worst leaders have some good points but is that enough for us to surrender ourselves to them, for us to stand by and watch as they shred our nation, as they cancel democracy beneath our eyes and feet? As they claim rights which do not belong to them, 'rights' which supersede ours? As they indeed make our lives hard, worthless, sans dreams, sans hopes, sans happiness.
Frankly, we had better wake up, whomever our nation be. When we try to look aside, refuse to talk about it, for we fear arguments, when we refuse to look and see ahead, the very near future, maybe not even months away, its dense darkness, we then become those who have stolen our own lives.
Think about it.
Think about the yesterdays that we had where we exercised our rights, where we made errors and attempted to correct them, failed, but where we picked ourselves up and moved on, move ahead, made life better.
Think of the todays now challenged, set aside, becoming dreary repeats, one day after the other, gray, gloomy, doomed.
Think ahead what we are giving ourselves.
What will the life ahead of us be, all those
on the morrows .......
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