Okay, time to set the record straight. Time to clear up any misunderstandings. It is my sincere hope that this posting will do exactly that. If anyone has any remaining questions or doubts, feel free to send me an email or a reaction to the blogs posted on Facebook. Please note that any reaction, any communication, infused with hate and violence will be removed, and the sender banned. Thankfully, as of the present, we have avoided mostly all such ugliness. May it continue.
OK, first up. I have been asked several times why I focus on Trump, a logical question and hopefully my answer will satisfy you. Trump has indeed received much of the focus of this blog - due to his behavior, his actions, his statements, his entire gestalt. It rubs me raw, sets the acid bubbling in my stomach and worries me greatly, setting my brain afire with worry, even to despair.
I do not care what his name is. I do not care that he claims to be a loyal GOP member; in fact, I simply don't care about whatever he deems himself. All I value is how he does or does not represent those values I treasure, and how he does or does not, endanger them. Those are the arbiters, the crux of my evaluative sheet. If he checks all the boxes, well, there it is. His contributions to the world, to America in particular, are rather nasty and he is, in fact, a great cause of and to the anomie of this world, to tensions within this nation, to the growing chasms here and in the world at large.
Such is my take on this man, this false le his ridiculous, shameful, childish behavior be it via childish rhymes and insults. His desire to "jazz up” his communications and his threats of revenge on a schoolyard bully level. All of the above constitute the herd of elephants continuously present in his presence. They are plentiful in his nightsoil bucket as represented within his misnomered TruthSocial site, replete with ugly lies and odors emanating from them.
In fact, he could call himself communist, socialist, Democrat, the reincarnation of Don Quixote - I do not care. I do not care for titles as indicators of what and how I should think of a person. I go by what they say of themselves, by what they show of themselves. Trump shows of his ugliness openly. Fact, Do I care that he labels himself head of the GOP? No. At one point in my life, I was a registered member of the GOP. At that point the GOP was a party of dignified thinkers who were able to think independently and vote accordingly. Did I always agree with them? No, and I don't always agree with anyone, not even myself. However, the current impersonation of the GOP has shamed itself before the world, certainly before American voters. To quote from one of my favorite musicals - “ All of you people are toads. Yes, your majesty, no, your majesty." - the behavior of the current members of the GOP. They vote as instructed with nary a dissent. Always yes or no per the wishes of Trump. Apparently, most of them have a yellow streak running down their backs, quaking in fear of a madman whom they have the power to remove from office - and do not.
So yes, much of the focus of this blog remains on Trump, as it should be and as it will be, unless and until he either undergoes an entire transformation or kicks himself out of office or those so not worthy representatives in D. C. do the job they are supposed to do. My confidence in that is zero to never.
Now on to the other elephant in the room. Oops, I should have said donkey, certainly an apt description of their thoughts and behavior. I am certainly not a fan of the Democratic Party at present. Too many messengers and messages of hate. Too many have refused to condemn these carriers of hate to Congress re Jews and Israel and Zionism and Anti Semitism and whatever else they managed to mix up in a toxic mess. Frankly, I believe those spewers of vile trash must be ousted too. Tlaib, Presley, Bush, Omar, Bowman, AOC though she is somewhat better but definitely continues to need improvement, and all the rest of that ugly tribe. Vocal contributors to the rot that is eating away at the souls of Americans, at the soul of America.
Am I supposed to soften my criticism of Trump or the GOP, because at present, they appear to be backing Israel? I hope and pray it continues; however, trust of Donald Trump maintaining a straight path, particularly if it means some damage to his opinion of himself and his monarchial ambitions, his ratings, or maniacal ambition to remain in office until he is drooling and dabbling in paint in the dementia ward. Nope
I believe that this man and his enablers, together, form an obvious peril to the continuation of this nation as a nation immersed deeply in the idea and facilitation of democracy. Meant to be a leader, to be a role model, to do the right thing and to be honest enough, to admit when it had been wrong and to go a long way to adjudicating the wrong. It helped people, both of this country and around the world, engendering trust and respect rather than dismay and a growing disrespect.
Never 100% correct in what it has done over the centuries and what it continues to do now, no, for sure, and no entity is 100% perfect, but today's government within the United States should be held up as a shameful example of how good can go wrong, of individuals with overwhelming personality defects can blind eyes and dam functioning minds so that the truth is obscured until it is too late. At times now it seems we might never have energy and time enough to rewrite the wrongs; to reverse this terrible path we are at present barreling down. To reverse the hurt and the harm, and return to the social safety net we provided for our people and the nations of the world. Certainly, that will never happen if we continue to have a Trumpian substitute and Trumpian Toadies in seats of power.
At present we appear to be intent on following a path which alienates all who do not meet our rather restricted lines of acceptability. We are once again following defective policy of limited trade, of extremely limited immigration, policies which endanger many and invoke hatred. We have tarred all with a brush of shame, committed to a policy of mass discrimination, discarding safety valves already in place, improved vetting, rather than mass condemnation leading only to more hate and ignorance.
It has gotten to the point that this nation as a political entity is discarding at ever faster rate and pace all the laws, all the traditions, all that has made America, America. When the person in the highest seat of power of this nation openly flouts the law, appoints preposterously irresponsible unqualified ignorant people tasked with the job of destroying that which was given to them, all harming the people of this nation, what the hell is happening?
What have we done to hopes and trust for the future? We have crashed them almost beyond any hope of repair. At present, like it or not, the point man on this is Donald Trump. I restate - I care not what party he belongs to. I do not care what labels a person gives himself or others give to him. I care only for what the person does, what he shows, and this man has shown that he's composed of more evil, of ambitions by an oversized ego, by insane dangerous behavior while steering the ship of state. He travels so that no one in this country, no one on this earth, can be sure of direction, goals, and results. It is, in truth, a danger to soul and body, to safety, to a life of hopes and dreams. America.
There can be no trust in this man in the surety of his promises. He has turned his shirt inside out and outside in over and over again, flipped his positions so that no one, not even he can be sure where he is and where he is going. His lack of understanding, his lack of brain power, his growing dementia, his ignorance and his vitriolic soul all ring the warning bell. We have gone off the map and into the seas of "Here Be Dragons". Many of them dragons of our own making and/or revival.
In fact no one in this nation other than the Uber wealthy will be better off for his being president. In fact, we will all be terribly worse off via his crazed anti economic sanity of tariffs and trade restrictions. His insistence on behaving like a child and playing give and take are conducive to resentment and despair, to the ruination of lives, to the deaths of hopes and dreams, and to the entity once known loved and valued as America.
The pressures within this nation have already begun to make deep inroads into the ethos of this nation. The rising tide of Anti Semitism to the point of pure, sheer, ugly, JewHatred will inevitably lead to an ugliness never before known in this land. It will compete and overtake the violence of the past and inevitably lead not only to mortal danger to the people of the Jewish nation, but to any other group so singled out and held up as the scapegoat for whatever is wrong. Hate never ends It only grows, opens wider its ugly mouth. Wider and wider and swallows all.
I hope that all is clear and understood. I hold dear and tight to my heart two countries: Israel and the United States. I hold dear to me the people within those states. I believe that the government within both nations has gone egregiously wrong and off-track. Both nations have a severe lack of true leaders who can put the nation first and herself/himself way down the line. Who will grow deeper and wiser to meet the demands of this position. Leaders of both nations at present have placed their nations in existential peril and that is fiercely worrisome to me and to many others.
Certainly, as anyone who knows me or has been in my classroom, has been told over and over again how I detest lies and value honesty. Lies which pervert truth, which makes hate the currency of the day and decency trampled underfoot. Lies enable the evil, the wrong, the dangerous. The scum of the earth rise to the top and purport to be the elite of society, borne there via rivers of lies.
If the shoe fits, one has to acknowledge that fact. By whatever name known. Were Trump a declared Democrat I would still criticize and despise him. Titles mean naught, only words and deeds. Truth.
This is true for all my yesterdays, my todays, and hopefully my tomorrows.
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