"DARK AND DREARY PLACE"

  Thus spoke our dear and wonderful Donald Trump as he describes the United States before he was in place as president for his second term. As he   meandered through a huge bowl of word salad, the main garnish consisted of his tired claim of loss of election due to its being rigged against him. Ho-hum. Yawn. Bigger yawn. 

Yep, there he is. Still on the favorite claim of his, for his ego and his rather battered function damaged mind cannot find other hooks upon which to hang points in his favor. Probably because there are very few hooks available which carry even a modicum of truth. On and on he blathers with more and more people finding that they cannot follow any thread of his to any kind of logical path or conclusion. That  is because there isn't any such thing. Try it yourself. The act of creation and disbursement of consistent speech based on shaky foundations of outright lies is quite difficult. Nigh unto impossible particularly if we are discussing long term existence. 

His words are replete with lies, imagined happenings and outright nonsense. He comes across as a person suffering the throes of dementia. Quite challenged, unable to speak truths, for they do not exist in reality, certainly not in his presentation of such claims. Lies heaped upon lies. Within his talk we are in an Abbott and Costello world where confusion reigns and truth and certainty are abhorred, deemed tools of the Devil and his minions, all directly aimed at that poor erstwhile self-proclaimed victim, the whole word conspiring to destroy him. Oh, so pitiful, is it not! 

If this man was an average Joe on the street suffering in the throes of dementia beating at the doors and windows of his mind, it would be sad enough. However, when such a person is President of the United States, then we are in the sharp pincers of inevitable disaster, we and by extension the peoples of the world. It is a woe upon us reality.   The situation deteriorates hour by hour, minute by minute, as people take a bite of the apple he extends to us. 

Similar to the consequences of the apple of Eden are the consequences of the apple today.  However, there is a clear distinction between the two events.  Adam and Eve accepted responsibility for the burdens now placed upon their shoulders and the shoulders of humanity. This man and his groveling sycophants deny the obvious truth and thrust all blame upon the shoulders of others, declaiming their innocence, detailing the persecution they suffer. Worst of all is how many persist in buying into his crap, even as they suffer the consequences of his acts, even as nothing touches him, nor his businesses, as he continues to build his bottom lines, shamelessly using the Oval Office as a place of business. Clearly the very model of all that should not be in a person holding public office.

 Within all that he became the self-declared white knight riding in on a rather tired white nag to 'rescue' this country from its dark and dreary plane of existence. Bursting his bubble, that darkness and weariness and dreariness are creations birthed of his actions. He birthed it with his lies. He birthed it via   crude words. He sired it with great enthusiasm and used it in the most egregious manner. As a result, he has polished his role as exemplar of all that has gone wrong in this nation, of all the ugliness that has come to the fore. Been encouraged and used as a weapon of attack and war. All in order to maintain and improve the path to his clearly desired goal of doing away with the democracy of this nation and installing an autocracy dominated by the Trump family and groveling toadies hopping along behind.

He has clearly spoken of meshing state and church, a clear violation of the words and the spirit of the Constitution and the founding principles of this nation. He has shamed the dignity of the Oval Office by his clear intentions and his ugly behavior. He has become a source of hatred and ugliness as he persists in the persecution of those who have immigrated legally and illegally into this nation, the same as all of our ancestors have done, including his own. He has created an economic crisis and what will be a food shortage crisis when crops are not planted nor reaped if planted, because there are no workers to do so. He has played and continues to play the role of bully and blackmailer and immersed this nation, this once proud nation in a bowl of stupidity with crackers that spread crumbs of hatred and anger and despair and darkness - the very conditions he claims was there prior to his term as president.

His one powerful and proper and good and necessary act of supporting Israel is gradually losing its shine as stories of pressuring Netanyahu on a cease fire of the terms of Hamas the violator, the aggressor, the loser of this war are airing. When does such a thing ever happen? The very opposite of all that is true! When does an outside nation dictate terms, become the one who can determine the life or death of hostages. All the while there is that niggling growing ever larger day by day kernel of mistrust and distrust. Those with dementia are not known to be of steady, consistent actions, words and deeds.

The outward dissipation of his body, the sagging of his jowls and the rather obvious stupidity of his hairdos are merely reflections of the ugliness of soul within him. I am frightened, very much so, at the depths of trust some have in him, thinking he will continue along a pathway of right. I am concerned as he uses antisemitism as a battering ram against the rights guaranteed to the citizens of this nation, allowing blame for the angst of this nation to fall upon the shoulders of Jews.  Without them would he have attacked the universities? Would he have had an excuse to do so? Hence, it is the fault of the Jews, the thinking goes. I worry greatly that when that spoke of his wheel of anti - Semitism grows rusty and inconvenient he will break it off and replace it with something else. I worry about a future on the nation with the top level of government, elected and appointed, are so clearly incompetent and unable to fulfill their roles as they should be. I am extremely frightened by the blatant gutting of the departments of this nation. Those which ensure our safety, our healthcare, education and anything else that is good and proper, from public tv to education to the Veterans Administration, any and all are grist for his ugly mill, crushing them and all that they provide to the American citizen. I fret tirelessly about the attack on the judiciary of this nation. bashing over and over again at the door to their independence and their role as defender of the correct USA and not a pathetic imitation of what it used to be, what it is supposed to remain.

Is there time yet? Is there courage within us still to right the wrongs of this nation, to redirect us back to where we should be, to help us undo the ugliness that this man and his sniveling cowering cowards have thrown over this nation?

How many more times are we going to hear the mantra that once we were proud to be Americans, able to walk the world with shoulders high, body erect? Today, not so much. America, the idea and values of America have tarnished and the ability, the promise of hard work to restore that glow, to defeat the tarnish, diminish exponentially. Will we continue to retain the ability to polish all that has gone dark, restore it to its former glow and status? I don't know. What I do know is that this dark and dreary place has grown deep roots into our reality and I place most of the responsibility upon him and his and ours who have allowed this.

Yesterday is gone.

 Today is here and threatened, wobbling on its foundations. 

Tomorrow awaits its time to come on stage, but its role remains uncertain, awaiting our designation and definition.

Who will do that is up in the air, but it will determine our future. We must do better with choices of leaders and wiser in determining whom to follow and whom to spurn. We are the final determinators of our fate and the fate of our nation.    We must do better.