Death by a thousand cuts. Itty bitty little snips, here and there, just little sharp tings, so easy to overlook - and then, wakey, wakey, for we are here. Where is here, you ask? Anywhere we should not be, anywhere on the road in the wrong direction. Unfortunately, by the time most of us do indeed wakey, it is too late or demands a greater concerted effort that many are not capable of reaching and/or achieving. What then? Well, just take a look around and honestly, open eyes and ears. See the truth, for we have made it so. WE - and nobody else. Either by cooperation or looking aside, making excuses until the excuses bite us back - and it hurts! And what then? Hmmm.
Simple enough to figure out and we should have done so long ago. From the very first moment we allowed a seemingly ridiculous clown to enter the race we had enrolled our country in the worst race of all. And we have lost. Is there any chance of returning to sanity or at least a modicum of it? Well, at this point I believe the Cassandra part of me has smothered much of the Pollyanna trait within. Sadly, but truly so.
We should have declared this man ineligible for entry into a contest for the most powerful seat in the world. He clearly demonstrated bizarre and seemingly far off never happen ideas for this nation and we all laughed. And then some of us stopped laughing, stopped discounting his chances. So spoiled were we, the people of this nation, that we allowed a nasty human being to appeal to the worst of us and then elected him to office as a protest. We thought, voiced or not, that he could do no major harm for that term and then he would be gone and perhaps we could get down to business.
Realign this nation. Return it to its initial founding beliefs. Reinstall pride within their hearts that we are Americans, with all that entails. Live up to those standards. Remain as the leaders of the free world. How wrong and foolish we were. We refused to learn from history. Successful attempts of "fools” who pulled the wool over everyone's eyes. Who became the "leaders” of their nations. Much to the regret and sorrow of the world. Evil and violence within and without the borders of that nation. The violence went viral with the inevitable results of war, horror, death, poverty, destruction and schisms so deep that most nations never fully recovered - even as they tragically repeated the same errors, again and again. Il Duce, Hitler - Trump.
Those who did indeed learn from history had their voices drowned out by those who did not. Or who actually wished to repeat it. They sidelined his stupidities. But what seemed to be stupidities were actually foretastes of what he actually had in mind. That was clearly seen in his failed violent and bloody attempt to overthrow this nation's government. A la the failed Putsch of Hitler and then - we know what then, do we not?
Even then he and his followers refused to give up. They bided their time and came back strong in 2024. Much to the dismay of those who saw through his obfuscations. Too many ignored what was clearly his end goal. That was to become the "Leader" of this nation. To cancel the Constitution. To trash the three-branch government. To crush all his opponents. To do all that he must in order to keep Power in his hands and tainted filthy lucre to build in his pockets. No shame. No end to his ambitions. Engages in blackmail and threats. Within and without this nation, of individuals and groups. Shreds families. Destroys economies.
He caters to the uber, uber wealthy. Yeah, there are those who continue to believe in the false words and promises, swallow whole the lies he spews forth without end. Even as at the same time his most insane statements are encased in laws enacted by his puppet legislature and legally sanctioned by a judiciary afraid of him. Even as his dementia grows more and more evident, but hey, so were many other leaders throughout history, even as their nations bought into it for so long and the nations and their populations paid the price, the wounds never fully healing nor scarring over completely.
He has deeply embedded his roots into the heart of this nation. As he does so he is crushing the heart, destroying the essence of the idea, of the concept of America. Those who continue to follow him trust him despite all that he has done to break that trust. His awful beyond words new "ugly inhumane bill" will break just those same people who voted for him: the western states, the flyover states, The farming states which depend on immigrant labor to work the fields - who have been thrown away, like used tissues; those who rely on Medicaid, food programs, business loans, health care, educational access, job training for new occupations and possibilities. I wonder how violent the quashing of the protests of those will be, those whose kids are hungry, whose spouse is ill, whose college plans are obviated, whose homes have been foreclosed.
There are those who point to good. And he has done. Yes. I appreciate his support for Israel, but always there's the fear and mistrust. This man shifts positions and statements as quickly as he can as measured against his one permanent value. That is what is good for Trump. That and only that. Disobey his orders, capitalized especially, and you are doomed.
Trust in this man is a waste of time, a loss of breath. His policies are growing more and more inimical to the masses of Americans, other than the uber-uber wealthy. Even as he more openly exposes his ambitions as he employs the military at will, to a B-52 flyover when he signs the fascistic inhumane bill, to his birthday parade, to the states of his opponents. A bully, as all such as he, and a human chameleon as far as policy, hewing only to what is good for him and his. Period.
Voltaire, a disgusting Jew Hater, nevertheless knew men such as he and their plans and consequences. The warnings within are valid till today and well into the future. They are the lessons of history. The history we continue to ignore at our peril.
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." This is very quickly going to prove its validity once the awful policies of his new bill are in place and activated. We can then understand another well-known statement of Voltaire and one we must answer. And quickly.
"If this is the best of all possible worlds then what must the others be like?"
We must differentiate between the good and bad of yesterdays and apply the good and valid to our todays and build a positive foundation for the tomorrows to come.
If we ignore our responsibilities to our kids, to the future, well, follow the thread.
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