So. Traveling home yesterday - the reason there was no posting - I nearly had apoplexy while reading the New York Times. In fact, I believe the only reason why I did not yell out loud in the deepest throes of despair is because I was in a plane with a full capacity of passengers and thought it would not go over well for a little old lady to explode as she sought to find where and why and how her country had gone astray.
Why we had allowed it to do so? The thought, no, the knowledge, that this was nearly at point of no return, I barely kept my mouth shut, refraining from shouting to one and all to wake up. Smell the treachery. See the treason. Watch yourselves in the mirror as you, we, all of us, cave in to the Dictator, to the man now clearly desirous of total control over the land he supposedly led. The same man who swore to protect and serve, to defend from traitors and enemies within and without. He is the within so who is there to protect us, the people of the United States of America?
In fact, who would see the nation through the throes of yet another Civil War? Would the forces of democracy be strong enough, or were the toadies of Congress, as the embattled judiciary and the weasel judiciary fought to the finish, will we, the people of this nation fight. We who know the necessity of remaining true to the principles upon which this nation was founded, will we have the willpower to remain strong and committed? Will we enlighten those who have walked deeper and deeper into the swamp of treachery, fallen victim to the false words and promises of a man demented. Crazed with desire to rule the world, to be written into history as the Great Peacemaker even as he incites more hatred, more violence, more despair and more apathy, hopelessness within those who see him clearly.
There is little that is true and decent within this man's mind and soul, his blackened heart. He has modeled himself and his actions after earlier dictators who did as he is doing right now. That is using the very laws of the nation against that nation. Playing the nation against itself. Using the words of the law, aided and abetted by coopted judges and legislators, he cowed out all opposition via threats, violence, and public humiliation, and climbed rung after rung on the ladder to the dark clouds of dictatorship, of American Fascism. Suddenly, there he was, a rung or two away from total mastery.
We allowed this to take place. We are the ones who refused to see the truth? To acknowledge his ugly ambitions. We did. There is, was, no one else to blame but us. Either we did not see the ugly truth, or even after seeing it, refused to accept it. All on us. Too many accepted his words of explanation, remained blind to the increase of violence, of vicious JewHatred spreading through the land and the world. Even as he claimed to be the protector of Jews, using that as the excuse to oppress and suppress all who opposed him. He used his powers and the weaknesses of others to censor all words of opposition, who tossed humans away like trash, who appointed incompetent fools, dangerous in their inability to do a proper job and their eager obeisance to all he demanded of them. To be his sacrificial lambs should anything go wrong.
Claiming to be the savior of Israel, to stand with her as other nations, one by one, walked away, set the stage for a second genocide of the Jewish people; he set her up for disaster. He supplied arms and ammunition, Spewed forth in pompous bombastic manner words and threats all leading to further incitement of Hamas and allies. They did not cave to his threats and called his bluff - and he walked away, stating it was now all up to Israel. To do whatever she wished. For he had had enough. So many other places of war and violence where he could meddle and play mediator and peacemaker. And so Israel now would stand alone. With such 'friends', surely there was no need for enemies. A trite but true statement.
All this was not enough. Nor fast enough. His humongous appetite for power and wealth could not be sated, even as he sold the nobility of America for his own bowl of lentil soup. He paraded us naked before the world. He meddled in the affairs of others, even to the point of ceding their land to invaders, all in the name of his reputation as 'Peacemaker'. Resultant question. Using a ceding of eastern Ukraine to Putin with the reasoning that it was part of traditional Russia why not these scenarios? Putin demands Alaska as part of traditional Russia as they first settled it. Why not for Mexico to demand the American Southwest for they were there first? Why not for Native Americans to abandon reservations and demand the territory now known as the USA?
This is a man who governs by blackmail and threats. This is a man who allows, encourages even the separation of children from parents. This is a man who incarcerates the innocent in filthy, shameful conditions. This is a man who calls out the military to wage war, yes, war, upon fellow Americans. To take over a civilian entity, the capital of the United States, and flood it with the military and federal agents. To threaten to do the same to New York. To Chicago, to all who displease the mighty king.
Have we not learned better? Must we emulate the tragedy of Kent University? Are we to continuously and forever ignore the fact that this man incited violent treason against this nation on January 6? Look aside from the fact that he is a convicted felon and should be behind bars at this point. That he is a sexual pervert? That he behaves as a shameless huckster selling baubles for his profit from the Oval Office and the golf courses of the world?
At this point, we still have the legal power and ways and means to impeach, convict, and imprison this felon and his abetting honchos for the crime of treason and treachery. Retract the pardons of those already convicted and serving prison terms for their participation in the rebellion of January 6th.
What are we waiting for? Until it will be too late? Until we will be too powerless, too stunned? Unable to react promptly and positively, to restore our nation to what the Founding Fathers wished it to be?
Are we going to throw all our yesterdays of democracy away, cancel the todays we thought we once were guaranteed, and fail all the tomorrows of our nation as it should be?
This is what we are doing now.
Time to stand up and speak out. Time to demand our nation as it should be. An end to an imposition of dictatorship. An end to corruption and incompetence.
Now.
Before time is up.
Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
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