And yet again! Another damned time when I can rightfully say that awful "I told you so", but that is not what I wanted. I truly hoped, against all odds that I was wrong in this case, that the tiger would not show his stripes, that the show as pretended to be would go on as so many deluded thought it would.
It Did Not.
Much to my sorrow, regret and pain. The same emotions felt by so many others. But disappointment per se - nope, never there for how can one be disappointed when the expected takes place? Although certainly there was a great deal of disappointment and disgust and yes, even fear, when the expected took place and the world continued on in its merry road of delusion and a growing incipient peril which we are ignoring. It is a case of a variation of the Emperor's New Clothes - never were, never will be, and never will all those in the viewing audience see through to the truth.
Truth One: Trump, the man with the finger on the button, the man who is ruling, yes, ruling, by dictat, is clearly deteriorated to a dangerous point.
Truth Two: His deterioration has gone way above and beyond any and all other Presidents in our history. The picture has been clearly evident for months, if not years. Now he is practically sleepwalking, cannot keep his eyes open any more than can a newborn baby, and his thinking, well. what thinking?
Truth Three: His behavior and remarks are more erratic than ever and world leaders, along with the little people of this world, you and me, are beyond worry, well into fear as to what this shell of a man might initiate.
Truth Four: As I predicted, warned. shouted, - the man has sold Israel down the river, no manumission papers, merely more chains to shackle the State of Israel to heavy impediments to their survival. To their right to defend themselves and do as any other nation would do if it were facing a grossly apparent and clearly and often voiced sentiment, for its enemies to see it all the way through to the final destruction of Israel.
Truth Five: This man is an embarrassment to this nation, a dangerous clown who wields power with high harmful potential. He has already done so with his crude maniacal campaign to brand all in DC and America, for that matter, to take on his name as he rides rampant over any and all that touches upon true and classic and classy matters, proper ways in which to celebrate this nation's birthday.
Most glaringly 'ny kulturny' ( a disgrace of no redeemable value) is his rather crude pandering to the masses in the event with a fighting ring set up on the South Lawn, where two half naked men would pound away at each other accompanied by maniacal cheers of mainly beer guzzling men, dregs of the extreme MAGA universe that remains, all accompanied by a list of shame of those who contributed to its funding, all the better to gain access to Trump and his Trumpian, corrupt kingdom. Ever so handy to use this event to shout epithets and hostile sentiments. Just another Donald Trump day.
I, along with many others, hang our heads in shame at this public embarrassment to our nation. It turns one's face as green as the Reflecting Pool has turned once again, despite all the money Trump has thrown at it, in his rather mad campaign to defame any and all monuments to this nation and its past, and yes, even to some of its errors. This is how we learn from history and improve ourselves rather than give way to jingoism and worse.
We have so much of which to be proud, to lay out before the eyes of the world. To boast of our accomplishments, our historical importance and our contributions to the advancement of the population of the world. To be brave, and bold, and honest as we reflect upon our history, to acknowledge and be proud of our greatest steps forward and think carefully and productively of our errors along the way.
Truth Six: We all should have lost the contents of our stomachs at the sight of Trump bowing before Khomeini. We should be red in the face at the desertion of the rebels, those courageous college students of Iran, despite and after Trump basically promised he, we, would be there with them.
We were not.
Truth Seven: Israel is next. Even as Trump and his evil cohorts seek to ban the universal right to vote freely within the structure of this nation, as he tramples upon the critical right to mail in ballots - I do - we stand here as lambs ready for the slaughter. We, the people of America, the people and leaders of the world, have fallen prey to the machinations and the bullying, the false promises of a deluded demented person who mistakenly believes he is a god figure. And there goes Israel.
This is upon us. I do not even know how, if ever, we can truly regain our footing. I believe the roadway has been challenged for an eternity, and it will take long and powerful and sustained efforts to right this planet, to steady it on its proper axis, and move once again in proper orbit.
It is depressing to think, to see how quickly, how far back we have gone in this mad decade. The world went astray. A world which looked to the worst of the yesterdays as it lived in the todays and planned for the tomorrows. We need to learn from our errors of yesterday. Repair the gaps within the fabric of our nation as we settle into our todays. Most important, we must be better, do better, make it better for all the tomorrows to come.
Once again. I am not optimistic at all. I think we have much of the harmful awaiting us before we can get back to where we should have been lo these many a year.
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