Tick, Tick, Tock!

I really want to write something a little more positive, but as each day unfolds we witness another egregious assault on the truth by Trump and his minions.  It is emotionally exhausting and all of us just twist our heads in bewilderment as we watch all of the carefully constructed elements of truth, justice and the American way circle the drain and disappear.

However, since the appearance at the Boy Scout Jamboree over the weekend by Trump, there seems to be a tangible, subtle change in the overall zeitgeist of the country regarding our angst over the continuing nightmare we are all living through.  It’s almost like this event has taken us one step too far, and it is dawning on more and more 'fence-sitters' that we have an immoral maniac in the White House. 

Many of us have expressed that sentiment before this moment, but now we are seeing cracks in the support of his supplicants.  It’s probable that his most ardent supporters will always blindly accept his actions and policy decisions, because to disagree with him or abandon him would mean that they had made a bad decision in voting for him.  That would mean they would have to admit that they were totally ‘conned’ by his campaign.  Never happen.

But now there are so many indications of madness (Transgender ban; irrational and constant blaming of Democrats and Clinton; incessant lying and distractive tweeting; clear non-understanding of even the most basic of issues; the vindictive accusations and threats to members of his own party) along with the inaction of the complete Republican machine with it’s inability to move any issue of consequence forward, that our government is paralyzed.  Paralyzed by constant conversation about how the Rule of Law is being fractured, we are all exhausted.

Turn on the news and see if there is anything being discussed that resembles debate about critical issues that our government is supposed to be dealing with. Crickets!  It seems that the Russians have succeeded in their objective, which has always been to create chaos in our democracy. 

For the past 7 months the Trump administration has dissembled so many of our societal safeguards, that it will take a long time to re-establish rationality and justice to our society once we rid ourselves of this abscess in our government.

The looming threat is something we are unprepared to deal with—a real crisis that will require coherent administrative leadership to solve a problem like North Korea or a financial breakdown or something dramatic.

God help us if we face a crisis moment with Trump in the White House.  Let’s hope that this subtle change in our awareness of the menace of the “President” leads to renewed resolve before we fall victim to our own inaction.