Controlling my Gag Reflex--Harder and Harder!

I am a man.  I have flirted with women all my life, but never in all that time have I ever had the desire, much less the chutzpah, to touch, fondle, kiss or invade a woman’s space without her mutual consent.  That kind of action is not in my frame of reference.

I can’t think of a time when I have been more disgusted and demoralized by my country than now.  I listened to Nancy Pelosi Sunday on Meet the Press and then listened to Sen. Tim Scott, Republican senator from South Carolina on This Week on ABC.  I have been listening to John Conyers, John Conyers attorney, Senator Al Franken et al, ad nauseum.  I have been listening to the news media who apparently have nothing else to talk about other than the lurid details of all these men’s exploits.

I listen repeatedly to all these politicians dance around this action; try in some way to rationalize it, apologize for it, and completely deny it.  How do they do that?  The press tries to get all these people to take a stand, have an opinion, condemn the people who have committed these acts.  Instead we get Nancy Pelosi mumbling and trying to justify John Conyers as an ‘icon’.  Or we get Tim Scott who won’t offer an opinion on the President’s admitted behavior or commit to an opinion on Roy Moore, but rather wants to ‘let the people of Alabama decide’.  Decide what?—to choose a possible child molester over a Democrat?  Really?

The only one of all these sleazy men with a conscience appears to be Al Franken, but really Al—jamming your tongue in someone’s mouth without an invitation??  Come on!

It is all so disgusting!  What kind of beings are we?  What kind of men are ‘leading’ our country and setting themselves up as role models and icons as the best examples of our society?

It almost makes me want to run for office!  Surely I can be better than them!  Where is the human decency that is supposed to be imbued in all of us?  Why is there so much hypocrisy and lying about not only this, but just about everything!

I keep coming back to the only salvation we seem to have and that is at the ballot box.  Thank God for initiatives being taken by President Obama and Eric Holder to roll back the gerrymandering that the Republicans have been doing for the last 10 years.  Thank God for those people with honor and integrity who don’t give up in the face of the constant assault on our values by the likes of Trump and his dark Republican minions.  I firmly believe we will survive this time in our history, but it will not be without the resolve to honor the truth and those human ideals that founded our nation.