Friday, July 27, 2018

Is it HOT Enough for You?


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Well, it’s time to wake up, everyone!  We have reached an interesting tipping point.

This is the summer of our discontent: 

--The temperatures are higher than they have ever been.  Our planet is no longer the place it was 30 years ago, and it will not return to its milder state for a long, long  time--if ever.  Fires.  Floods.  Storms. Only getting worse.  Was trying to torpedo the International Climate Accord a smart decision?  Is  promoting coal and more fossil fuel consumption really the answer?

Our country’s administration is straight from ‘Bizarro-land’ (remember those Superman comic episodes where Superman was not himself, but rather a rough hewn copy of himself both physically and mentally?). 

--Suddenly tearing families asunder and not reuniting the children to their mothers and fathers is somehow OK;

--One of our major political parties (or what is left of it) is committed to NOT finding out how our main global adversary attacked us in 2016 and is beginning to do it again; our Commander in Chief is supporting our enemy!

--Our President is beginning to unravel as we find out more and more about his mendacious rise to power.

Those of us who have been relatively powerless to stop, or slow the inexorable deconstruction of our democratic society wait for the great awakening....it never seems to come.

However, things may be about to change.

The honest truth is that the outsized voices of the Republicans, white supremacists, crazies who can’t think for themselves are just that—outsized.  In reality the portion of our population who are sycophants to our President—his ‘base’—is relatively small….only about 25%.  We have let their outsized voices drown out reason.  As a result we have ‘The Trump Era’. 

The inevitability of the midterm elections has become palpable and the restless majority of the population is uneasy and ready to ‘right’ the imbalance.  Those who believed that Trump's ‘solutions’ were brilliant are having second thoughts:

-The tariff fiasco is making Trump’s believers hurt!  Imagine that!  Farmers, steelworkers, small businesses suddenly paying more for raw materials or unable to get decent prices for their products are causing people to wonder if they have been mislead.  What is the plan?  There is none—be patient!  “Tariffs are great!”, says Trump.

--A substantial segment of Republicans (people who we elected!) are trying to impeach the Acting AG in an effort to discredit and undermine the Mueller probe.  Why? 
Republican majorities in all major oversight committees consistently oppose and reject any effort to uncover the truth about what happened in 2016 when Russia attacked our country!  Why??  Would patriots attempt to stop the effort to reveal how our country was attacked?  Could it be that during that 2 hour meeting in Helsinki last week, Trump and Putin confirmed and refined their plan to continue to destabilize the US by pushing harder for actions to undermine our alliances with the EU, Canada, Mexico and Nato?

--The Cohen tapes have revealed the ‘man behind the curtain’—Alan Weisselberg, Trumps CFO.  Now that he has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, the kimono is going to be lifted.  That is a big bad thing for Trump.  Weisselberg knows where all the money came from and went to for the last 50 years in the Trump business empire.  I think Bob Mueller and we are going to be finding out some not so nice stuff about who holds the puppet strings on Trumps head.

--As all these nooses keep tightening around the head of ‘the greatest President ever’, his behavior becomes more erratic and cruel.  Yesterday his administration decided to bar a ‘pool’ television press journalist from a bona-fide news event in the Rose Garden because of ‘impertinent questions’ she was asking…..about whether Trump felt betrayed by Michael Cohen!  Puhleeze!  I wonder what that means for Freedom of the Press?  Thankfully even Fox News joined the uproar created by that folly.

Have we ever seen as effective a deconstruction of our society as we see today at the hands of a group of people we elected? 

Perhaps we are at the crossroads.  The national unease and exhaustion from the last two years has made many of those who supported the Trump ascension question whether they want another two years of increasing chaos; or whether they could even conceive of another 4 years beyond that!

The midterm elections are imminent.  Throw open the windows! Get out your giant bottles of 409. Let’s clean out the moldy rot of decay that has been the agenda of those who were elected to support Trump’s great solutions for our democratic republic, and get back to promoting American ideals and the Rule of Law.  Control of Congress will return power to the people.  VOTE DEMOCRATIC in November.



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