"It Is What It Is"....and It Ain't Good!

Let's face it.  Our country is spiraling down and the bottom has yet to be reached.  That is because we have no choice but to endure the next 5 months with Donald Trump running the country.  Even unbiased observers can see that we have no unified plan to control the pandemic and we are going to lose upwards of 300,000 American lives between now and December.  In addition there are overt actions being taken by Trump cronies to crumble the post office in advance of the election to foil mail-in balloting; deliver census information destructively early so Trump can corrupt the re-apportionment process by not including harder to count populations, cover up scandals at the State Department,  and other egregious actions to destroy our democratic institutions.

 

There are too many efforts to lie to us, mislead us with false information about everything from the weather to a coverup about our ambassador to England trying to perhaps bribe the English government to move the British Open to Donald Trump's Turnberry Golf Course!  There is complete incompetence by the Republican party and the Senate in formulating a pandemic relief bill in Congress.  They don't even know what they want to propose!  The Republican senators have been asleep for so long that they are completely out of touch with the majority of the country.  Instead, they held a Judiciary Committee hearing this week about Hillary Clinton's email pseudo-scandal from four years ago, and tried to ambush former Asst. Attorney General Sally Yates into admitting some fantasy about spying on the 2016 Trump campaign by the Obama administration.  It's insane when you consider all the really important things they should be concerned about!

 

What any legitimate President and Congress would be doing is finding ways to make mail-in voting safer and more secure--that is if you are interested in preserving our democratic principles.  How about a national logistical plan to distribute testing materials, PPE equipment and other supplies, and a unified plan for lowering the infection curve?  Do we see any of that?  No, the best the President and the Republicans can do is say about the virus is, "It'll just go away!  It is what it is....."

 

Honestly, is there any reason to support this guy and his sycophantic supporters for four more years of this kind of horrific leadership?  Is there any reason to believe that he or his party can somehow fix our devastated economy when there is no understanding or acceptance of the science behind the pandemic's ravaging our country?  The current leaders don't understand that stopping the virus is the key to resurrecting the economy and the plight of the unemployed.  They are just too stupid.

 

And what about all those stupid people who somehow don't get that wearing a mask might actually depress the spread of the virus?  Are the hormones and greedy desires of all those young people, who believe they are immortal, so strong that they cannot fathom that their selfishness will be the cause of 60,000 unnecessary deaths between now and December?  Who are these people?  Hmmm ---they are the same people who love Donald Trump, who leads them over the cliff of ignorance into the depths of despair ---for all of us.

 

Michelle Obama revealed her nagging and persistent depression from the current state of our nation and the nefarious people running things.  It was an immediate touchstone for me, and I daresay 65% of the rest of the US.  This feeling of despair that there is really nothing any of us can do right now is pervasive.  The only thing we can do is move as 'one' in a unified way to repudiate all these people, and essentially 'run them out of town' in the election in November.  As I watch the commentators talk about the sorry state of affairs, I do notice that the people they bring on for discussion are young people in their 30s and 40s.  They are intelligent and angry and motivated.  I am seeing mayors of small towns and larger cities.  I am listening to researchers, doctors, attorneys, journalists, businessmen and women, politicians.  They all are in positions of ascending power and they are energized, and my belief is that they will save the day.

 

What we are witnessing is no less than the end of an epoch.  There is a new breed of citizen that is ascending to power and they will remake our country. I believe that we are going to see a tsunami of intelligent, engaged citizens who will displace the current Republican leaders whose only purpose is to try to engage in methods and actions to maintain power and  oppress current citizens who they consider irrelevant.  It may take a few election cycles to rid ourselves of them, but I believe the process will begin in earnest in November.

 

I just hope there is something left to save.