Karma

The scourge has finally delivered its karmic revenge on perhaps the one human who so richly deserved it the most.  Trump is sick with the virus that he has downplayed and derided as puny and inconsequential.  His haughty attitude is finally crushed by the invisible force that he tried to lie to us about for the last nine months.  It would be so easy to just say, "Too bad, just desserts!"

 

One of my friends whose opinion I see from time to time on Facebook wrote, "To any of my Facebook friends who have had the insensitivity to make fun of our country’s President being diagnosed with Covid, you obviously haven’t known or lost someone from this disease. And if you are Jewish, and just asked Gd to sign and seal you in the Book of Life, it didn’t take you long to sin in the New Year, did it?!"

 

She is right.

 

However, I do not make fun of it.  I am saddened by it.  I am saddened by the collateral damage to so many caused by Trump's disregard for truth, public health guidelines, and sensitivity to the danger to others.  As I said, Trump's slap in the face by reality is richly deserved, but the possible pain in his future that will be experienced by his family and our country is a tragedy that wasn't necessary if only he had told the truth.  If he had had respect for the science, had done his job by preparing the country to fight this pandemic properly, we would not have over 200,000 families mourning the incalculable loss we are victims of right now.

 

His disregard for the safety of others was overridden by his own self-aggrandizement.  Nothing was, and is, more important than sublimating the truth about this public health emergency in the service of his lust for power and his rabid pursuit of re-election.  This entire drama we have been living through for the past three years is approaching a climax soon, complete with surprise events and plot twists and turns.  The past several weeks have given us a clear view of the choice we all must make on November 3rd.  The 'debate' the other night was the most clear example of what we have to look forward to with the re-election of Trump.  In the aftermath of that event, we are seeing who really has respect for the principles of democracy and who doesn't.  

 

I am so tired of enduring it all day after day.  As I have said many times, the biggest surprise since Trump was elected is that I was caught completely unaware of how big a portion of my countrymen were so ignorant and unaware of their own manipulation.  Either that or they are just simply corrupt.  Anyone who can support a person that separates children from their parents is not worthy of being an American (at least the way I define an American).  Anyone who supports the leader of our country who simply disregards the rule of law and bends the Constitution to serve his own selfish needs is not worthy of being an American.  Anyone who supports the leader of our country daily undermining the sacred privilege of voting and  constantly sowing the seeds of distrust in the validity of our electoral process with absolutely no evidence, is not worthy of being an American.  Anyone who supports our national leader not condemning violence and right-wing white supremacy militias is not worthy of being an American.

 

If those are the people who ultimately control our country after this next election, then I feel like a person without a country.  The country I belong to does not sanction minority rule obtained by rigging elections and sanctioning voter suppression.  However, the real losers here are our children who will be forced to grow up with these people as role models.  The moment of truth approaches......will you honor truth, empathy, humanity, integrity?  Somehow, to me, that is the antithesis of support for Donald J. Trump.