Falling, Falling, Falling...

Moment to moment, news cycle to news cycle, day to day -- we appear to be falling...into something. But what in God's name is it? Is it a government moving away from democracy into some kind of "bullied" capitalistic oligarchy?

Has the increasing speed of change overcome our democratic republic, and changed it irrevocably?
Has America itself morphed away from the "melting pot" to the "land of the white people?"

Can we slow this pace of incredible egotistical "making America 'great' again" into something that actually makes sense: preserving our heritage as a benevolent and kind nation for all future generations? Can we?

Witnesses to History

Are we all witnesses to history? Are we seeing, in unbelievable detail the piece-by-piece destruction of the American Dream -- by Americans?

Have we deliberately allowed ourselves to be so stupid, so estranged from normalcy; that we wish for and actually act out our own destruction? It is said that the "impulse" to suicide is always made with the "desire for something better in mind." Are we that desperate?

To Anyone I Know Who Voted For Trump, Especially My Relatives

You made a mistake. You drank the "koolaid." You bought the excuses, normalized the abnormal, and legitimatized the crook. You failed in your duty to really look into the candidates, and make an intelligent decision for all Americans. You voted your way because you always voted for that party.

You are a moron.

You watched Fox News and accepted it as the truth -- when all it did was appeal to your inner prejudices and stupidities. Yes, you are also a fool. You are gullible. You accepted "fair and balanced" news coverage from all the networks and sources because you think the world is really like television, and television of course always tells the truth.

You are a fool.

You also now think this "successful businessman" (by his own declaration) can do no wrong. He will be an inciter of change -- and you think that is all good. Because you don't know any better. You still think that "the Apprentice" was the best show on television.

You are a tasteless fool.

You are a Trump backer -- allied with white supremacists, the KKK, and all things retrograde and evil in the United States. I feel sorry for you, and your ignorance; but I cannot forgive you. You are the dross of history, the unintentional but causative anomalies of the devil's history among men.

Perhaps...

Perhaps America is unleashing a "new Mussolini" or a "white supremacist Hitler." If so, we have done it to ourselves. No outside influence, no untoward or illegal tampering with the vote counts. Just plain American stupidity married to anger, belligerent and knowing simplicity, and outright nihilism.

Yes, America has done it to herself. And we won't be "better" or more "united" when this horrible phase of our politics is over. Italy wasn't; Germany wasn't; and we won't be either. We will survive -- but not without splintering amongst our thinkers and pundits; not without grief, bitterness, and ridiculous polemics.

Perhaps...only the "balcony" or the "bunker" will set us free. We await the day.

Uncertainty is a Blessing ........Not

A human life is uncertain -- how long do we live, will we be happy, will this or that decision affect us down the road, will it all mean something? And so it is in Political America right now: we have the "not my President" contingent, the alt-Right crazies, the Black Lives Matter movement, the millennials, the feminists in fear of their rights, the immigrants in fear of their safety, the Muslims in fear of their possibilities in America, and everyone else --- just in fear!

Donald J. Trump has changed America -- and not for the better.  

Loyal Resistance to Trump

Along with many, many others -- I call for "resistance to Trump's plans." In particular using "internment camps" or something like them, to capture -- hold -- or even intimidate immigrants to the US of A.; building a ridiculous wall on our Southern border; unthinking and short-sighted "trade" wars with the other great countries of the world; a winking "bro-hood" with totalitarian countries whose leaders "admire" one another (Russia, Syria, North Korea, etc.); a disemboweling of the Affordable Health Care Act (thereby throwing millions into the whims of Capitalistic insurance companies and "market principles"); plans to pack the Supreme Court with alt-Right candidates, regardless of credentials; forming an obstructionist, anti-progressive, crypto-fascist dictatorship out of our Democratic Republic.

There are many other "bad" Trump ideas: a ban on Muslims in America (who would be next?); gutting the EPA and its health and safety regulations; opposing climate change initiatives because "science doesn't matter to a businessman unless it becomes a 'vested' self-interest"; and perhaps hundreds of other inane and anti-human "initiatives" pushing us all back to the age of the Robber Barons, of which Trump is a small-fingered version.

America is NOT Doomed

We have Donald J. Trump as our newest President. We have separate wars and military incursions going on in: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan (shhhh), Central Africa, Uganda (in pursuit of Boko Haram), in the Sudan (relief work), and all the other typical places where our military has a presence (the EU,
Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and many many other smaller places).

We  have pressures from everywhere: internally for jobs and more prosperity; internally from racists, xenophobes, misogynists, and crypto-fascists,white supremacists, anti-gays, homophobes, and others;
externally from Communists, America-haters, Nazis, religious fanatics of many stripes, and those seeking the "end of the world" as well.

And yet America will persist -- and succeed -- and thrive! Because we are trying to perfect ourselves, be better, and lead the world not to some specific place -- but to each country's best place, each individual's choice, every person's dream.  

America Must Survive Donald J. Trump !

The United States of America has always tried to be a world leader ... for "good." It has often been selfish, self-serving, arrogant, and stupid as well.

But Americans are a generous, open-hearted people as well --- giving long after other countries have given up, helping those (all those) in need of help. We are not usually mean-spirited, but rather are tuned to helping others as best we can.

But now Donald J. Trump is the president-elect of the United States of America, and barring some cataclysmic event -- will become its leader on January 20, 2017. We must survive this "leadership" and strive to retain our basic character. We must. It is the American thing to do.

We Have the Right...

We have the right to think whatever we want to think. We have the right to vote for whomever we wish to vote for. We have the right to believe in whatever we want to believe in. We have the right to speak out about our beliefs. We have the right to remain silent as well.

We have the right to be free. We have the right to live unafraid. We have the right to learn and understand those who wish to harm us. We have the right to resist oppression and ignorance. We have the right to support all the causes and ideas we espouse. We have the right to be ourselves.

We have the right to stop you or anyone from hurting us, or anyone else.

Believe in America, Not in Trump

We are witnessing the most hideous Presidential Campaign in modern history, thanks to the amoral and ridiculous diatribes delivered by Donald Trump. He lies, he prevaricates, he insinuates, he backbites, he undercuts, he mesmerizing the "stupid" amongst us to actually listen to his babble.

And people are voting for him? Why, in God's holy name would anyone vote for such a creature; such a specimen of insidious self-promotion?

He makes one point about smaller government (given to him by his alt-right handlers) --- and adds a hundred lies and promises of "revenge" to it. He is a moronic and thoughtless jerk, hardly worthy of a mention in anyone's conversation -- except he is the "preferred candidate of all those righteous, god-fearing Republicans. They unfortunately-- value power and possibility of power, more than truth, more than justice, more than honesty itself.