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Trumps duplicitous enablers have forfeited every last scrid of patriotism and every teeny hint of decency they may have had. Theyve wiped their feet on the flag, run the Constitution through a shredder and dishonored all those who sacrificed life or time for this country. Theyre like vicious vandals, marauding with pipe cutters and switchblades. They honor nothing except their power perch and the bubbling cesspool around it.
It may be my age or whats left of my pretend idealism. Whatever it is, it makes me frown and stare at something out the window. It makes my throat tighten and my eyes fill up. I think about all those things I taught my kids about compassion and kindness and honesty and gratitude. About not throwing books on the floor because theyre so important, about reaching out to help someone because its so necessary. About decency, even when nobody is watching.
Now my kids have kids, and their kids see Jim Jordan acting like hes sitting in the bleachers at a crash car derby rather than in a dead-serious hearing. My grandkids see members of the House and Senate defend racist policies and they hear the word pussy in a recording of the presidents voice. They see desperate people grabbing for rolls of paper towels during the presidents cruel hurricane game. They see people in their government repeating lies and trashing truth. Theyre told the news is fake, global warming is a hoax and police should be less gentle when they guide someone into the cruiser. Small things, maybe, but a reckless coarseness that makes mockery of whats written on the Statue of Liberty or in our Bill of Rights.
These Trump enablers act like history never happened, values never mattered, standards were never heeded. From Californias horrible wild fires to Flints deadly water to the borders kidnapped children, nothing did matter, not even Ivanka sitting at the table with heads of state. Abnormal to normal....overnight.
My country feels like Haiti looked after their worst hurricane. Nothing in its place, things scattered, mixed up, broken. Im waiting for that chunk of breakaway Republicans so many are calling for.
Just a few men and women who will finally decide that following Dear Leader on his criminal path is like volunteering to jump into a lake while tied to a cement block .
Karadeniz
(22,537 posts)soul. We were talking about those customers who cancel an hour before the appointment. Hairdresser can't fill that vacancy, her income goes down. That's ego, brain, which is self centered, doesn't care about others, etc. Your grandchildren, seeing lack of soul, can be taught to recognize brain vs. soul qualities. They'd probably find it interesting, as well as teaching them which mental engine to choose.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)Persist!