Our country
has been infected by a malignant consciousness that glorifies idiocy. *
Anyone who
believes we are winning this pandemic war is living in a delusional, alternative
reality.
Thursday,
August 6, we commemorated the 75th anniversary of the first atomic
bomb dropped on a city, Hiroshima, Japan. One hundred forty thousand**
women, children and men were killed in the initial blast.
To date,
more than one hundred sixty thousand*** women, children and men have died from
Covid 19. The virus has been on our shores for what seems like an interminable seven months with no
indication it will burn itself out in the near future.
How many
more women, children and men will have to die before we call out this
administration out for what it is…an inept, cruel, greedy, dishonest, and corrupt
swamp.
I watched
Larry Kudlow, Director of the United States National Economic Council, brag
about how our economy is bouncing back. For whom is it bouncing back? Tell that
to the mother or father who can’t feed their family, waiting in line for
donated food. Tell that to the families that fear eviction because they can’t
work and don’t have money to pay their rent or mortgage.
I dare Mr.
Kudlow, in his expensive pinstriped suit with an equally expensive pocket
square, to go into an underserved neighborhood and tell them how great the
economy is doing, how their 401K’s are performing beyond expectations.
We pay
taxes. Those taxes are supposed to be used to help us lift ourselves up into
better lives for our children and our communities. We send, by voting, men and women to Washington to be our voice. To help create
opportunity for everyone, not just their elitist friends and donors. Instead,
many of them go to Washington to become rich, raping us financially, burdening
generations with the debt of their excess.
Donald Trump
bragged he would “drain the swamp”, once elected. He IS the swamp. And he has
filled it with ferocious, voracious, rapacious, dangerous, ugly, racist reptiles.
We have
become the 13th Ward in the Hunger Games, our President is a parody
of President Coriolanus Snow and Washington is The Capital of Panem.
If we think
it can’t happen here, we are wrong.
Beirut,
Lebanon was once called the Paris of the Middle East. Today, they are literally
in shambles after a shattering explosion destroyed a lot of the city. And
because of the corruption and greed of their government officials, they are
incapable of helping their people. They don’t have the social and manpower
infrastructure in place to mitigate the catastrophe. Instead of planning and
putting emergency systems in place, they took the peoples’ money and used it to
enrich themselves.
Sound
familiar? Where are infrastructure programs, the factory jobs, the middle
class jobs, our President promised to get elected?
We cannot
stay silent any longer. Let’s not delude ourselves that the United States of
America can’t become the next Lebanon or forbid, Syria.
Our mantra should be, vote, vote, vote this administration out.
I still have
hope. There are a multitude of us who are awakened and see this evil for what it
is. There are many wicked smart Americans in powerful positions
throughout the country, including Washington, that see this administration as a
dangerous, aberrant anomaly. So, let’s help them. Let’s stand up and speak up.
We have the
power. We have the light. We can end this nightmare.
*Paraphrase
Marianne Williamson and Russell Brand
**Newsweek
***New York
Times