These
times are so uncertain
There’s
a yearning undefined
People
filled with rage
We
all need a little tenderness
How can love survive in such a
graceless age?
….Don
Henley, Mike Campbell, J.D. Souther
McConnell
and Ryan and their fellow Republican legislators lived through eight years of
the worst President in my lifetime; who just happened to be a very partisan
Democrat. They spoke openly about what
they would do when they eventually (and
the worm always turns, doesn’t it?) were put back into a position of
power. Now that their wish has been
granted, they are not pleased with the terms of the granting. They do not like their Republican President. They carp at his tweets. They belittle his sometimes absurd rhetorical
adventures that tend to wander off of the fact-based pathways. When in his presence, their body language
belies their contempt for his claim to the Presidency that, in their judgments,
should have been filled by a more conventional party man. Given the corrupt
history of Clinton and Obama presidential pardons, they nonetheless ridicule
Trump’s pardon of Sheriff Joe. They are
very much like the dog chasing the car who knows not what to do with the
vehicle once the capture is complete. As
incompetent and misguided as their Democratic rivals are, they are on the verge
of yielding back legislative power to a self-righteous, pious, arrogant, and
corrupt bunch of liberals. They have
lost sight of the one standard that they will be measured by; the first priority of government is to GOVERN. If they do not find within themselves the
capacity to accept this presidential blessing in the form of the tarnished
Donald Trump, they will fritter away the best hope of meaningful government
reform for decades to come. They had
best find their elixir and dutifully take their daily doses of Trump
Tolerance. He may at times be a
loudmouth buffoon who shoots recklessly from the hip with no regard for the
truth; but he is their Republican
President. Just dwell for a moment
or two on the realities of a Hillary Clinton administration… Trump looks pretty
good.
The
Democratic Party is also toying with its own form of self-destruction. Will they follow the antifa, the Black Lives
Matter radicals who see racism in every eastern sunrise, the Bernie Sanders
socialists who want to throw everything from everybody into one big pie and
then divvy it out to the public in common metal platters, the eastern female
Senator of false Indian heritage who wanders about flirting with her political
ambitions while engaging in fairy tale policy fantasies, and the Schumer/Pelosi
leadership that advocates pure obstructionism in place of honest debate and
alternative ideas? Polls be damned; does
anyone really believe there is a
Democrat, or Republican, out there today that could defeat Donald Trump for
President? As flawed as he is, he
continues to address that yearning of most (at
least a plurality or minor majority) Americans for the anti-politician who
will try something other than WDC business
as usual.
Democrats
and Republicans, get over yourselves; Trump beat all comers in the primaries;
Trump beat Hillary in the general; Trump is President until the next
election. Make…this…thing…work.
And
how crazy has our government become when we leap completely through the looking
glass to empower Robert Mueller to form a shadow Justice Department with his
glorious cast of partisan Democratic donors and supporters that spends millions
of taxpayer dollars to chase ephemeral conspiracies while real criminals who have committed real crimes continue to serve in real positions in our real
government? What an absolute farce! Never before has a more ridiculous and
unproven political episode been foisted upon a more confounded public in a more
stupefying fashion.
And
Charlottesville… the latest spark for this eternal racial American angst that is the
wound that will not heal; the scab that is continually pricked. The hard truth is that as long as racism
remains a cottage industry for any number of vested interests and individuals,
it will not go away. Only when we cease
to differentiate between those of different races will we come together as
Americans first. The regrets must be
buried. The sins must be forgiven. The retribution must be set aside. Attitudes must be changed. The dark sides of racism must be dispensed
with; along with the patronizing entitlements promoted by those who
self-benefit from them.
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The
all-too-few times that our President has stuck to the script and presented a presidential decision or address, when
he has actually done something that receives fairly universal acclaim as being the right thing to do, the media has
been AWOL. Hillary Clinton is still putting out books trying to
explain how terrible a decision the nation made by not selecting her as
president and “how in the world did that
happen?”. Obama administration
holdovers, embedded throughout the government, continue to obstruct and
sabotage any initiative made by the current administration. The Federal Judiciary is riddled with
maverick liberals who foist their own brand of personal civil and social
philosophy upon any litigants unfortunate enough to appear in their
courts. Democrats are still in denial
about their minority status; Republicans cannot find contentment with the
Republican in the White House. Black
radicals fight with White supremacists in city streets; while anarchists are in
literal combat with alt-right believers throughout our nation. The one common thread that weaves amongst all
of these and many more vigilante groups of professional protesters is their
disregard for the law and civil authority, their lack of respect for personal
property, and their total allegiance to a cause that currently serves as their
flavor du jour. While the Middle Eastern
cauldron continues to boil, the fat boy emperor in North Korea plays his own
personal version of Game of Thrones,
the dark and ruthless shirtless one schemes in the Kremlin, Europe romps
through its various forms of identity crisis, and the other regions and
continents of the planet deal with their own dramas… the United States of
America stands in the center of it all in a state of utter confusion; wallowing
in self-denial about how ridiculous she appears, how lost and rudderless she
has become, and rapidly losing sight of exactly
how essential her leadership and stability is to the rest of
civilization. It is time for all
involved to get down to the Heart of the
Matter. It is time for a
re-emergence of statesmanship. It is
time for selfless pursuit of a more efficient and effective government that
serves all of its people with transparency, honesty, respect, and dignity. It is time to redefine exactly what government should do and exactly how much government we can afford. By wishing for those things to return, it
goes without saying that I believe they are gone.
