If your current residence isn’t the underside of a rock, you’ve noticed social media and news sources have become a battleground in recent months. On this I bet we all can agree – it’s really sad and extremely unsettling to witness a country so divided. There will always be issues we can’t all agree on, but this level of divisiveness and anger is alarming.
Remember the Civil War? – North vs. South right here in these United States of America. Up until recently, for me the idea of such a thing seemed pretty far out there and certainly not repeatable. My limited understanding of that period of time was that the war was fought over the moral issue of slavery but in truth, economics and political control played just as big a part. Interesting side note here – Both the North and the South brought God into the equation, both believing their views were supported by God, that he was on their side and some went as far as to say God would determine the length and outcome of the war itself. Ultimately, morality won.. not because a God inserted himself or that all involved parties finally saw the obvious inhumanity in the practice of slavery. The North had more muscle, it was that simple.
I often hear “God is finally back in the White House!” I wish we’d keep God out of it. First of all… whose God – yours? or Joe’s across the street? There are many religions and yet we all got here the same way, however that turns out to be. There’s the hypocrisy that tends to keep company with religion and so for that reason I wish we could keep our own sense of religion or God in our hearts, but leave it out of our government. I’m convinced when the Orange Scream heard the call for God to return to the White House, he thought they were referring to him.
So who has more muscle in this day and age? Right now I’m feeling pretty helpless as I watch the newly elected President of the United States and his cohorts run roughshod over our government. I am not a sore-loser lefty or whining Democrat. My views run pretty much down the middle so those labels don’t apply to someone like me. I’m feeling pretty helpless as I see friends and colleagues willfully ignore some pretty awful practices in favor of what they believe is the promise of a Better America, for which they have seen zero evidence to suggest that’s what they’ll get. The hypocrisies pile up, the daily lies are consumed, I mean he lies about stupid little things just for ramblings’ sake. The GOP seems giddy with their new power and for all those who cheer them on I ask… how do you accept the obvious ills?
Supporters were thrilled with the mantra – Drain the Swamp. What you’re looking at in the new White house are the wealthy elite who have been tending the swamp for decades. Hell, the Education Secretary pick is a billionairess, inexperienced in the field, who’s family has donated 200 million to the republican party. She failed the hearings miserably.. and yet. The fact that a radical person like Bannon is at the right hand of the President speaks volumes. That’s swamp muck right there, the very thing Orange Scream supporters were railing against just months ago.
The GOP just lifted a ban on dumping coal debri in streams. A friend argued with me that the jobs are more important than the clean water. Not fake news: If we don’t protect our clean water resources it won’t matter how many jobs were available in the coal industry if we’re dead. Our natural resources are limited and we abuse them daily. We all live in the same camp, we all need to protect it because it won’t last forever, this is not rocket science. House republicans are writing a bill to abolish the EPA – which was created to protect human health and the environment by enforcing regulations based on laws passed by congress. Why would we want to abolish such a thing?
They’re back to taking away land from the Indians for pipelines because the more affluent people around them don’t want the pipelines in their backyard. We all know that history, right? Where is our humanity?
Many who voted for him hoped the President would somehow become more “Presidential” once he took office. Not a chance. He used the National Prayer Breakfast, standing before religious leaders and diplomats, to talk about Arnold schwarzenegger and Apprentice ratings… direct quote…
We had tremendous success on The Apprentice and, when I ran for president, I had to leave the show,” “And they hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger to take my place. And we know how that turned out. The ratings went right down the tubes. It’s been a total disaster,” said Trump, who remains a producer on the NBC series. “Mark will never, ever bet against Trump again. And I want to just pray for Arnold, if we can. For those ratings. Okay?”
The Orange Scream’s Black History Month Remarks…
Last month, we celebrated the life of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., whose incredible example is unique in American history. You read all about Dr. Martin Luther King a week ago when somebody said I took the statue out of my office. It turned out that that was fake news. Fake news. The statue is cherished, it’s one of the favorite things in the—and we have some good ones. We have Lincoln, and we have Jefferson, and we have Dr. Martin Luther King. But they said the statue, the bust of Martin Luther King, was taken out of the office. And it was never even touched. So I think it was a disgrace, but that’s the way the press is. Very unfortunate.
This is the face of America. This is the man we elected to the highest office in the land.
A friend of mine who desperately wants to believe in this man because he is a dyed in the wool republican said ” Why is all this surprising, he’s doing what he did during his campaign, it’s nothing new”. Actually, his behavior is not surprising, What’s surprising is… I didn’t think he would actually get away with it. I didn’t think the GOP would bow to his ego so willingly, overstep and overreach so grandly and so completely. I had HOPED… once the Orange Scream came to the office and felt the gravity, the full weight of his position, that he would indeed.. become more “Presidential”. Surely those around him would rein him in at the very least.
It has become abundantly clear, it’s not happening. For this American in these United States, I am embarrassed for all of us and I worry for our children’s future. There should be no great conflicts of interest among us, we should all feel that we are on the same team. We should all be getting that vibe from our government, certainly our leader. That should be the message above all. Don’t we all want job opportunities, decent education for our youth, affordable health care, legal immigration, a strong military, fair trade, equality for all, justice and liberty for all?
Someone tell me how we have become.. so .. incompatible.