There’s a toll
road ahead. Decisions will have to be made and are already being made. The cost
for getting on is real expensive. The poor, infirm, middle class, women,
children, immigrants, labor force, seniors and just basically the have-nots so
far are the ones that are going to be paying the toll. The ultra-rich are getting a pass along with
the really rich, regular rich and just rich. The wheels are already in motion.
Life will get harder for the rest of us. A lot of people won’t make it. In
other words, people will die. Poverty kills. Not having enough money to pay for
insurance kills. Politicians are getting ready to kill a lot of people. People
will be sent back to countries where they will be killed. Evil kills. The
environment will suffer. There will be lots of collateral damage. A very small
select group will add to their fortunes. They’ll receive accolades from their
peers and supporters. Tyrants large and small will always have their
supporters. Kings always had willing serfs.
There has been
this vulnerable portion of our population that for the last 20 years or so has
been conditioned to accept and believe the worst about certain segments of our
society. There has been a veritable carpet bombardment through electronic media
from email in the beginning stages to and through social media platforms that
wasn’t possible in the days of printed media and traditional television alone.
It has been a misinformation operations dreamland. Pure fabrication has taken
place on a grand scale.
It hasn’t been
real. It’s been conspiracy this, conspiracy that. Things that meant nothing
were made to look like something. Bogus cause and effect: this has happened, so
that means this must have happened. So and so knows so and so and they know. I
know someone that knows. An official source says. Everybody knows.
Compounding
the problem is there were real ugly truths scattered among the rubbish throughout
the last few decades. What would have been laughable became possible to
believe. The National Enquirer went mainstream. The population was primed and
ready. Coupled within all this is the very human trait of tending to believe
the worst of human nature. The constant struggle between good and evil has
tipped. The pile of deceptions became too great. One falsehood could be exposed
but in the meantime there were a thousand more new ones fabricated. The power
of the keyboard and software.
But these
things that happened were their own truths, nothing more. Real deceptions when
they were called out were acknowledged. These real truths were ugly enough on
their own. The country didn’t need all the make believe ugliness that was added
on. The shape of our culture was made much worse than it needed to be. It
served a variety of agendas to make that happen.
Three people
can keep a secret if two of them are dead.* There’s guilty and then there’s
guilty. People wanting someone to be guilty does not make them guilty. Here’s a
simple hard uncomplicated truth. Just one of many. In regards to both President Bushes, Obama and
the Clintons even with all the lies and deceit both real and imagined have
committed no crimes that they can be charged with. It isn’t due to lack of
evidence. There is no evidence except for the imaginings and desire from many
for there to be. There might possibly be evidence to charge them with but there
is no evidence to convict them with. Troves of make believe evidence and
opinions exist. Thousands of people from all walks of society and a variety of
disciplines would be necessary for the magnitude of cover ups that would be
necessary to keep them from being charged, if they were guilty.
Four were
Presidents. One will never be President. Donald Trump is President. These are
hard truths. That’s just the way it is. That’s another hard truth. This isn’t
about the former Presidents or any of those that might have been President.
This is about where we’re at as a nation. As a nation we have to deal with this
situation. Where do we go from here? Resistance isn’t a plan. It’s an action or
actions. Impeachment isn’t a plan. It’s an action, a process.
This isn’t
about impeachment. Some of the same professionals that have investigated in the
past along with some new people will do their jobs again and investigate our
current President and various associates just as they have done in the past
with other administrations. What they will decide to do for the good of our
nation when it comes to moving forward remains to be seen. (There have already
been a couple guilty pleas that we know of.) Obviously this is something that
needs to be done. The problem this nation faces goes far deeper than just one
man or woman.
Wagons have
been circled. Heels have been dug in. Reality is no longer an issue because the
reality of the situation is unacceptable. Zealots don’t need to be morally or
ethically right; they just need to advance their position at any cost and they
don’t care who pays for it.
People are
going to die.
*Benjamin Franklin in 1735. (Human nature hasn’t changed.)