It's been almost 3 years since my late wife passed and as many of you already know I've been on a grief journey. Not sure I like the word 'journey' since it has been appropriated -- in the stupidest manner -- by marketing people and purveyors of everything from dish soap to tortilla chips.
Today, one day before our most consequential election, EVER, I find myself tragically saddened again. Grieving for the loss of America, a country I thought I knew and loved.
Clearly I don't.
And have not recognized this once-great nation for close to ten years. The fact that we may be inviting a further cleaving of America tomorrow is cause for even more despair.
We once had dignity. We've always had loonies on the fringe right and the fringe left. But they were kept on the edges by bright men and women who had more than a 6th grade education in Civics and History. Those educated people have left the building. Or they've consumed enough Cheetos and Kool Aid to have forgotten their responsibility to the Constitution. And to the belief that was at one time the glue that bonded us all.
RIP Dignity.
We once had compassion. There's a huge statue standing in the harbor of NYC. It was given to us by France. In recognition of what made America great, our willingness to accept poor, unwanted, or politically persecuted peoples, from all over the globe, and give them the freedom they deserved and the opportunity to better their lives. And in turn better the lives of all Americans. A rising tide lifts all boats. Now, it just lifts yachts of billionaires and well connected millionaires.
RIP Compassion.
We once had morality. This one is, or was, a work in progress. For a people who claim to abide by biblical values, we often put those values on the back shelf in favor of convenience and greed. A hundred years ago there were places and businesses that were "restricted" from the folks who gave us the first half of our allegedly precious Judeo-Christian values.
And for the longest time, people of color were not treated as people but as 3/5ths of a human. In many instances they still are. How far have we descended? Just days ago, the monster's comedian took to the stage in NYC, the most diverse city on the planet, and said Puerto Rico (an American territory that should be a state) was, "a floating island of garbage."
RIP Morality
We once had sanity. I'm going to violate the "Rule of Threes" to add a fourth loss here. Because in the non-stop gushing of douchebaggery that flows from the monster's mouth, the latest has left me gobsmacked, which is not easy to do after 10 years of his obscene presence. He took to the airwaves, aided by Tucker Carlson, and suggested that Liz Cheney, a former Congresswoman, daughter of a Vice President, and staunch conservative one time ally, should be put before a FIRING SQUAD for exercising her 1st Amendment rights and disagreeing with his candidacy. That's not President-talk, that's Dictator-talk!
RIP Sanity
What made us the greatest nation on Earth has now made us the greatest disappointment.
RIP America
Editorial update: Since this writing, our ex-Potus (Phellator Of The United States of America) has mimicked Phellatio on a microphone AND called for the murder of American Journalists. Jesus Christ, what's it gonna take to wake Americans up to this UnAmerican Beast?
