I can’t remember where I left off the last time I wrote something for these pages. I guess it’s the “mad cow disease” that goes with my increasing age. I believe it had something to do with my promise to hang in there and do better after a long absence due to fatigue and disgust with the current state of political affairs.
That being said, I can’t keep my mouth shut given the lunacy, avarice and disreputable behavior that is continually displayed by what used to be the Grand Old Party. With the Republican Party gone we find ourselves with a one party system that can’t function because it is constantly kneecapped by radical thugs masquerading as Republicans. Think the likes of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Our former president is selling snake oil while his sycophants in Congress refuse to take action on anything they believe would reflect well on the Democrats. In the meantime, Washington burns and major crises, domestic and international, fester and get worse. The nightly news reports are so surreal as to make me pinch myself to see if I might not be in Kansas anymore.
Totally agree. Each and every day is a head-scratcher as it seems the usual suspects try to “out-crazy” each other. The arrogance and diviciveness being pushed right now are beyond shocking and appalling as there is clearly no attempt or desire to work together for the overall benefit of the country. Instead, the playbook seems to be set on winning by intimidating, insulting, and marginalizing others. While we’ve seen this act before, I am overwhelmed as I realize we have never seen it on this scale, and the danger to our future is real.
Global warming
It’s alarming to see the consequence of excessive heat to you and me. The misguided politicians that are deniers need only see the diminished ice caps that drown low lying ground with flooding that destroys homes and lives with merciless impunity. Burning heat in the middle of winter for our Latin American neighbors is that normal, not to a rational you or me. But our current Republican politicians are driven by greed and hypocrisy. They cloak their deeds with a false label calling themselves conservatives, when in reality hypocrisy is their motto and ill will to humanity. Denying the society of health care, social security and supporting global warming. Red is the color that represents the party for the hell they are imposing on our citizens, and humanity.