Aruthur C. Clarke, had it right.
Every day it’s the same. Netanyahu, turns Gaza to dust, with the apparent intention of leaving nothing alive. Putin bombards Ukraine, slaughtering thousands of innocents, kidnapping any children that happen to be left alive.
In the U.S., gun violence remains the leading cause of death among children and teens while Trump, sucks his thumb and orders more gold leaf for the Oval, calling in federal troops to attack the effect while ignoring the cause.
Tyranny, it would seem, thrives on chaos. Like two meaningless summits followed by the FBI raiding the private home of John Bolton, in Bethesda, on the same day the Dept. of Justice is releasing at least some of the Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. Fascinating.
It’s been said that if you frighten people enough, they’ll let you do almost anything. First though, you”ll have to muzzle the legitimate press – or at least convince most of the people that legitimate journalism is really fake news while blowing so much smoke that nobody can remember what you were up to just a couple of days ago.
Epstein, who? Remember him? The guy who allegedly hanged himself in a federal prison cell while the guards were taking a break and the camera mysteriously broke down, akin to the 18 minute gap in Nixon’s Watergate tapes. Remember Rose Mary Woods and the 18 minute gap? We’ve seen this one before. But Richard Nixon wasn’t even close to Trump, when it comes to the art of filling the air with smoke.
In Moscow, Putin smiles, confident his useful idiot continues to abide by his will. But what is this hold Putin has on Trump? What can it be that is so powerful that it continues to force the President of the United States to serve as a lackey to a Russian dictator? Surely the President being so seriously co-opted is a security risk to the country and the world that cannot be ignored?
And yet, here we are.
Peace, is increasingly unthinkable. We are monkeys with guns, giving some of the worst among us the power to create our reality.
Even most of the European Union, including two nuclear-armed nations, arriving at our front door on only a moment’s notice, feels like a meaningless gesture. The message they bring is critical. It is pointed. It is a message of life or death. But there is no one there to receive it.
Every day begins with the same horrible hopeless feeling, as though we are without leaders. Leaving nothing but madness, only a kind of self imposed malignancy guiding our path while our immoral national compass is exposed by South Park.