Would You?

I find it difficult. Which, of course, is an understatement like calling an Ironman cake. But as much as it challenges, it simply must be done. The better we become at doing uncomfortable, important things, the better life will be for everyone, not just the immediate benefactors of short term ego gratifications. Or those who don't know any better.

What I am finding difficult is to stay positive. More, perhaps, to keep from using the same negative, hateful and violent energy (as tactics) that the 'other side' employs. As you know by now, I am 'forced' to watch Fox News when I care for my 86 year-old dyed-in-the-red-wool conservative republican father. They do a fine job of irritating, unnerving, frightening and spinning whatever semi-treasonous scandal happens to be spewing from the West Wing cesspool in the current news cycle to an audience sitting mindlessly nodding heads in approval. Most of the time I pretend not to listen as I scramble eggs and percolate coffee but occasionally I hear a zingers of lies that would make both Hope Hicks and Sarah Sanders blush. The sad news is, horrifically, that over just 40% of the American population approve of this felonious administration's behavior with a full 80% of the republican majority in the House and Senate likewise in agreement.

Yo stooges, money talks eh?

The long-term quick-fix (an oxymoron of delicious bi-partisan ramification) is to VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT. And we have been doing that to great success of late, even causing that bastion of bullshit, Ted Cruz to comment that democrats 'will be crawling over broken glass' to vote (him out) in the mid-terms.

What I really want to relay (other than the headline news that Ted Cruz finally said something truthful) is the degree to which the Nazi tactic of 'resistance fatigue' is playing out. We get tired of hearing the same deceitful crap every day. It is called psychic stress. They have stacked the deck with a militarized police force, superior weaponry and laws overwhelmingly in favor of the use of deadly force. All to keep us from protesting the sordid state of our country and the constitutional crisis in which we live. A place we used to call the land of the free and a government we used to call a democracy.

This I find difficult to counter. As has been rightly stated, one cannot change an evil using the same energy that created it. That means we cannot fight fire with fire or extract an eye for an eye as we will accomplish nothing but end up with a smoking heap of one-eyed jerks.  Good Lord, this was one of Jesus of Nazareth's primary tenants. Outside of making hypocrisy a felony, until we get big lobby money out of the prostitution ring currently running in that big white DC whore-house, change will be slow and painful.

The purveyors of this madness are the elites and mega corporations buying influence at the highest level. The souls of our elected officials, and those appointed by the elected, have been bought to do the dirty work of the corporations. I find this troubling as well as difficult, because, and please answer this single question with as much honestly as you can:

If I was a lobbyist for (pick one) Exxon-Mobil, Squibb, The NRA, Wal-Mart, Boeing, The NFL, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T,Google, GM, Kaiser Permenente, Phillip Morris, CitiBank, Home Depot, or some other slimy entity offering you ONE MILLION dollars to cast your vote in our box….

….would you?