Five Months Away

 It is hard to be happy. It takes effort. It requires constant vigilance coupled with the learned ability to transcend the mundane. While relentlessly bombarded by powerful images of fear, and therefore your need to respond, it takes a special type of courage to withstand the negative, flow past the neutral and stay positive. 

I will tell you this, today I, again, am deeply ashamed of what we have become. The news that the SCOTUS rules in favor of Trump’s travel ban just ruined my morning, equally I am quite sure as it made Mueller’s, Bannon’s, Pence’s and Sander’s. Fox news must be jumping up and down ‘celebrating’ this landmark decision, one swayed by the strongarm tactics of a completely corrupt and morally bankrupt administration. They don’t even hide it anymore, pandering to a racist base intent solely upon keeping their white entitlements intact. 

We should be afraid that they are so afraid. Because this is insane. Today we are no better than third world countries that rule by fear, violence and fascist ideologies. Fact is, because of the standards we have championed for over two hundred years, and that we know better, and have the gall to call ourselves Christians, this is, as we used to say in the contracting world, totally unsat. One hundred percent unsatisfactory. 

And it has to stop. It simply must end. SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. 

That somebody must be me and you. And the rest of us who see the potential, OUR RESPONSIBILITY, for global leadership, cooperation and the brokerage of peace. All of that begins here, at home, with each of us taking responsibility, moving ceaselessly towards the ideal that our founding fathers compiled into an incredibly succinct document known as the Constitution of the United States of America.

That document is currently under siege, held hostage by thieves, pirates and the greedy power lust of a handful of ghouls more interested in amassing money and power than protecting our guarantees to life, liberty and the pursuit. Their profit comes from our tiny middle class pockets and that power we give to them in the form of our collective voting process, aka democracy.

Cut to the chase. Hear, embrace and shout: NOVEMBER. Five months away. 

I pray that won’t be too late.