Winning and Losing

We are losing. Each of us. All of us. The nation. The world community. NATO, common defenses everywhere. The United Nations.

The defeat is complete. When people cannot meet, greet and agree, then they are powerless.

When people meet, discuss and compromise, they have power; they share the power. They each get something they need, and maybe want. But something positive has occurred.

The absence of agreement is loss of power.

That’s what we have been building toward in the US Congress for some decades now. And in the White House, too. Occupants in seats of authority (not power if unused!) who refuse to agree on much of anything. whether conservative or liberal, democrat or republican, lack of agreement means nothing gets done.

There are those in each of the camps who are glowing with pride on what they have done; which is actually nothing. Nothing done. And they are proud. I say, proud of what? So they didn’t have to live with agreeing to something they dislike? The price of that is that nothing got done and they are in the same powerless position as they had before.

Someone has to move. It does not matter who. Or what. Just something. Some movement so ideas can be exchanged, softened, tweaked, and agreement established. Movement. Forward. A means to govern.

What we have now is an unwillingness for people of authority to achieve anything.

The government shutdown is a sham. It is meaningless. Except: it exposes naked people with empty brains and useless being.

Embarrassing. To me. To you. To all of us. That we have come this far in human history and accomplished so little of anything. just standoff.

Much is needed doing. Governing is continuous. Its need never ends. And support of human activity and purpose continues on and on until the end of time.

The end of time has not yet occurred. So why are intelligent, wealthy people of authority and ego not getting anything done? Because they cannot deal with humility.

The same occurs in international affairs. It is occurring there. It has occurred there. The United Nations gets little done. NATO gets little done. The USA gets little done.

And the whole world watches this calamity unfold. Strutting peacocks on a world stage showing off their lack of beauty, smarts and purposelessness.

Sad. The only thing sadder is the occupant of the White House who is the pole dancer of nothingness.

I don’t hate trump. I see right through him. And Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, too. They do nothing. Accomplish nothing. Mean nothing.

Such a horrid waste of potential.

December 24, 2018