Annual award shows are in full swing. Every other week or so another blockbuster TV show airs an awards soiree. So much excitement. And glitter. Smiles and posing. Unspoken wealth, too. The good life in full view.
The Super Bowl has been played. The penultimate game has been staged, presented, played. The glitter, the half-time show, the bared female bodies gyrating to mad music and rhythms only young souls appear to understand. The gawdy and the glorious. The celebration of athleticism and physical presence. It almost seems America is on parade.
But didn’t we just have New Year’s Day and its football bowl games, Rose Parade, Crystal Ball Drop ringing in the new year? Wasn’t that America on parade?
All this celebrating. Arts and athletics. Survival and calendar turnings.
All the while a stark reality stands boldly in our face: the US government leadership is broken, dishonest and untrustworthy.
The Congress has been broken for a long time. the Senate more recently broken. The White House obvious in its dysfunction and immorality. But the courts? The Supreme Court? The US Court of Appeals? The District Federal Courts? The states’ courts, too? Certainly many state legislatures are broken and dysfunctional. Illinois’ is on the mend, finally, but it has a long way to go. What is the condition of other states? I wouldn’t know; I live in Illinois.
Those we elect to represent us and lead our better spirits far into the future have let us down. It could only happen if we voters let it down beforehand. We should know who we vote for. We should know what these people stand for and whether they will represent our views, morals and ethics. By not knowing this, we have allowed scummy people to populate our government. It no longer does our business, it is busy doing its own business.
Self-serving greed for wealth and power. Sad. Disgusting. Apocryphal.
But now we know this is true. What do we do about it?
How do we regain control of our nation’s soul and humanity? Must we fight yet another revolution on our soil? Is this what all the work and loyalty has led to?
This week the US Senate will acquit the sitting president. Not on facts. Not on history. Not on substance. But on politics, greed and power. All in your name. And mine.
Nope! I’m not a part of this. Neither should any of us be counted as part of this.
That means only one thing.
Time for a change.
February 5, 2020
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