In a time of trumult ... 20250, American democracy in retrogrind… a nation torsed, off course, under erratic, spurious, spasmodic misleadership … self~armoring, self~isolating, abandoning world diplomatic leadership, reverting to threat and militarized force in homeland and afar … under increasingly unitary executive branch squandering billions upon billions in overt warring, hegemony abroad, domestic culture cleaving, anxiety and insecurity surging, spiraling cost of living … Project 2025 omnidirectional attacks in defunding critical domestic social, human and enviro health program needs, shameless trampling of guardrail civil and official norms, brutish law enforcement unto ICE murders, targeted and mass deportations, detentions centers, reversals, rewrites and deliberate destruction of vital regulations, cynical~manipulative political seduction~conscription~hoodwinking of Christian faithful, abetting extreme Christian religious nationalism~white supremacy … race baiting, othering, immigrant bashing ( in the name of the Prince of Peace ), historical revisionism, attacks and deck~ stacks on our cultural institutions … gerrymandering, voter suppression ~ systems undermining, moral compass spinning, gaslighting, costly endless lawsuits suits, retributions, intimidations, squabbles, blocks, circumvents~endruns, ego trippin, outlandish partisan pardons, taxpayer flossing, executive branch industry coercion, corporate greed enabling, brazen self~dealing, brash~crass crypto pon$ie, bald faced presidential political office profiteering, crony pocket~ lining, immunity seeking, fiascos, entanglements, bamboozlings and imbroglios ..
Only he can f i x it ?! We’re witnessing and weathering a gilded ( have much gold leaf in your home ? ) star spangled unravel. A most toxic and raging di vi si dent. Glowering and belligerent maladmistration, actively opposing and stifling earned rights and values of its citizens, triumphal historical revisionism, disrespectful of the life, struggles and values of our Indigenous and Diverse Peoples, Lands and Waters.
U.S. Administration vs. Everything, Almost Everyone, Everywhere at Once? Hubris at every turn. Is this the grimace and pout~touted promise of Law and Order ? A government turning upon, criminalizing its own citizens and legal and pending immigrants ?! Reads daily and plays out more like 1984der.
Absence of Love, Kindness, Humility … any inclusive national vision … Alas.
This is not freedom ringing, more like the NYSE bell on Wall Street, a governing for and by a walled~in autocratic selected loyalist ideological~hammer mashup regime, to raid our commonwealth, treasury and tax revenue, assail our All Americans Spirit , more akin to a hostile cultish corporate takeover. Its the stuff of every warning in our founding and evolving national framework documents, And in scriptural references, if one sees clearly beyond the FOG~a. The voices of this administration have become Unkind, Shrill. Devolving.
Sprinklings of U.A.P. headline hype, push to amp testosterone levels, blowing up every point of potential distraction~contention along limbic ( partisanized hot buttons) lines, spiraling to a same drain, pipeline, life in an officially armed, abetted, dangerous, and legal~dodgy American fascist lane. Seemingly working for a beast with no nation, certainly NO LOVE love for peoples and lands, that which feeds we, except as a commodity, transactional. On the take, take, take. Dysamerica Inc.
I understand that the right wing might classify the above as flatly “commie” or extreme left lib. Which in lately admin nomenclature is newly defined as ” antifa”, or antifascist. Hmmm .. That phrase has apparently been officially turned on its head? Previously and recently the United States of America~ns were overwhelmingly anti~fascist ( fascist states characterized by extreme nationalism, cult of rough~tough personality, suppression of political opposition, often state~religious confluence, censorship, and strict state control broadly in culture, arts, media and private~public life) !?
Again, 1984der.
If we read about these compacted cumulative actions in another country, our own country’s Leadership and Citizens would be alarmed and loudly critical. These actions are blatantly UNmerica. Seems kinda medieval. Is Official lying and sidestepping a neo~normed tactic and performance? Is ( right ) wing extremism and Official belligerence / roughness / violence a neo~virtue?
This rogue runaway train is not heading to our ALL AMERICAN DREAMERS DESTINATION. This is not the basket many imagined, worked, fought and died for, an abundant cornucopia, not a basket woven to collect and embrace we, This Land is Our Land , rather, a White, blue, and Red Raging trap.
A truly integrated national Healing and course correction is going to require Work and Listening, among First Nations, immigrations, all generations, all earthnicities, All Our Relations Living LOVE among ALLAWE the Peeps !
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Emma Lazarus
November 2, 1883
Let’s all do what we each do in our tiny canoe ( and tall ship ) … to Learn, Listen, Speak, Act, and cutivate bright renewed era, rumors and conditions and abiding Peace and Brotherhood, PeopLovPeacecopowerUnity … we can all be great ( MLK Drum Major speech ) … right at our kitchen tables, in our backyards, workplaces, markets, and along our boulevards.. … ALL AMERICANS Get Together … DREAM OUT LOUD ! We Got to Love One Another Right Now …
( btw .. this blog is offered by a registered independent voter )
