Hidden Figures
Devils Tap Dance in Notre Dame Fire as Earth Burns – Tremr Staff Pick & OpEdNews.com Headline
America doesn’t get the leaders it deserves – only the ones we elect.
Where honor already exists, tragedy ultimately reveals humanity’s heroic character, but just as the Devil jovially tap danced prematurely around the flames of an iconic thorn in his side, so too, do the devils among us revive the spirit of the debunked jig by an earlier narcissistic Führer.
Those ill-prepared for the truth of human decency remain deluded by the scent of a mesmerizing foxtrot refrain, denying history, science and children. Those hypnotized by Putin possessed pied piper, risk losing children to the flames of a world changing environment. Swooning, they tango with anti-Americanism, chanting: completely exonerated, no collusion, no obstruction.
Nonetheless, whether a long walk home across Manhattan’s bridges, a North Korean fleeing to freedom with five bullets in him or thousands praying along the River Seine and the Pont des Arts – faith, hope and love are life’s resilience, in true national emergencies.
Like many Americans, as I watched Notre Dame in flames, memories of 9/11 first responders – including Coast Guard led volunteer civilian boaters – rushing toward disaster to save who and what they could, matched the flow of my tears.
Watching the 850-year-old life of Notre Dame hang in the balance, like crane held statues being removed to save life surrounding the majestic cathedral, flashes of an America simmering in a pot of denial coming to a Climate Change boil too late to save our children, sparked an after-burn from my youth, for burning history and I have met before.
I was one of the students who defied firefighter admonitions and ran into a burning Peabody Conservatory of Music – saving treasured art, history, sheet music and what furniture we could carry.
Now, having witnessed many of life’s tragic and comedic creations, I welcome the impatience of youth, for it is their job to be so, lest the rest of us fail to be better than our 115th Congress.
While the inexperienced can learn from maturity the difference between digital connectivity and communication that nurtures communion, intelligence is not the sole property of university degrees or moneyed family position – and the young teach us, wisdom does not emit from gray-haired white men nor, Made in America, alone.
Throughout American history, American history has been made by both young and old, rich and poor and men and women, so why don’t we know about the young, or the names of the poor? Why is the possibility of a gay president still so shocking, or the election of a thirty-seven-year-old Muslim Congresswoman who dares to think, and incites all to do the same?
If Trump can inspire a weaponized male supporter to shoot up a pizza parlor looking for child trafficking, why can’t reasonable people elect a twenty-nine-year-old former Bronx bartender capable of reaching deep into America’s FDR soul to save our planet A?
Young women like twenty-nine-year-old Katie Bouman attacked for proving Einstein’s theory of General Relativity and forty-six-year-old Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures have always existed – like Sybil Ludington who rode twice as far as Paul Revere to warn the colonists at Danbury, Connecticut, the British are Coming – but men of all colors chose to prequel Chuck Grassley.
Clearly, America burns with national emergencies in road rage, neglected infrastructure, overpriced health insurance – and the Trump Family’s trading American sovereignty for a second Gilded Age. Time we douse this incendiary regime whose first priority, is burning bridges to affordable health-care, safe environment, national security and children.
When some convince vengeful leaders who incite violence they are above the law, the fire in our belly needs to rekindle our burning desire for open-minds regarding America’s 2016 Russian infected elections, Alexa’s in-home spy system, Candance Owens’ robust Southern Strategy deceit – not to mention, Globalization that has existed since wealthy Republican household names manipulated the 1948 Marshall Plan for their bottom line.
If our personal data must be a bargain chip for Facebook, let’s at least put Zuckerberg on notice that we know his heart is in trading us for profit, like other Internet duplicity threatening children with measles, ICE and the trumped.
America’s fear, bigotry, hate, racism, sexism and immigrant banning devils are as devastating to our humanity as the loss of Notre Dame would have been to our souls. Can we not now admit, to be what we claim, we need to refuse to allow William Barr to torch our Constitution before his serial arrogance reduces America to ashes.
If we desire a nation that tweets venom, then America is already suffocating in the smoke and mirrors of a con-artist-in-Chief reflecting only a third of us.
Retrieving our values from Republican embers, let’s resurrect America as Point Zero for an all-inclusive world!
Indictments Of, By and For Hope — Featured on PoliticusUSA.com
Papadopoulos Guilty, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates indicted and still Huckabee-Sanders claims from podium that, nothing has anything to 
do with you, her Bully Pulpit boss.
Swaggering past tossed Russian flags, you, like Martin Shkreli, assume Master Race membership, but hope overcomes the treachery that reduces our youth to an Opioid bottom line byproduct of pharmaceutical and congressional collusion.
Thinking yourself the, boss of bosses, you’ve cheated government funding, pocketing taxpayer money, like papa Fred pick-pocketed Eisenhower, but we indict hope to shine the light of truth through the fog of Twitter storms.
Shadowing Roy Cohn’s ghosts of darkness, you strut daddy’s, you are killers, you are kings, in your personal rut of emptiness, devoid of empathy. While we honor recapturing our American Dream – you dishonor the loss of Gold Star families – and expose your Massive Intelligence Failure.
Our hope remains securely invested in the American ideal of freedom, embracing the liberty to marry whomever we choose, an independent judicial branch and a laser beam focus on the locations you consider while personally interviewing potential U. S. Attorneys.
Imposing a gold-plated Betsy DeVos for maximum stress on students and teachers, can’t bait-and-switch our national hope for public education into the glitter of your fool’s gold.
Using our Federal Communications Commission, as a propaganda tool for self-righteous Baltimore brothers, will fail to sway our hope, toward deniers of Jefferson’s separation of church and state.
You can encourage Ryan Zinke to wipe his dirty feet on our environment, but we rise above arrogance, real and fabricated terrorism and seize the day.
You may have heralded in further restrictions on our civil liberties, with HHS zealot, Scott Lloyd, denying a seventeen-year-old her right to a legal abortion — an act of injustice, for which Attorney General Jeff Sessions reserves his right to remain silent – but, through federal laws upheld by our Supreme Court, we find hope in social services that assist in both pregnancy prevention and pre-natal care.
Following the crumbs left behind by Nixon, you can build a wall between Justice for All, and We the People, but hope keeps our hearts, minds and focus clear, even in the fog of phony recusal.
You can try to erase Eric Holder’s DOJ, but Elyse Goldweber, Sally Yates and all united with #MeToo women against men like you, are the wind of hope beneath our wings. Remembering your refusal to rent to people of color, America turns blue, resisting white supremacists in league with you.
You, whose trust is in Bannon’s Alt-Right Tiki torch Nazis, are no match for our Gettysburg Address ensconced hope in The Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, and judiciary giants: Derrick Watson, Theodore Chuang, James Robart, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
Repeatedly professing provocative prevarications, trusting, A Lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes, will never defeat an all-inclusive patriotism that increasingly strengthens the tie that binds America’s greatest hope: Civil discourse, mutual respect and propelling forward together.
Your impulsive and aggressive top-down extremist Messianic intimidation can only isolate some Americans from United We Stand, some of the time.
You can expect Americans to respond to you like your employees, obligated to perform duties, unquestioningly, sexually or otherwise, and you can agree, no degree from the College of the Ozarks without passing a mandatory class in their Patriotic POV. However, our national consciousness is measured not only by Free Will, but our Bill of Rights, Freedom of Choice and the freedom to, just say no to any negative manipulation in the equality of our three branches of government, by the dictates of morally bankrupt, economic elites.
Thanks to you, boss-man, most Americans are now rising above short-term memory and limited vision, and assuring our neighbors feeling forgotten, that our spirit of hope welcomes all POVs — for hope keeps our promise to the world, and to immigrants like Frederick and Melania Trump.
America is perfect imperfection, but most of the time, most of us recognize character – as we continue to try living, and passing along, the lessons of Lincoln, FDR, JFK, King, Bobby, Maya, Margot Lee Shetterly and Obama.
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