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The More Our Russian Asset Talks the Better No Malarkey Sounds – OpEdNews.com Headline & Best of TREMR
The most insulting thing about someone repeatedly lying to us is, our repeatedly believing the lies, makes us their tools.
The worst thing about embracing alternative facts is, they don’t compartmentalize easily. They seep into and dilute our choices, dividing families, twisting life and death decisions into ill-conceived short-term livelihood v. lives self-centered group think. Some see Satan-worshipers adding toppings of conspiratorial additives wetting insatiable appetites for the world’s greatest deceptions, while missing the cataclysmic waves of addiction that is our own devices.
But national and individual healing does not come by the slice. We need our entire pie. Begin by recognizing and admitting Russian assets Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani and their domestic terrorists allies are merely the surface proof of America’s divisive chasm. What lies beneath is our choices reparation or dissolution.
We need to ask any civilian or military uniformed person we know, to what are they loyal, America’s Constitution and the freedoms it promises to all, regardless of color, race, religion, sexual preference or political persuasion, or to the purveyors and recipients of supreme dirty money, because when Donald Trump says we’ve got to open schools, he’s known how life-threatening COVID-19 is, long before 220,000 American deaths, and his maskless Rose Garden super spreader of this pandemic, to betray RBG.
Like Big Tobacco roles, Exxon shows, Deepwater Horizon Haliburton beaus, Red Ash Coal & Flint Water souls, just as Opioid hoes with marketing polls have profited off family woes, leaving us disposed to QAnon/Trump duos aligned with American democracy foes – Trump knew, and knows.
Financiers self-absorbed by systemic superiority insulate Trump enablers, like Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows and Sen. David Perdue, allowing power-hungry Conservatives like Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell and Bill Barr to presume both sides of our national penny are tarnished green.
Assuming we are as cavalierly dismissive of American brown and black diversity as the thirteen trumped disciples now incarcerated for plotting to kidnap with intent to harm, two American Governors, they think us accessories.
They just can’t believe our courageously standing for hours, despite a pandemic, to express our Exceptionalism: voting.
America has always had to struggle with those who believe oppressing brown, black and gay people is their legal inheritance. Loathing others, while in hiding until a leader of infamy capable of conning a majority, increases one’s inability to distinguish between polished brass and the dawn’s early light.
Steeped in fantasies of superiority over others distorts one’s constitution, making the narrowminded prime prey for entering where life demands the price for patriotic hypocrisy: discovering we hate our neighbors as we hate ourselves.
The wise, however, are humbled by this revelation: Climate Change, Covid-19 and Donald Trump have accelerated our maturing as individuals, people and nation. We are no longer invading European adventurers, but a diverse nation seeking truth, balance and love for all, increasingly rejecting foreign hackers and domestic terrorists from backtracking our evolutionary progression.
Only fifty-five years after the defeat of our self-severed southern segment, did the resurrection of its true cause celeb begin anew to white out, this land is your land, this land is my land, with monumental Roaring Twenties reconstruction tributes to defeated generals, slave owners and at least one brief, but former Dixie president, allowed to escape by an assassinated Yankee one.
Yet, before Armistice Day could become Veterans Day, united we stood with white men amended by whites only female voters, to defeat allies of Red White and Blue Republicans Charles Lindbergh, Allen and John Foster Dulles, Ford, GM and Dupont – still believing no matter whose bed we shared, we were ultimately entitled. After all, hadn’t we, alone, made the world safe for democracy – everywhere but here at home?
While clearly Trump remains his own worst enemy, he is America’s as well. An enemy I have feared, if defeated, would escape to Russia on one last free Air Force One ride. This week our rogue president dropped the hint: “could you imagine if I lose?” “I’m not going to feel so good. Maybe I’ll have to leave the country, I don’t know.”
After 1,383 days of Trump’s charades dishonoring America, Americans and our presidential institution, why have Democrats who march and stand united in sincere support of, Gender Equality, Black Lives Matter, Me Too and Never Again failed to win the trust of 18% of young Black men and Latinos for Trump?
Why have we lost them to a Robert Philip Hanssen hyperlink; a president who knowingly accepted Russian disinformation, then, publicly, with malice aforethought, presented it as fact?
We need this conversation, not just for 2020, but to reconcile: we aren’t united, free, or whole, until we recapture our American Dream, Rainbow and Dreamers, and together share justice and equality for all.
Imminent Threat to America: Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump and Climate Change Deniers
We remain a nation dedicated to following old angry men into fighting the last war with the next generation, instead of filling Congress, Judgeships and State and Federal Executive positions with them. We are a people still defending freedom by oppressing those less fortunate, and citizens still confusing patriotic civic duty with, that’s not my problem.
Iranians, holding accountable their leaders, who, like Trump/McConnell think themselves above the law, reversing their approval of a, proportional response, to the precision outcome of a flippant presidential golf course order to takeout a celebrated murderer, that spared American lives, but killed 82 of their own – Trump impeachment headlines slide to third place, life-threatening Australian fires left to pleas from Golden Globe winners and Puerto Rican earthquake barely receiving an honorable mention.
The imminent threat to America is Americans transforming ourselves into separated solos, behind firewalls blinding us to the dangers of remote revenge transposing the ensemble of life on earth into collateral for Trumpism.
Yes potentially, we are better than the hypocrisy of Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell and Trump/Pence, yet we still allow their direction for America to determine our character.
Those over fifty may claim some degree of ignorance, as historically, government practiced, citizens should be seen but not heard, until stunned when sixties’ assassinations, the Vietnam War and Nixon’s exposed criminality not only woke the unknowing masses but jolted their mass appeal for, all we like sheep.
It’s not too late to save ourselves from the dragons of Corporatism who have always known the deadly dangers of their adroitly aimed addictions: cigarettes, Opioids and fossil fuels – convincing millions, we couldn’t do without them, until we couldn’t – if seniors and Millennials unite.
Unlike the German originals and their American Neos, we cannot claim, we didn’t know concentration of love of money trading lives for lies and, being mesmerized by narrowing views, lured into tangling webs we ourselves weave with divisive chants of misinformation.
For better or worse, American births confirm, to whom much is given, from him much is expected, and everyday bears witness to how much more we’ve been given than others, despite allowing bankers, oil men & women and their political, and media, puppets to magnify economic gain as an escape clause.
In 1929 American industry, corporations and government knew, what a margarine commercial would imply fifty years later, it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature, and did nothing to warn us; no industry adjustments, no Wall Street public service announcements, no government offer of freedom of choice. Honestly, loving ever increasing convenience as we do, what would we have stopped, changed, or even slowed?
Would we have returned Mr. Olds’ Oldsmobile for a wagon train; recanted desertion of Mall Stores for Amazon packages stolen from our front porch? Will we give up our Netflix streaming recliner when movie theaters get what Blockbuster didn’t, and lower movie ticket prices?
Blessings and Miracles, like Royal Marriages and foreign Markets, are a flawed evolutionary chain of events – and America’s tragedies and comedies, a mystery whose beauty resides in the eyes of the electorate – just as the chain of evidence links our dictatorial, practicing demagoguery imperialistic and impeached president to Iran’s conservative religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
America isn’t immune to Newton’s third law. The chain of revenge has come full circle from General Solemani, through Trump’s irrational hitjob to Iranian missiles snatching life from 176 souls – and with them, too perilously and unforgivingly close to stealing the last shreds of proof of America’s human decency.
We’re not separate and apart from the government we elect. Yet we are better than Trump/Pence and deserve better than Mitch McConnell and his GOP corroding America – but we’ll never achieve it if our thoughts, focus and energy stop at such villains, instead of embracing a collective and individual pursuit of a life of loving excellence.
Truth that sets us free: we can never return to what we thought normal before Trump, because that normalcy, trusting gender inequity and believing Facebook, elected him.
Truth is, the earth will live longer than all life upon it today, especially if we allow a Trump infested unencumbered conservative GOP to have its way: ignoring the Constitution, raping our environment and degrading the presidency.
We can, nonetheless, be a 2020 Revelation: more new beginning than assumption that, on Mars we’ll be able to eat money.
What does it matter if…
- people who see the world like Chuck Todd can’t fathom why Speaker Pelosi delayed Trump Senate trial headlines
- Wall Street moguls lose sleep over Andrew Yang’s pragmatism
- Mitch McConnell believes he can fool all of the people all of the time
When we see kindred souls in each other and seize this truth: we’re not done.
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