Failing in America

 With all the talk about assassination attempts, I remain drawn to a different reality—Trump’s seeming passion for failure. I am thinking of his six bankruptcies.  And how, as I watch him and, more importantly, watch his supporters spewing Hate at all things Democratic, I now find myself imagining Trump actually killing America. How could he do that? Well, my memory goes back to those days of FDR, and WW II, when Americans were drawn together in the battles against Germany and Japan. Then the picture shifts as those wars end and we move into our standoff with Russia.  Yes, we had other wars, Korea, Vietnam, Middle East, and yes there were conflicting views among Americans about all those conflicts. But, in the final analysis, we just disagreed. We did not HATE one another or wish to kill one another.

Enter Donald Trump. Perhaps his main thought train is HATE towards anyone who disagrees with him. And as those disagreements grow in number and ferocity, his hatred grows, and that hatred spreads to his supporters. MAGA is not merely a political movement. It is the beginning of an army of hate-filled, heavily armed supporters. The folks who voted for him and now support him seem oblivious to his faults, many though they are. The fact of an illegal WAR, Iran, and even Venezuela, seems not to matter. It seems no longer possible to hold civil conversations with MAGA.

Having lived through many presidents and even working for two – Carter and Reagan—Trump seems anomalous.  I now would place him at the very bottom of our list of Presidents, with no one else even being close.   He would even, in my opinion, be near the bottom of any list of foreign leaders. Now does he equate with Hitler? Well, no, not yet. He has a ways to go on that killing of Americans thing.  But he seems moving in that direction.

AND, one of the forces pushing him in that direction is his MAGA supporters. They seem to be growing more hate-filled by the day. AND, they now seem to hate other Americans –Democrats, and really anyone not supporting Trump.

Now, are we headed to a new Civil War? Maybe, although I am not sure what that would look like. There are MAGA strongholds, to be sure, but there do not seem clean lines of division. A war of MAGA-Hatred would be a messy war indeed.  And its resolution seems uncertain, although, to be fair, I see our Military largely on the side of reason, not supporting Trump. Still, great risks remain with Trump in charge, and MAGA running free. I find myself hoping for some medical miracle—a fatal heart attack maybe.  See, Trump has moved my head into uncharted waters. Never before, even under some of our less wonderful presidents, has my brain gone to such a spot.

But it is important to note that I am now profoundly depressed about my/our America, and I have lived through presidents from FDR on. As I approach my own ending – I am, after all, 91 and counting—I am daily saddened by how Americans seem to grow in their hatred to one another.  That truly is sad.  Remember folks, there likely is NO HEAVEN and NO HELL. This is it. When you die, you simply cease to exist. Now think on that, hard. Whatever happens here is all there is. So, try to make what happens here as pleasant as possible, not merely for you, but for everyone. It’s all there is, folks.

Trump Ends

 We keep half joking About how Trump has embarked on a campaign that will lead eventually to the total destruction of America.  And then I keep reading FB postings about how one or another of our Congresspeople think maybe we should invoke that 25^th Amendment thingie so we can transfer Trump to some deserted island with his family and his cabinet.  And they can then rule over a handful of birds or fishies.

I have yet to read about we are going to try, convict and then punish Trump and his gang for war crimes—the kind of thing we accused the Nazi’s of in past decades.  To be fair, Trump has not yet killed millions, but he keeps trying.

It isn’t that Trump’s war crimes have gone unnoticed. Everyone paying even remote attention knows that is what he is doing, and knows equally that he needs to be in prison at least. And yet we do nothing. By now, all of our NATO allies have been completely disconnected as friends and allies. Think of that. All of our NATO allies now are no longer friends. Now they are not yet at the “enemy” stage, but Trump keeps moving us in that direction.

And now he has decided on some sort of peace deal with Iran. What/how is currently unknown, but it is a good thing. We did not need this war. It was completely unnecessary, and illegal. Maybe if the dumbass/evil Arabs would stop killing Israeli Jews, Bibi would not have emerged as a Nazi over there, and we might have avoided this illegal war.  But they do seem to love killing Jews, and, as long as they continue, Bibi will continue in his Nazi way to retaliate.

And I keep wondering about what if anything Congress is going to do, to pull Trump out of power. There really seems no power grid active to accomplish that.  And until that happens, Trump will remain an eminent threat to America and the world. Now, maybe he will continue his descent into the Netherland of Dementia.  Maybe if he awakens some morning and really does not know who he is, someone will get the message – Hey Gang, maybe it’s time we moved on without him. Of course, then we get Vance and the gang of idiot-malenfants he appointed.  Not sure if that solves the problem.

Ah well America, you lived a good long life. Maybe it’s time Canada annexed us.