Time to Perform

I talked to my Aunt Glenda today, the good witch of Shelby, NC, and she told me the whole world was falling apart.  No one wants to work, and they are getting everything from the government.  Businesses are closing and inflation is at a record high, although I remember the days of Ronald Reagan.  Inflation was a problem then too.  Crap was expensive.  Four dollars for a dozen eggs?  Four dollars for a loaf of bread.  This is fallout from two years of Covid lock down.  Those who perpetrated this crime got it right.  They hammered a severe blow to American democracy and civilization as we once knew it.  "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" in the immortal music and words of Mercer Ellington and Ted Persons.  I wanted to begin my blog entry by having read, "Trumps tax returns now will be available to Congress."  It is a broken record.  How many times all ready have we, the American people, heard this nonsense?  Every month the headline reads, "Past president Donald  Trump must make his tax returns public," as most sitting presidents do.  (unless they have something to hide)  It has been six long years since this man connived his way to the American Presidency by bribing specifically targeted state legislators whose states don't require them to take the popular vote.  If they dissent for some reason, they can opt to discard the popular vote and send their own nominee.  How else could he have won?  We are in purgatory, and we can't get on with  American life until he gets his due.  Only six years ago before Donald Trump became president seemingly defeating Hillary Clinton (who had two million more votes) life in America was calm.  It was normal.  There was no Radical Right.  There was not so much racial violence, although police shootings of black men always have been problematic in America.  Jim Crow is responsible for this.  Six years later, even after democrat Joe Biden has won the presidency, all hell is breaking loose.  Imagine four covert years in the American presidency appointing judges, dismantling regulatory legislation and their accompanying agencies, and setting the stage for a violent overthrow of Congress at the Capital in Washington.  The damage this man did to America is far reaching and substantial.  It is he, Donald Trump, who is responsible for our pain.  Flip on the G5 network, and now there is a shooting every day, not just every week.  It is not a coincidence.  Start a Space Force.  Did anyone stop to ask what this is?  It was a sanction for Elon Musk to build Dr. No's evil network of low orbiting surveillance satellites.  Was it another James Bond villain?  That is the scope of this crisis.   "Anything Goes" in the immortal words and music of Cole Porter.  America's leadership has failed.  Any nation knowingly that allows children to drive while holding a smart phone is negligent and responsible for their deaths.  Children cannot discipline themselves.  They need structure, guidance, and mentoring.  If we said, "No driving with a smartphone," then they wouldn't do it.  Yet we allow them to do it recklessly, and for what reason?  We are inhibiting their personal freedom?  A nation cannot be a nation unless there is a main street.  Bill Clinton used to speak about Main Street, meaning the common ground among most Americans.  No longer do we have this.  We have been splintered, diverted, assaulted, and disrespected like no other American generation.  We are expected to disregard gender and allow humanity to devolve into single celled organisms incapable of understanding the beautiful difference between the sexes.  I don't want to marry myself.  Why would I?  An ugly mob of haters, inciters, and posers has descended from space and inhabited our bodies.  Sound familiar?  (The Walking Dead)  It is real.  We are being programmed to accept the zombies, but I am on to them.  You're going to have to do more than pose.  You're going to have to do something.