The next time you are two-deep in a grocery store line and perusing the bins of entertainingly wild headlines equate that with how the United States must look to the rest of the world. You know the magazines I mean—the big book style colorful weeklies with blaring headlines like, ELVIS IS ALIVE AND WORKING FOR TUPAC ON A REMOTE ISLAND! For years, America was in front of the line using coupons of reason and leadership, now we are patting our feet hoping the customers with full baskets of thought will hurriedly cashout. The people of the United States are feeding off empty carbs of gobbledygook, sugar-laden promises of a false future, and processed packages of lies.
Meanwhile, the world is reading the headlines from the WH Enquirer and is laughing at us…
U.S. PRESIDENT PAID PORNSTAR FOR SEX:
FORMER HEAD OF KGB HELPS TO INSTALL AMERICAN PRESIDENT:
PRESIDENT AND LAWYER SET UP SECRET PAY WINDOW FOR PARAMOUR:
The only thing missing from my small sample of the world’s presidential headlines is, Trump hires Hawaiian detectives to search for moon landing soundstage. Behind the smiles and the giggles is the serious problem of the world having to be in a constant mode of doubt about America’s credibility. Conservatives have thrown Ronald Reagan’s ‘trust but verify’ quote at the world like breadcrumbs to follow for years, now the world cannot trust America without verification. The bigger problem is where does that verification come from? The conservative contingent of the check and balances of our glorious republic has decided that Americanism is less valuable that egoism. Winning has become the rights’ new religion and if America has to be crucified then they are willing to provide the nails.
Throughout the Obama years, Republicans railed in opposition against the so-called “apology tour” and accused the former President of weakness. Their answer was to make the United States a joke and send its’ citizenry on an apology tour for our stupidity, growing irrelevance, and incompetence for an unspecified number of decades. Even if a predicted change happens in the midterms, accompanied by a possible course correction in 2020, the damage has been done. America, once again, has been exposed as a greedy, xenophobic, race driven society that will stoop to kidnapping children to get its’ way; how do we bury our past sins if we only dig the hole, and increase the depth of the pit hollowed out by years of shameful genocide, slavery and internment?
Time to turn the page…
Everything I have written up to this point may sound like a bleak prediction for the future but to the contrary, I see the current state of America as a pathway to success. We have to stop fooling ourselves into accepting mediocrity as the best we can be. It is not enough to just get along, because we can be better. The first step is to stop indulging a man we know is not worthy of America. Sure, we have had presidents who were philanderers, racist, isolationist, misogynist and driven by greed; maybe through some awful joke of evolutionary politics, we have finally cracked the Jurassic code and completed the DNA strand of malevolence, avarice, and disrespect into one life form, Donald John Trump. The only permanent thing in life is change.
Vote in ’18 for Change.