What is happening to this country? What are we putting ourselves through? How little intelligence does it take to think that one can change the entirety of humanity to have them believe, think and do everything you want them to? To follow your biased and stilted perception of reality…? It’s insane to think you can wave your hands and say “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…” and have anyone respond to your will is ignorant, stupid and disrespectful of each other’s rights as a human being on this planet.

The Amerikan Nazi Party (or Trump Republicans) think that we – the civilized public – will blindly believe any load of drivel they spew out…

I can’t do this.

I can’t re-hash everything that our side says about theirs and vice versa. It does no good. Especially in this blog…that nobody reads.

What saps every last bit of energy from my body is listening to the constant screaming of the ignorant, uneducated masses, led by Fuhrer Trump and supported by the Republikans. Then we Democrats respond with humanity and respect (as we always do,) and point out our intelligent approach to prosperity and happiness that has proven time and again to actually work.

Then the finger-pointing escalates the rhetoric beyond any semblance of a productive conversation. It’s like listening to two whiny children, crying in their high chairs because the other has more ice cream than they do. And it continues to amp-up to the point where the exhausted parents take away the ice cream all together – leaving the sobbing brats with nothing.

Do you get what I’m alluding to here? What’s missing in this existential crisis?

Gratitude.

Empathy.

It has to exist on both sides of the table for our country to exist and grow. Tell me the last time you saw a real demonstration of gratitude for what this country did for them from anyone in the Republikan “Party”?

I have no energy to negotiate with a dead tree stump blocking my path. It’s usually in the best interest of the forest to let it rot away and feed the tiniest creatures that support the life that exists there. It is part of the process that has existed for much longer than we have.

But I fear (as many do) that our environment can’t wait for this “stump” to die off and rot away naturally. It brings more disease to the surrounding life that is killing everything – and will continue to kill without remorse. It takes more and more from the rest of us until we’re rotting away to support this dying “thing.” This makes one think that we may have to take measures to accelerate the process of helping this stump take it’s natural course…

The Republikans are a dying group. Infected by Trump/stump, they are losing what’s left of their standing in this country, and the global community at large. Nobody will ever again take anything they say seriously – especially me. Humanity always wins. Intellect always wins. Love always wins. We share the same land, the same air, the same water, the same environment – it is asinine to think that anyone has exclusive “rights” to any of it over another fellow citizen of this planet. Those that think so are woefully short of the intellect to lead anyone, let alone deal with their own life. Those that blow their own horn to say how great and smart they are always fall harder when their failures are exposed.

Dealing with the pandemic, dealing with the impact on the economy, dealing with racial issues, dealing with the political divisiveness, dealing with the lies…it wears on a person. It’s next to impossible to not have it draw your energy down, leaving you a shell of a soul.

Thanks to the Republikans, there are those of us who don’t see each other as fellow human beings any more. They blame everyone else for their lot in life, taking no responsibility for their actions. Personal accountability – otherwise referred to as integrity – has ceased to exist in Trump’s version of this story.

So, what do we do?

How do we end this nightmare?