As Exhaustion Overcomes… The Slog Goes On

A Note To My Friends,

I really wanted to write a column about the President's blatant racism today. In his rants against the proposed expanded teachings in public schools about slavery, racial inequity and historic oppression, in his labeling of that overdue curricula as un-American and unpatriotic, Trump has once again dragged the office of the President into a lower gutter than we'd thought existed. In the shadows of his complicit AG's statements that protestors were treasonous, and subject to prosecution under the Sedition acts, any veneer of moderation or humanity is being systematically removed from the White House.

I really wanted to write about that, and more...

But the truth is this; I'm exhausted, and I can't get my fingers to type what's in my heart. This farce has gone on long enough to leave just one final act, and I feel that any energy not spent on getting myself and anyone that I can influence into a voting booth is wasted.

Everything else is over and done. Is there really anyone left in America who is on the fence, trying to determine what is best for America? If so, my feeble words won't matter.

Is there really any doubt about what's at stake in November? The President has systematically eliminated anyone from his administration with a spine or a shred of human decency, and entombed the White House with mumbling sycophants. He has installed unqualified and in one painful case, clearly mentally ill donors and apologists to replace career civil servants, and to twist the institutions into propaganda facilitators.

Today, Trump again blatantly lied about the pandemic and our failed and failing response, suggesting that masks were overrated and that his own scientists, constrained by the penalty of perjury and forced to publicly deny his lies, were themselves wrong. As a direct result, more American's will needlessly die, and the economy will continue to make giant sucking sounds as it slides into the muck of the pandemic.

There is nothing left to demonstrate, nothing left to prove. The President has wagered his ability to retain an office that he constantly degrades on a public appeal to the worst of our sensibilities, and to count on an uncritical and intentionally misled minority to carry the him to another term, and to accept his misstatements without challenge.

Here is what else we have today: the leaders of the CDC have stated under oath that the vaccine will not be readily available until next year. The companies making the drugs have publicly concurred. The people in charge of the drug tests have signed pledges not to rush the trials. The majority of Americans have stated that they will not take a vaccine that is rushed to market.

The President states categorically that the drugs will arrive by election day, and calls all of the other parties liars, hacks or, at best, confused.

I'm just about done with this all.

Let the foul deeds be done across America, in rabid attempts to deny the vote where they can. Apparently, nobody who supports Trump finds the effort to restrict voting a clue as to the desires of the electorate.

Let the foul words continue from the desperate clingers to their offices, unearned and incapable of rising to. Apparently, they understand what a fair and just world will do to them, and they are anxious to avoid that fate.

Let the day of decision arrive, and let me harbor the last vestige of trust and faith in justice, in fairness and in the American public.

Just let me stop ranting now, and until then... let me rest my heart, and sleep in faith. If Trump and Barr have stopped trying, then let me do the same.