”Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
I feel obligated to say something today. I’d rather not but my conscience won’t allow me to stay silent today.
I don’t know that I can even begin to comment on the despicable and demented recent statements from Trump after the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife by their son without it becoming a profanity filled rant. From his words and actions over the past decade it was already obvious to many folks, but the world is now witnessing the actions of a madman on full display.
From his orders to criminally murder fishermen off the Venezuelan coast and the masked ICE troops assaulting and brutalizing US citizens here to his betrayal of our historic allies to ordering the prosecutions of his political foes, every day reveals more and more of his descent into madness. And I am only scratching the surface here with this list.
And yet there are still those who accept each new depth of depravity as being the new normal.
It begs the question: Who is more insane, the madman or those who refuse to see it?
History will not be kind to this era and the mass hysteria that enabled a horrid, soulless creature such as this to assume such great power.
It has to stop. Now. There is no time to wait and see. That’s like watching a guy in camo carrying an assault rifle enter an elementary school and saying, “Hold on. Let’s wait and see what happens.”
We’ve already said that too many times and now he’s in the school. Now we must stop him before he finishes the job.
That is our obligation and responsibility in this moment.
I apologize for writing this. I try to make this a place to get away from such things. But it cannot be avoided by any one of us any longer, try as we may.
It is never going to get any better than it is at this moment. It will continue to get worse unless we bring it to an end. Now.
Redtree Times 