the wrong sort of fireworks...

i love 4th of july. you can read in my early blog a few years ago as to tell you part of why.


i love the fireworks most of all, traditionally speaking. but this year, i see them nearly every day flying from the white house, and they are of completely the wrong sort.


"independence day"...in our country, has been important to my family for all my life. all 4 of my grandparents came here to flee oppression and religious discrimination. every male in my family just short of this generation served in the armed services, and were proud and strong in it's mission. it was a time to enjoy the meaning of day, the festivities, and feel especially grateful to be an American. this year...it's incredibly bitter sweet. and this is my only political post of any sort until the holiday is past...but here it is....


it's impossible to enjoy all i ever have previously about this national holiday given the current "so called" "leadership" in our country. if no other abomination had been present, just the last few days of behavior from the white house, in all it's various forms via representatives, surrogates, and the inhabitant of the oval office himself, it would have been enough to grieve my heart.

not that in any way any of us should be surprised...given the gross demonstrations of his lack of good character, dignity, and discernment since the campaign began several years ago. and yet....we are. i think one of the most difficult experiences has been to see good and otherwise decent people, emerge as those who are either willing to remain silent about it, or secretly, and often not so secretly, actually endorse and support the vicious rhetoric and the shameless fascist propaganda that is promulgated on a nearly daily basis from this president and his surrogates. it is a peculiar and deeply disturbing phenomena to see it so embraced as "truth" by so many people i know and so many more i do not know. i truly never...thought i would see this ...here. ever.


i am somewhat encouraged that at least finally, members of the republican party are joining the outcry, and are speaking out to admonish the white house for the manner in which #45 is using the social media platform "twitter"....but it is too little too late to say the least!


until this last election, i was a republican since i was 18 years old, very involved in politics to a fairly high level on occasion, and a more or less conservative one at that. that said, in the last decade, my affiliation has waned. as i have emereged thru my life journey i have found incompatible phiolosphies. i have always supported feminist issues, although i am "right to life"....that value has always extended to the entire span of life, not just birth. i have compassion and feel a duty to serve and care for the "poor"....be it in economics, spirit, or any other way. i have a heart for refugees. i think black lives matter, and i am in favor of marriage equality. nonetheless, the republican party was my party of choice until their choices, specifically in this last election go round, become so abhorant, i could not longer support them at all.


so .....having said that, you can see why it saddens me to see and hear what they have become in the last two years. a party of the bully.....the sanctimonious self righteoussness, and compliant, by their overall silence , to the behavior and dictates of the current executive administaion of this county.


nothing....truly...nothing....will change for the better until the republican legislators currently serving, stand up strong and tall and united and say....they will NOT support any legislation important to this administration, including of the surreptitious agendas of some of the advisors, cabinet members etc, and republican party leadership states emphatically they will NOT allow their party to nominate this incumbent president for 2020 re-election, unless he ceases and desists immediately his deprecations and behaviors unacceptable to the office he holds.


the fact his supporters continue to support him...and even endorse his vitriol, has gotten to a point where i am so deeply grieved by their destructive and unilateral support of him, i cannot even maintain anything more than superficial friendships with anyone who condones this run amok and disgracefully behaving administration.


let #45 run apart from the republican party. let him form his own party. whatever. but for the sake of the mercy of heaven....please....do not allow this sort of conduct nor 45 personally, to become any more normalized in our country than he already is. it is time to stand strong republicans!!!! you are not accomplishing anything worthwhile legislatively, no matter!


the anathema of this presidency thus far, to all who have any shred of decency and dignity....must be proclaimed, and it must be rejected and summarily shunned because soon...we will all be lost to the destruction of our beloved country and our mission in the world....and it will be far, far.... too late for the redemption of all that we have ever been that is good and decent as a country. we need to reclaim to shine for each of our citizens...and also be a country  who shines in the world. although we utilized them specifically on the 4th of july, as spoken of in our national anthem, as symbols of the fight that ensued to be free.....in our world today,  "fireworks"  on our shores, should shed only light....not destruction.