I'm tired, boss

 

The line from the film "the Green Mile" was in my head this morning.

I should be writing, I tell myself every morning, but when I sit down and put my fingers on the keyboard I just can't.

I'm tired.  More than tired, I am bone weary.

The news these days sucks the life out of me.  It's harder and harder to read or watch it without feeling ill.

There has always been a schism between the political parties, but WHEN did it get like this?   ANYTHING the Democrats want is evil and we are on the rocky road to "Gasp"  Socialism!  News flash, a lot of the programs out there ARE socialism. but the seem to work. 

If Joe Biden said we all need to breathe at the proper intervals to sustain life ( as my Coach used to say)  then Mitch McConnell would DEMAND that all GOOD Republicans hold their breath.  When did the Republican Party start being a cult?  During the Reagan Era, I suppose but it got worse when the mass of them were conned by the professional Con man they put in the White House.  Follow the money.  Who got richer?  

What is up with the debt ceiling?  Not doing to pass it, close down the Government?  I think the Republican Party wants to privatize it and put money in certain pockets when they do.  They are so far from Lincoln's Government  "of the people, by the people, for the people"  it's not even a good meme.

When did the welfare of the average American become currency?   Why is it so hard to pass an infrastructure bill that will help all of us.  Passing the Trump tax cut was easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy for them but this is.. WAR.

Don't get me started on how they have convinced their followers- WITHOUT A SHRED OF EVIDENCE that there is MASSIVE voter fraud and we need to have a whole bunch of new laws to prevent what never happened from happening again.  No proof, but a whole bunch of people believe it.  It proves that Joseph Goebbels was right, if you repeat a lie often enough , it becomes the "truth".

Still we hold on and fight on, for voters rights for women's reproductive rights, to keep a small minority who cite religion as the reason for law ( RELIGION my Aunt Fanny, their only god is MONEY!)Most of these laws are written to keep them in power over women and people of color.  They are, I think, in for a rude awakening.