The Cavalry's Not Coming
We are the change we seek.
My junk mail is filled with requests for donations. Most of them from the man who lost the election and who is being reminded daily by the losses in courtrooms around the country. The last I saw it was one win and twenty-five losses, and one of the those twenty-five wins negated the lone win.
I wrote before that I believe the unconscionable heel-dragging that will do further damage to trust in government, the courts, democracy, politics is merely a not-so-thinly-veiled effort to steal more money on his way out the door. From his vapid followers and from the American taxpayers in general.
He is putting us through this excruciating charade to feather his nest while guaranteeing no one will have the chutzpah to throw the champion of millions of deluded Americans into a federal or state penitentiary when the time comes. He continues to be a dangerously shrewd idiot backed by lawyers, guns and - someone’s - money.
I’ve never been interested in playing nice, and I am not interested now.
The Democratic leadership is making noises as if they are going to capitulate because they don’t want to take the heat from those - predominantly - angry, white voters and citizens. In my view, the problem lies in that they are not concerned about the heat those of us who supported them may give them if they do not aggressively pursue every avenue of legal action against alleged misdeeds by the former administration. (See? “Alleged”. I’m willing to abide by the innocent until proven guilty code of conduct.)
The party of this disgraced sad sack of a human being prosecuted Hillary Clinton over her role in the Benghazi incident for years in the court of public opinion and otherwise. Benghazi was peanuts compared to just about any scandal of the past four years. Benghazi was the baseball league below the minor league of baseball leagues.
I am not hopeful that my desire to see justice will be sated.
Those who walk the halls of power are not going to willingly prosecute one of their own. Or very many of their own. They’ll cherry pick some fall guy or gal out of this administration and put them on trial as a public display of what might happen if you fly too close to the sun with mobsters. They will expect the masses to be appeased. . . enough.
It will be terribly ungratifying.
It will also be yet another terrible blow to a democracy holding on by a strand.
Once again, this is where we have to be better citizens. We have to remain engaged in politics and push the ball down the field on multiple fronts. We cannot allow the pundits to tell us, or our governments officials to tell us, or journalists too cozy with the moneyed elite to tell us that we can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. The House of Representatives proved over the past few years it was possible to do the people’s business AND prosecute wrong-doing.
It was American citizens who were engaged in the process who pushed them into action.
It will be a Sisyphean task regardless of what happens with the Georgia Senate runoff. Though winning those two seats would be a nice cherry on top of the 2020 election cycle for those of us pining for a return to something vaguely resembling normalcy. Or vaguely resembling a functioning government.
And meting out justice for past wrong-doings will not be enough. We need to demand a reconsideration of our flawed ‘checks and balances’. The warning light has been on for quite some time when it comes to executive privilege. The current occupant of the White House abused it every chance he got. The vehicle still operates but that warning light needs addressing because something’s amiss.
It could be the timing chain. It could just be the dash light’s malfunctioning. But, in either case, something’s broken.
And my reminder and my remedy are the same as they ever were:
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek. Si se puede.
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This is an oldie but goodie. I was reminded of it when someone posted a cellist in a forest surrounded by a youth orchestra and the cellist looked familiar. Sure enough it was the Croatian sensational cellist, Stepjan Hauser, who I first saw in this video, Thunderstruck. Enjoy!
And I don’t know if Linda Hedlund is an AAR but I saw this post from her this morning and I thought it paired well with the Thunderstruck video. Eric Clapton teams up with Luciano Pavarotti for a rendition of Holy Mother. Thanks, Linda!
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