After watching today's compilation of bad and sad news: the
encroaching takeover of what a country, which has journeyed through crucibles
that at one time, now long ago, resulted in a reckoning - and in some instances
a raw awakening - of what it meant to be a nation, under God, indivisible, with
justice, truth and liberty as its Constitutional aspirations, a scene from one
of my favorite movies, "Now Voyager", came to mind. The movie centers
around the transformation of its key character from a severe psychological and
emotional breakdown - a mental state that grew more intense over dozens of years into an
independent, confident woman who rescues another young girl from a similar
fate. When the mental health doctor first encounters the key character in her
home that is ruled by an emotionless dictator mother, he is confronted by the
dictatorial matron. Her heartlessness, devoid of any motherly love, is a force
to be reckoned with; she shaped her child based on her own devaluing,
restrictive societal upbringing, infusing her own dysfunction and harm onto and
into her daughter's psyche. She decries her daughter's situation and accounts
it as the conduct of a disobedient and stubborn child; the mother is oblivious
to her daughter's repeated humiliation by her and others which has chipped away
at her self-worth and value most of her life. The daughter abruptly leaves the
scene sobbing uncontrollably. The dictator mother proudly states that her upper
crust family has never had anyone suffer what the doctor was calling a nervous
breakdown. The doctor replied soberly, "Well, you are witnessing one right
now."
Watching the news is an activity that I have had to sharply curb because of the
visual and audio reports relating in detail the systematic breakdown of this
nation which we are witnessing right now - it is happening right before our own
eyes. It is an unnerving breakdown, shaped by a dictatorial group of leaders
whose mission seems to be make the white and wealthy great again. Like the
dictatorial matron in the movie, these callous leaders are clawing away at the
core of our dignity - the U.S. Constitution, and replacing it with a magna
carta called Project 2025. They are draining the government and the country of
any talent that would offset their scheme of MWWGA, abusing power bestowed upon
them when they vowed before the world to protect the welfare and freedoms of
all citizens of this country. The movement has euthanized moral sensibilities;
justifying its incomprehensible 'strategies' that further demoralize humanity,
robbing taxpaying citizens of government supported healthcare options and
adding mandates severely reducing the option and availability of preventative
measures that save lives. That characterizes persons (taxpaying adults and
children) who do not speak English as a native language, and even some who do,
as evil criminals - even those in preschool, primary grades, in church pews on
their knees, in eateries cleaning and prepping, serving patrons, in hospitals
and healthcare centers that perform janitorial and maintenance services so that
medical workers can focus on patient care, surrounding and invading residences
where non-English speaking or ESL persons reside, placing them in detention
centers and/or deporting them to countries for imprisonment or worse, which
makes our incarceration and relegation of Japanese Americans in WWII look like
royal treatment, invoking terror, hatred and vitriol from the growing
conscience-seared population that has lost the capacity to differentiate
between good and evil - I could go on and on and on... but the 'gear' of this movement
continues stuck in reverse, and those that get in its way will be rolled over
just like the tanks which in a few days will parade down the streets of Washington D.C., breaking
up the asphalt and concrete as millions upon millions of dollars of taxpayer
money disappear in this display of authoritarianism. For the military forces to
display its armory in a supposed time of peace is unsettling, and recalls the
tactics of dictators and would-be dictators of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In the movie, the key character spends several weeks in a pastoral setting, far
enough away from the humanity-eroding dictatorial mother, where she is
re-shaped with help from a caring doctor and who discovers the value of her own
humanity and subsequently over time, recovers from the damage done from decades
of having her humanity erased from words and actions imposed by her mother. The
nervous breakdown heals, and like any major harm to body and mind, she retains
the scars reminding her of the ashes from which she arose.
Sadly, in our nonfiction circumstance that worsens daily, it will take much
more than a few weeks in a pastoral setting to right the wrongs that may
eventually implode the nation if not halted. There is no guarantee that this
country will be able to come back from this in our generation or the next. Our
literally fearless leaders - leaders wearing blinders and dark glasses that
only allow them to see a horizon of a certain ubiquitous future MWWA-Garden of
Eden plan built on fear, greed, murder and hatred, oblivious to the destruction
of the foundation upon which this country has tried to evolve. Can we come back
from a mortal blow to that foundation? If the attack is left unchecked by those
who are supposed to be the guardians, who seemingly have left the building or
are hiding in the crevices behind closed doors so that they hear no evil or see
no evil, how can a country come back from that? What permanent damage can
happen?
The perpetrators/leaders actually believe that they do not have to answer to
the highest authority for anything they do - despite their 'vows' made to God
and the American people; the same is true of those who aid and abet this
egregious scheme. But they will have to answer - we all will. There will be no
place to hide. They will be removed from their fake Garden and will face the
consequences of their actions in ways they could not have imagined in their
imagined dreams. Those actions will leave many of us high and dry, without recourse. Some of us will die in the midst of the evil schemes that have already impacted this country, is putting some out of business because of the insanity of hiking the tariffs that 100% place a huge financial burden on manufacturing, industrial firms, and the like. We will need to change all of our political anthems; a runner up to fill that gap is the song by Ray Charles (a man of color and blind=DEIx2). "Them That Got"?
