"....it's still the law of the land, and I intend to obey it!" Charlie Cotchipee, "Purlie Victorious" by Ossie Davis

 

Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, lion-killing dentists, a letter from our Congressional Rep. Buddy Carter explaining why the Supreme Court has abused their power—are there enough things to be enraged about today?  I’m not sure I have the energy. 

I think it’s clear that the majority of people, at least those who still have a few functional brain cells, think those mentioned are at least not quite getting it.  To bring back a really old and horrible metaphor, the lunatics are running the asylum.  Certainly that would be the case if Trump got elected to any it political office ever.  Bill Cosby seems to be finally out of excuses and as for his wife, as we say in the South, “Bless her”!  I can’t even read about the Great White Hunter, literally makes me so ill I push it away.  No way ever to justify killing beautiful animals for no reason on earth whatsoever. 

Our elected representative to Congress is another matter.  Obviously, I did not vote for him.  While I was tickled to see Jack Kingston disappear, I’m afraid his replacement is not much of an improvement.  In his letter today he proved himself worthy of the name Republican.  In his letter I received today he actually said, and I quote “…I worry that people with the same belief as me, that marriage is between one man and one woman, will be targets for discrimination”.  He goes on to let me know that he and “129 other Bipartisan House Members” are co-sponsoring H.R. 2802, the “First Amendment Defense Act”.  This will prevent the Federal government from “discriminating against any individual or group based on their beliefs in the conventional and biblical definition of marriage”. 

Yes, you read that right.  An act to defend the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.  To refresh our collective memories, this is the First Amendment:  “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”  Pretty unambiguous to me.  I think it was, as the rest of the document, designed to be pretty broad and all-encompassing.  Sounds to me like it pretty much covers anyone believing anything at any time which I think just might include those set-upon traditionally married folks. 

I suppose I will answer my Congressman who also tells me what an honor it is to serve the First District of Georgia.  I suppose I should be glad he’s not Donald Trump.  Or Bill Cosby.  Or a lion-killing dentist.  On the other hand, he’s a member of Congress who doesn’t respect the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Trash the Trump

                                                     
            

Our country has an unfortunate tendency to glorify criminals and crazy evil people.  The worst the crime, the more publicity.  The worst of the criminals disappear from the public eye when they die but others seem to pop up time and time again as long as they live (i.e., O.J. Simpson, Charles Manson).  They seem to generate as much interest as the Karhashian of your choice.   Then we have the weirdos who generate inordinate amounts of publicity by virtue of their weirdness, such as Caitlyn Jenner and Donald Trump. 

It really only concerns me when that individual potentially has some power.  We, the voting and Facebook reading public, feed this power every time we read, re-post or respond to a post.  Trump should remain a bad joke and nothing more.  Why can’t we realize that WE are the root of these looney tunes having whatever power they possess?  Think about it. 

Why comment and repeat every idiot racist thing Trump, Cruz, Huckabee and the entire car full of Republican clowns utters?  There are plenty of intelligent folks out there that we could be reading and quoting.  As I heard on NPR, Trump is the flavor of the month.  I prefer the flavors of Baskin-Robbins to the Republican version.  Take note that Democrats don’t afford the public the opportunity to bash people so regularly.  That is worth repeating.  Hillary and Bernie just aren’t that funny.  I for one am thankful for that.

Actually it’s not that funny when you think about it.  Accusing an entire category of people as being murdering rapist criminals is not really amusing.  Accusing our President of being a racist terrorist doesn’t produce a chuckle.  Yes, it’s ridiculous to think our President is planning a military takeover of Texas—but funny?  Not so much.

If we are going to respond to the political clowns it needs to be with serious discourse with people who are capable of understanding.  Let’s begin by taking ourselves seriously (and by ourselves I mean people who are grounded in reality) and proceeding with the confidence that we are the one to maintain the leadership of our nation.

I am hereby starting a movement to remove Donald Trump from our Facebook pages.  Will you join?
(and yes, I'm aware that by writing this I violated my own movement, but this is the last and with the ugliest caricature I could find!)