We know that people die all the time and often for unjust and desperate reasons, but when we must look at specific people, particularly attached enough to die together, it's close to unbearable. Someone was prompted to post a reference tweet with the bodies of holocaust victims but the reaction was not about the people. It was about the propriety of posting the photo. Some will say the photo of the drowned father and daughter should not have been printed. Some will act as though the media drowned them in order to take their picture.
Happier times
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/26/father-daughter-who-drowned-border-dove-into-river-desperation/?utm_term=.d36075f8d35a
Turning away, not knowing, is a strategy for self-protection but it prevents getting hold of facts, killing the potential for change. When what is hidden is double -- on the one hand killing people who come for help and offer work energy to a country that needs it, and on the other hand insane leaders. It's pretty much obvious to most of us that Trump is not just unbalanced but simply nuts. At first no one expected this, except that as soon as he was elected and we saw him so often on videos, we began to get clues. I have a wicked feeling that if George Washington were alive today, he'd simply shoot Donald Trump. If Trump were shot on 5th Avenue and left to lie there, would anyone notice?
Does no one read the news deeply enough past the sports section to notice that some oppressive dictator recently was killed by his bodyguards? But Trump is an auto-assassin.
The joke has been that the reason Pence is the VP is so we won't be tempted to get rid of Trump -- because Pence will be worse. Are we about to find out? This guy who is so gullible and out of it? It's not that he's a Christian, but that he's so wedged into the dead-end of the dogma, where it overlaps with the Flat Earth Society.
It's almost a relief that the president is so clearly consumed by hatred and fantasy. I'm a little curious about the media interviewer and her producers who let him just rant and rave. I guess they know it will mean a lot of attention. Maybe they relish watching -- or rather hearing -- someone so thoroughly bonkers. They couldn't possibly think he was sane, could they? Are there no crazy drunks in their lives so that they know that only a disturbed person could be so possessed?
The most obvious thing to do is take care of ourselves. I find myself alarmed, full of terrifying possibilities, back to a time when the world was being consumed by such people. I'm paralyzed and not out raking up the yard or sorting the laundry. The daily seems so inappropriate when an old man with so much power clearly needs medical care. He's not just evil, he's sick. His brain is not working. Many have already said that if he were related to them, they would get him to a neurologist as quickly as possible. His own children are too afraid of losing their money to take care of the source.
Writing this thousand word post is a self-imposed goal. I think I'll let myself off the hook until things develop a little more. I started a piece about why there is currently so much interest in fathers and their daughters, almost more plots and testimonies about them than the traditional romances between sort-of equals. One is supposed to be safe in the arms of one's father, right? But the Fatherland is never really safe.
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