Jake Volt & I Team Up To Get This Off Our Respective Chests
Today he posted this on Facebook. It was almost like he was reading my mind, because I was thinking about coming at this from virtually the same angle as Jake.
So here we go, Jake does all the heavy lifting here, all I do is agree.
Jake’s Post
Jake Volt
Things we teach our kids:
• Play fair
• Don’t lie
• Own your mistakes}
• Tell the truth
• Don’t make excuses
• Say sorry
• Don’t blame others
• Never bully
• Don’t be a sore loser
• Do be a gracious winner
• Don’t mock people who are different than you
• Keep your promises
• Don’t cheat
• Spell correctly (p)
• Don’t call people names
• Keep your hands off of other peoples’ body parts
I don’t have access to Republican leaders. And why would they listen to me anyways? They have their plans and they're sticking to their ideology. They’re politicians. While I don’t agree, I certainly understand.
But most of them are also parents and grandparents who likely believe in and have preached the list above. However, if they continue to tacitly (or worse, explicitly) support a president who has publicly broken each and every one of the above axioms, they’ve lost the moral authority to teach them to their own or America’s children.
And it will be difficult for all parents as long as ’45’ is at the helm without being held to account.
My Comment:
Me
This is excellent and something I was thinking about myself this morning as I was looking a pic of my own grandchildren.
The situation in the US is nothing short of pure insanity. The Republican party is terrified of being torn apart by the hate mongering, dishonesty and racism of this administration.
They are also torn between trying to keep the band-aid securely on the huge gash the Drumph has made and their own re-election.
As time goes by and the insanity grows weirder and weirder, (which it will) it will be much easier for them to withdraw their support, because it will be much more politically prudent vis a vis their own re-election as more and more of their constituents turn against the administration and all the fascist tactics they are employing.
In a strange way all this craziness should (hopefully) force a necessary implosion in the Republican party from which they can rebuild based on the axiom that the Tea Party stance was just unworkable, so let’s not do that again.
This of course will entail not just getting rid of the Drumph and all his goons, but also McConnell and Ryan as well. That’s the only chance the party has right now.
I am no longer surprised by anything I see or hear from the Drumph. He is a vile little demon and he always has been. But every crazy accusation he makes erodes his credibility to an ever increasing degree.
He has also almost completely neglected or refused to deal with or has no idea how to deal with the real needs of the country, because he is spending pretty much all his time with petty crap and late night tweet rants. This is what genuinely small-minded, narcissistic people do.
Piece by piece all the organizations that he needs to have on his side are turning against him. He thinks he can rule by executive order because that’s what his pal Putin does.
But America is not Russia. And the Drumph is no Putin. And this road he has put himself on is a dead end.
The bottom line is that you cannot govern a country when you do all things that my friend Jake outlined above.
And when the only concern you really have is what’s in it for you.
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