JOYFUL PIECE #157

The time is now

The GOP, The Heritage Foundation, the POTUS supporters, spent years planning for the demolition of American institutions that are too numerous to list.

For the last 18 months, our American system of government has suffered under the wrecking ball of the POTUS and his minions. Only the oligarchs and businesses plundering our ailing planet have benefited.

Neither Congress nor SCOTUS has measured up to their duties as outlined in the Constitution— they are focused on minutiae as we bear the devastation on every value we felt was sacrosanct under the broad banner of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The POTUS regime has snuffed out life, directly and indirectly, in the US and abroad. Those Americans that value liberty and speak out in its defense have been persecuted, ostracized, and demeaned by the POTUS and his regime. The pursuit of happiness has at times seemed to be evaporating through the actions of the totalitarian regime in power.

But things are changing.

The deep dysfunction within the POTUS regime indicates that the Tower of Babel is collapsing on the Executive Branch. The US Executive branch is no longer a credible force for stability within the nation and the world community. The failure to support the United Nations; the battering of solid alliances such as NATO; the illegal, and unconstitutional devastating attacks on Venezuela and Iran; the consequential, expected proliferation of nuclear arms in response to POTUS’ belligerence against Iran; the heartless persecution of helpless migrants within the US and abroad; the continuing weakening of the economy; all signal the end days of this regime.

What do we do as we await the impending transformation of the USA as we know it?

We dwell not on rebuilding what was and got us here.

We take to heart the lessons that we have learned in allowing our constitutional values built over 250 years to be violated. We reinforce the human values that each major religion carries at its core: compassion, justice, mercy. We look at the rubble of these GOP years and pick the salvageable while planning for a future of opportunity for all, for all Americans, for all the world’s creatures.

And as we look at what needs to be done, we plan with joyful hearts, the noble hearts at the core of the American people, and seek consensus in the kind of future that young Americans deserve, the young Americans that are coming to voting age and looking for solutions that status quo political parties have failed to deliver.

Look joyfully to the future. A future free of the corruption that daily drowns our public life, such as the Epstein scandal. Continue to resist even as the last ill-fitting stones of this tower of babel collapse on the would-be-emperor and his court.

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Image credit: The Tower of Babel by Maarten van Heemskerck, 1567, photo by Statens Museum for Kunst, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, image adjusted for clarity. The author died in 1574, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.