Breaking Point

I wonder when we’ll reach the breaking point. I wonder what national outrage is necessary for us to realize that the very soul of their country is being destroyed with a relentlessness that can only be deemed planned and organized. The fate and future of the nation is being altered daily, as Trump and his cohorts chip away at the very essence of what it is to be an American.
We are seeing nepotism so blatant it should bring us out into the streets in protest, and yet most of us (me included) are content to issue a few Facebook blasts and consider ourselves activists.
We have watched allies betrayed and tyrants embraced.
We have allowed the destruction of families seeking refuge, and the imprisonment and death of children in detention camps.
We have paid taxes when the richest have not.
We have accepted blatant liars as national spokespersons.
We have shrugged away murders and the invasion of friendly nations by ruthless enemies unworthy of our respect and yet lauded by the White House.
We buy bulletproof backpacks for our school age-sons and daughters but our children continue to be shot daily. We have somehow decided this is acceptable in light of the second amendment.
We are witnessing a war against the environment. Public lands—national treasures—are given to logging, drilling and mining that strip the land, foul the air and pollute the oceans.
We endorse the creation of a Space Force when the fight for survival is here on Earth.
The president denigrates public servant who have spent a lifetime making the country stronger while he has a spent a lifetime weakening it by suborning its laws, evading taxes, and instigating one cover-up after another. He ridicules the physically hampered, and bullies a teen-aged girl whose social awareness dwarfs his. He has belittled women and insulted the parents of soldiers killed in action. He is an American Nero, fanning the fire of those too ignorant to see through his schemes.
We have decided racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, sexual assaults, hate filled rhetoric, and ‘alternate facts’ are acceptable.
We praise ignorance.
We embrace apathy.
We are marching backwards.
How much longer? I truly believe time is running out. I fear the impeachment proceedings will be corrupted by Republicans whose morals have been suborned by power and money.
I love this country. It welcomed my parents and me many decades ago, and I am the progeny of the American dream.
If right now I sound panicked, it’s because I am.