#MondayThoughts: It’s syncing it up with the reality that’s the problem.
It’s sunny, and a beautiful day in Chicago, but for the masked thugs with guns intimidating people and arresting them based on “how they look.”
They have to be breaking state laws in the process.
Before we get on to wherever it is we’re going, thank you Bev (!) for saying something kind and Deb (!) for the very much appreciated coffee. The attack on free speech is definitely working, I do have to wonder if my words in my small, quiet bit of internet are now a danger to me. Thank you for your encouragment.
And now Monday.
All of it is happening. donald is trying to send National Guard into Portland, Oregon over the objection of the governor, who has sued. As another state where he keeps threatening military deployment, it’s a chilling development in a sea of them.
I feel the obligation, as the drumbeat blame of Democrats starts up again, to point out that republicans have within them the power to stop all of this. They could stand up for the Constitution, for the rights of Americans, for the rule of law, and use their congressional power to rein in the executive branch.
That’s why they have it.
And when the government shuts down, they are the ones with the power to prevent it. Not Democrats.
Republicans.
And they better get to it, because I suspect a number of them are, a this point, concerned for their safety.
Use it while you’ve got it, folks because when it’s gone, it’s gone, and you’ll be on the enemies list too.
As I sit here, the sun shining, my street, at least, quiet, it is difficult to fully take in where we are, where things have already gone, where they could yet go. I know in the intellectual part of my brain.
It’s syncing it up with reality that’s the problem.
Anyway, this small splinter of what’s going through my head this morning is all I seem to be able to pull together, the rest is too diffuse, and perhaps, too scary. It’s not longer academic.
It’s no longer a warning, but an observation.
Regardless, I hope you have a great Monday, as we figure out how to muddle through.
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