A Virtual Church

You gotta be kidding

9:00 p.m. yesterday

We let the East Wing of the White House be demolished and are allowing the building of a Mar a Lago style ballroom in its place. We watched a helicopter pad be built on the front lawn of the White House. At least it is multi-functional… it can also be used as entertaining spaces for cocktails on the front lawn.

The latest folly of Dear Donald is a Formula One race track around the quad in Washington. Blocking off the streets from the Lincoln Memorial, around the algae riddled Reflecting pool and back to the Lincoln Memorial are complete lunacy.

Donald bragged about starting the race with the green flag. Engines on. Ready. Set. Go!

Makes you feel proud, doesn’t it?

It is heartbreaking to watch flag draped coffins of young men who have sacrificed their lives in the same time frame as prices rise on gas and groceries. All thanks to Trump.

The disasters are mounting. Nobody is stepping forth to stop him. Something is wrong in America. We are wandering in a desert without a Moses to lead us out.

Congress is castrated by the visceral fear of evoking the wrath of Donald’s revenge.

From where I sit in the cheap seats, I see a fool supported by sycophants who are scared. Of what? An 80-year-old man, fat on cheeseburgers and soft drinks, proving that cruelty and stupidity are a bad combination for someone who is supposed to be leader of the free world.

That is changing. NATO neighbors are finding courage and voice that our congress has lost. Chickens cannot run a country.

If Donald is not running the country, who is? Stephen Miller, Susie Wiles, Mike Johnson. A Republican congress that has lost its courage. This is not the A-Team that will bring us back from the grip of the authoritarian regime in which our democracy is transitioning.

The Constitution and the Rule of Law are not our bedrock anymore. Voters bought a pipe dream. They were betrayed and beguiled by a charlatan, who embodies the old snake-oil salesman. All of us are paying the price for the choices of those who felt cheated of the American Dream.

How is that working for you now?

Democracy is gasping for breath while Donald plays fast and loose with our future.

He is getting nervous about mid-term elections. He will be in deep trouble if Democrats take the congress and several state governments. He is hoping to win by creating doubt with the election process.

Republican legislatures have done such severe gerrymandering, a Democratic win would be quite a coup. But a coup is what we need.

Our only chance out of the Trump mess is to elect Democrats… whatever you think about Democrats. We are not that bad.

We don’t have all the answers, and the pendulum does not have to swing that far to set the ship of state aright.

Voting the MAGA crowd out is our biggest and maybe our only hope. Trump would do himself a favor to resign. His narcissism will not allow him to consider it. The cheeseburgers will catch up with him sooner or later. They do that to all of us.

He’d rather take us down, making us poorer, sicker and more depressed, than give up his delusions of grandeur. We cannot lose heart or our resolve to resist this movement to the far right. As Barney Fife used to say, we need to “nip it in the bud.”

Race on, Donald, there is a finish line in your future.  

Lib Campbell is a retired Methodist pastor, retreat leader, columnist, and host of the blogsite Avirtualchurch.com. She can be contacted at libcam05@gmail.com. 

 

 

 

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