Together We Stand, Divided Who Knows?

It's been a while since I sat down and attempted to make some sense of the situation in America today. I have traveled to several countries and most of the fifty states in the United States and never have I seen anything that remotely compares to the present danger we are facing.

You might say, "Willie don't be so hysterical!" But my hysteria is not the problem. The problem is that we have a former president of the United States who after losing. the Presidential Election in 2020 one candidate (Donald J. Trump) set a plan in motion that no doubt had been in the works four years earlier in the event that he lost to Hillary Clinton. The difference between the two elections is that in 2016 Russia did a masterful job of launching a disinformation campaign that targeted the very states that Trump would eventually try to nullify the votes from in 2020. The difference being that in 2020 people were "Woke" to the shenanigans of Russia and came out in droves to prevent this Putin acolyte from serving a second term. 

A man who was documented as telling in excess of 30,00 lies to the American people while serving as their president is no doubt nearing that number as a former president. I emphasize "Former President" because this wannabe tyrant set up a mock Oval Office in his Mar-A-Logo Estate and demands that his employees continue to call him "Mr. President." If that's not enough, some news outlets and political pundits still to this day call him "The President."

My purpose in challenging your thought processes is not to convince you of the danger of re-electing the man but to point out that we as a society have become num to the constant avalanche of misinformation fed to us on a daily basis by those who know the truth but report the lies anyway. I understand that ratings are important to a network and reporting on Trump 24 hours a day 7 days a week keeps them competitive in the Neilsen Ratings but at what cost? I believe it could be the cost of no longer having a functional democracy.

Take a look at this photo. It says, "Never Surrender." This is a mugshot of Donald J. Trump after he surrendered himself to the Fulton County Jail in late August after he and 18 codefendants were indicted by the county's District Attorney Fani Willis for interfering in the vote count in Georgia following the 2020 Election. Not only is the poster depicting a lie it is being sold to citizens of the United States to raise fund for Trum's legal defense.

My focus now is on these citizens of the United States who would be so gullible as to send their hard-earned money (Or, easy earned if you have passive income) to a professional grifter. These people are not all stupid. Some are your preachers, elders and deacons at your church. Some are your neighbors and relatives who say they love this country and only wants what's best for it. Some are innocent senior citizens who would support anyone who claims to be a Republican as long as they totally annihilate and Democrat who has the nerve to oppose the in a general election. You see, the Benghazi Hearings were not to find out the truth but were an attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton. If the Republican Party were really interested in corruption by government officials, they would-be investigating Jared Kushner and the two billion dollars he got from Saudia Arabia instead of worrying about what's in Hunter Biden's laptop.

When a group of people put blinders on and ignore truthful facts right in front of their face, you can only describe this willful ignorance as "A Cult." Yes, a cult where the Speaker of the House of Representatives is a willing participant and just like Trump has no regard for the oath, he took to uphold the Constitution. It now an "Us against Them" as it was during the Civil War when American citizens declared war on American citizen because of a political ideology. Difference being these cult followers have AR-15's and a willingness to use them as demonstrated in the numerous mass shootings and the insurrection on 1-6-2021. 

People around the world are wondering, "What happened to America?" They just like you know the answer. What they should be asking is, "Will America Solve This Problem?" I'm not a prophet and do not claim to have the answer. But, as Abraham quoted from the Bible when he said, "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand," we have a choice. Will you work to preserve our Democracy or will you with blinders on follow a cult?