Look No Further than the Mirror

I’ve been watching many sources of news trying to get a balanced feed of information. I’ve come to the conclusion that near one hundred percent of the people covering events are in agreement. We are in some very strange times, maybe even unprecedented and I think the majority of people are unclear of how to deal with the conspiracy mega-nuts being fueled by the supreme mega-nuts such as Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green, Sean Hannity, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and of course the head of them all, the super nut Trump. Throw in a routinely idiotic Rand Paul and you have the make-up of the new crazy train party hiding and hijacking the GOP party in the process. You have the bleeding hearts on the other side that still believe you can deal with these people through conscience and diplomacy and that they have the recipe for an effective approach of dealing with a country headed for another civil war. Problem is the loud mouths, coincidentally the minority, are calling for this craziness and are getting a clearly defined fringe populace stepping forward to speak against their feelings of being the outcasts and their desire to no longer be the fringe lunatics that most of them are.   

These lunatics are coming from out of the wood works and, in a sense, they feel they have religion on their side due to their radical interpretations of the bible. Most of you know where I stand on the bible and my belief that one has to look at things written in the bible and try to bring thoughts forward to present day and out of the Middle East. To hang your hat on the word from men that felt inspired by God is noble but is also ill-fated. No where in the bible, outside of maybe the ten commandments, is there word written in the hand of God. The bible was a book written to inspire men and women to be good pillars of the earth and not to be whack jobs using a book to support radical ideas and interpretations.

Abortion is probably the hottest contested topic in America. We have the Supreme Court about to rule on a forty-nine-year constitutional law and if you believe the leaked opinion, we will soon see Roe V. Wade overturned. Many didn’t believe the outbreak of constitutional rights challenges that will fall as a result, but those self-righteous lunatics are already laying gameplans to overturn contraceptive rights, banning abortions of any kind and no matter the reason, defunding adoptions facilities, reducing or eliminating voting rights for women and minorities, and the list goes on.

Throw in a war started by the ultimate evil dictator that in most cases would unite the country in the name of protecting the basis of democracy, but that is even getting lost the longer it goes on. I think that is exactly what Putin wants and when it no longer is the headline, then he will ramp up his evil attempts to take over what is not his, but he desires. Now Finland, feeling threatened by Russia, has moved to become a member of NATO. Putin is now threatening all out nuclear war as a result. Every time Putin makes threats, I’m reminded of the bully that always gets what he wants until someone rises up and punches him in the nose. That is exactly what Ukraine is doing now. But if that war loses focus, I fear Putin will again get what he wants. We are fearful of the madman, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if we rose up as a united front and came at Russia as a force instead of as a humanitarian aid, that they would back down. He doesn’t have the support of his own people, so unless he was in total control of the nuclear missiles, then I suspect there would be a major coo.

I feel so overwhelmed by all of the chaos. That feeling of being helpless, but also knowing that if you could step forward that you might help, but yet don’t. I feel like I just want to close my eyes and make it go away. I don’t want to do anything. I want to be retired and enjoy my life of pleasuring myself with those things we didn’t allow ourselves to have nor enjoy throughout our working life. We didn’t want the distraction of fun things interfering with the job. Now I don’t want all those things external to impact me at home. I will vote and voice my opinion and pray for the best. I hope we come out of this recession and inflation like most times in the past where the markets accelerated beyond record highs of the past to create a new level we point to as the normal position of the market. We will be ok, we have more than most and certainly enough to enjoy life as long as others don’t feel obligated to take a piece of our pie. I hope people turn out and vote this fall. Not going the way of the normal change in party control of the government would be a refreshing result. Watching Trump pay for his crimes of trying to overthrow the government to support his inability to deal with losing would be a win. We can only hope that he will continue his losing streak and that he takes the freakshow carnival sideshow with him. I feel that not only do some of the people striving to be everything we don’t want, impose will on others that don’t want their misguided deeds, make minority decisions that impact the majority, and to have them all look in the mirror to realize their reflection is what’s wrong in the world. I also hope those feeling they have the sanctity in answer, push the majority opinion to control on the minority, and if they win and retain control in the government, that they also look in their mirrors and realize giving some ground in those solutions would be for the better of most all. Mostly, I want to look in the mirror and know that I am serving Jen and myself to provide the best version life we can have. I’m hopeful that the image reflected back to any of us is not a fantasy world or some form of alternate universe, but instead reflects the hopefulness of life we could all have. Maybe I should just wake up to the reality that there may not be any hope and that we may have to fight to live and enjoy what is rightfully ours. I have never given up in my life, so looking in the mirror, I’m reminding myself that I alone control my story and I write the narrative of my own happiness.