June 18, 2018

Good writing at High 5, heroic weeding in the AM. Then, too much reading of Facebook, where, after a very little while, outrage begins to weaken the spirit. We have a President who lies literally every time he opens his mouth, who works actively to undermine the safety and reputation of the United States, who has spent his high office crippling Democracy, destroying the environment, making a burlesque of the Presidency, increasing the suffering of the poor, polluting the purity of the spoken word, alienating those who wished us well, elevating the perverse, mocking the patriot, and finding ways to enrich himself and his sickening family; who is a traitor in original and constant collusion with an enemy power, who has destroyed a once-great political party by making it an accessory in every unforgivable crime– and yet he is still President. I can’t find a way of dealing with this. I write a little or do some weeding, have a cocktail, come back and a soulless would-be Hitler is STILL President, despite the fact that he has done none of these things in secret. His only evident virtue is the arrogance which allows his trespasses to remain transparent.. Yes, I understand there are people who think he’s doing a great job, and, not knowing them, I cannot add them to the list of evil, but surely to the rolls of the deluded, to say that they are wrong, objectively, permanently, without–now–legitimate excuse.  Down is not up, chaos is not order, the world is not flat, cruelty is not necessary no matter what life experience you may have had, no matter how much your college-boy neighbor infuriates you, no matter that your sainted daddy hated dark people and loved the flag, no matter how sincerely, even religiously, you hold to these opinions, you are wrong and must stand to one side, silent. No? Then look at videos of the “good” Germans who were made to bury the dead in the concentration camps in 1945, who knew what was happening and let it happen. That is your fate.